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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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • 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.

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

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

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