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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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

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