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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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

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

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