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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.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

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