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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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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