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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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

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

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