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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.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

  • 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.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

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