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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.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • 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.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • 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.

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

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

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