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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Formulator Compounder” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Formulator Compounder” 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 Compounder” 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 new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Maintain, clean, or sterilize laboratory instruments or 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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