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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Water Quality Technician” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Water Quality Technician” 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 Quality Technician” 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.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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