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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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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