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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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • 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.

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  • Pull spring balances
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  • Multimeters
  • Face shields
  • Sample crushers
  • Gas leak detectors
  • Vapor monitor badges
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  • Hollow cathode lamps
  • Liquid transfer pumps
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  • Prisms
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  • Lyophilizers
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  • Reflux condensers
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  • Diffusion pumps
  • Lasers
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  • Differential scanning calorimeters
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  • Unequal-arm balances
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  • Laboratory balances
  • Triple beam balances
  • Meker burners
  • Comparators
  • Pycnometers
  • Mercury vapor lamps
  • Safety glasses
  • Cooling baths
  • Bubble flow meters
  • Viscosity meters
  • Bimetallic strip thermometers
  • Drying pistols
  • Rotameters
  • Water aspirators
  • Ionization gauges
  • Photomultiplier tubes
  • Coulometers
  • Utility clamps
  • Fourier transfer infrared FTIR spectrometers
  • High pressure sodium lamps
  • Chromatography developing tanks
  • Constant temperature water baths
  • Agitation tanks
  • Laboratory blenders
  • Transfer pipettes
  • Glass laboratory crucibles
  • Computer-controlled pumps
  • Reaction flasks
  • Mass spectrometers
  • Velometers
  • Deuterium lamps
  • Distilling condensers
  • Radiation detectors
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  • Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry LC/MS equipment
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  • Exhaust hoods
  • Pressure gauges
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  • Aneroid barometers
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  • Differential refractometers
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  • Glass burets
  • Laboratory flasks
  • Evaporating dishes
  • Dissolved oxygen meters
  • Polarizers
  • Heating mantles
  • Automated polarimeters
  • Pirani gauges
  • Fire extinguishers
  • Liquid-filled remote thermometers
  • Titrators
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  • Optical compound microscopes
  • Eyewash fountains
  • Automatic burets
  • Claisen flasks
  • Ultraviolet UV light detectors
  • Beckmann thermometers
  • Magnetic agitators
  • Rotary evaporators
  • Photo detectors
  • Hot air blowers
  • Laboratory heating plates
  • Ball mills
  • Muffle furnaces
  • Safety gloves
  • Westphal balances
  • Ion exchange chromatography equipment
  • Closed-end manometers
  • Gas burners
  • Gooch crucibles
  • Steam baths
  • Infrared lamps
  • Glass tubing
  • Gravity convection ovens
  • Spectrophotometers
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  • Filter pumps
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  • Bunsen burners
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  • Laboratory centrifugal pumps
  • Ultraviolet UV lamps
  • Optical pyrometers
  • Radioisotope fume hoods
  • Liquid chromatography equipment
  • Vacuum gauges
  • Bourdon gauges

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