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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

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

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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