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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.

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • 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.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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