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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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • 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.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

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