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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Paint Formulator” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Paint 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%

“Paint 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

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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