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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Water Analyst” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Water Analyst” 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%

“Water Analyst” 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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • 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.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

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