Maintenance and Repair Workers, General
Installation, Maintenance, and RepairAI Impact Assessment
This job is relatively safe from AI automation and may even benefit from AI tools.
Maintenance and Repair Workers, General with an AI automation risk score of 14%. Analysis includes 27 core tasks.
Why This Score?
- Work environment requires human interaction and presence
Responsibilities and Abilities
Key Responsibilities
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
- Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment
- Getting Information
Required Abilities
- Information Ordering
- Arm-Hand Steadiness
- Manual Dexterity
- Near Vision
- Problem Sensitivity
Key Tasks
Align and balance new equipment after installation.
Inspect used parts to determine changes in dimensional requirements, using rules, calipers, micrometers, or other measuring instruments.
Maintain or repair specialized equipment or machinery located in cafeterias, laundries, hospitals, stores, offices, or factories.
Design new equipment to aid in the repair or maintenance of machines, mechanical equipment, or building structures.
Inspect, operate, or test machinery or equipment to diagnose machine malfunctions.
Perform routine maintenance on boilers, such as replacing burners or hoses, installing replacement parts, or reinforcing structural weaknesses to ensure optimal boiler efficiency.
Assemble boilers at installation sites, using tools such as levels, plumb bobs, hammers, torches, or other hand tools.
Install equipment to improve the energy or operational efficiency of residential or commercial buildings.
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Data Sources
Analysis based on O*NET data