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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.

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

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

  • 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.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • 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.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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

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