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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Formulation Technician” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Formulation 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%

“Formulation 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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