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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Wet Chemistry Analyst” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Wet Chemistry 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%

“Wet Chemistry 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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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