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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

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

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • 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.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

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