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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Formulator” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“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%

“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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • 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.

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

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