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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Color Maker Formulator” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Color Maker Formulator” 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%

“Color Maker Formulator” 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 or conduct programs of sampling and analysis to maintain quality standards of raw materials, chemical intermediates, or products.

  • 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.

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • 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 new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • 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.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • 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.

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

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

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