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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.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

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

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

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

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