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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

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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