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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Viscosity Worker” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Viscosity Worker” will maybe be replaced by AI.

Based on the cognitive demands, communication requirements, and logical reasoning intrinsic to this occupation according to O*NET data, we project a 55% probability of disruption by generative AI and Large Language Models.

Automation & Robot Risk

53%

“Viscosity Worker” will maybe be replaced by robots.

Evaluating the physical dexterity, repetitive motion tasks, and manual labor associated with this role, our analysis indicates a 53% likelihood of substitution by advanced robotics systems.

Personal & Financial Insights

Every occupation has a unique profile. For Chemical Technicians, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET classify the day-to-day work broadly as: Conduct chemical and physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative and quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, and gaseous materials for research and development of new products or processes, quality control, maintenance of environmental standards, and other work involving experimental, theoretical, or practical application of chemistry and related sciences.

Avg. Annual Salary $61,300
Avg. Hourly Wage $29.47
Available Jobs (US) 55,640
Job Title & Hierarchy Code (SOC) Chemical Technicians #19-4031
Wage vs. National Median
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Data is based on the reference occupation: “Chemical Technicians”

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Core Skills & Abilities

  • Conduct chemical or physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative or quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, or gaseous materials.

  • Train new employees on topics such as the proper operation of laboratory equipment.

  • Design or fabricate experimental apparatus to develop new products or processes.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Prepare chemical solutions for products or processes, following standardized formulas, or create experimental formulas.

  • Provide and maintain a safe work environment by participating in safety programs, committees, or teams and by conducting laboratory or plant safety audits.

  • Write technical reports or prepare graphs or charts to document experimental results.

  • Maintain, clean, or sterilize laboratory instruments or equipment.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Set up and conduct chemical experiments, tests, and analyses, using techniques such as chromatography, spectroscopy, physical or chemical separation techniques, or microscopy.

  • Develop or conduct programs of sampling and analysis to maintain quality standards of raw materials, chemical intermediates, or products.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Monitor product quality to ensure compliance with standards and specifications.

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  • Desktop computers
  • Laboratory tongs
  • Graphing calculators
  • Glass laboratory crucibles
  • Gas drying tubes
  • Dissolved oxygen meters
  • Ruby lasers
  • Ultracentrifuges
  • Deuterium lamps
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectroscopes
  • Voltmeters
  • Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry LC/MS equipment
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  • Liquid-filled remote thermometers
  • Atomic emissions spectroscopes
  • Capillary tubing
  • Ionization gauges
  • Geiger-Muller counters
  • Prisms
  • Distilling condensers
  • Coulometers
  • Safety glasses
  • Gravitational field indicators
  • Photocells
  • Molecular stills
  • Optical pyrometers
  • Thinlayer chromatography analyzers
  • Volumetric flasks
  • Titrators
  • Rotameters
  • Flame photometers
  • Safety goggles
  • Photo detectors
  • Pull spring balances
  • Canister gas masks
  • Dust and particulate respirators
  • Gravity convection ovens
  • Mercury vapor lamps
  • Fourier transfer infrared FTIR spectrometers
  • Tension gauges
  • Optical beamsplitting devices
  • Closed-end manometers
  • Mercury barometers
  • High pressure sodium lamps
  • Ion exchange chromatography equipment
  • Ultraviolet UV light detectors
  • Lyophilizers
  • Single-pan balances
  • Optical compound microscopes
  • Radioisotope fume hoods
  • Laboratory vacuum pumps
  • Refrigerated coolers
  • Cooling baths
  • Lecture bottles
  • Beckmann thermometers
  • Metering pumps
  • Laboratory centrifugal pumps
  • Buchner funnels
  • Hollow cathode lamps
  • Gas leak detectors
  • Evaporator rotators
  • Hydrometers
  • Mortars and pestles
  • Bubble-cap fractionating columns
  • Reaction flasks
  • Automatic buret cleaners
  • Bell jars
  • Glass burets
  • Meker burners
  • Sample crushers
  • Drying pistols
  • Computer-controlled pumps
  • Ball mills
  • Thermal conductivity detectors
  • Flame ionization detectors FID
  • Evaporating dishes
  • Water aspirators
  • Laboratory pressing equipment
  • Laboratory balances
  • Bunsen burners
  • Digital handheld thermometers
  • Safety showers
  • Bubble flow meters
  • Benchtop centrifuges
  • Thermocouples
  • Eyewash fountains
  • Fluid scintillation counters
  • Monochromators
  • Radiation detectors
  • Laboratory flasks
  • Westphal balances
  • Plastic cuvettes
  • Personal computers
  • Safety gloves
  • Electronic toploading balances
  • Laboratory drying ovens
  • Finger pumps
  • Aneroid barometers
  • Dessicators
  • Multimeters
  • Test tube clamps
  • Diffusion pumps
  • Volumetric glass pipettes
  • Utility clamps
  • Rheometers
  • Pressure gauges
  • Dye lasers
  • Lasers
  • Gooch crucibles
  • Polarimeters
  • Differential refractometers
  • Bomb calorimeters
  • Transfer pipettes
  • Comparators
  • Hot air blowers
  • Photomultiplier tubes
  • Chromatography microsyringes
  • Fluorimeters
  • Vapor monitor badges
  • Viscosity meters
  • Torsion balances
  • Ammeters
  • Glass tubing
  • Gas burners
  • Explosion-proof fume hoods
  • Liquid chromatography equipment
  • Filter pumps
  • McLeod gauges
  • Perchloric acid hoods
  • Magnetic agitators
  • Polarizers
  • Ultraviolet UV spectroscopes
  • Claisen flasks
  • Automated microviscometers
  • Ultraviolet UV lamps
  • Atomic absorption AA spectroscopes
  • Laminar flow burners
  • Laboratory vacuum hand pumps
  • Magnetic stirring bars
  • Muffle furnaces
  • Face shields
  • Autotitrators
  • Heating mantles
  • Reflux condensers
  • Bimetallic strip thermometers
  • Exhaust hoods
  • Hirsch funnels
  • Automated polarimeters
  • Pycnometers
  • Abbe refractometers
  • Liquid transfer pumps
  • Cork borer sets
  • Vacuum flask traps
  • Constant temperature water baths
  • Graphite furnaces
  • Differential scanning calorimeters
  • Nebulizers
  • Automatic burets
  • Pirani gauges
  • Mainframe computers
  • Spectrophotometers
  • Steam baths
  • Agitation tanks
  • Hazardous material protective clothing
  • U-tube manometers
  • Immersion heaters
  • Turbidimeters
  • Infrared IR spectroscopes
  • Unequal-arm balances
  • Fire extinguishers
  • Rotary evaporators
  • Cartesian manostats
  • Volume displacement pumps
  • Velometers
  • Homogenizers
  • Vacuum gauges
  • High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment
  • Asbestos gloves
  • pH indicators
  • Bourdon gauges
  • Triple beam balances
  • Organic carbon analyzers
  • Chromatography developing tanks
  • Mass spectrometers
  • Laboratory heating plates

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