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Electrical and Electronics Drafters
Prepare wiring diagrams, circuit board assembly diagrams, and layout drawings used for the manufacture, installation, or repair of electrical equipment.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Draft detail and assembly drawings of design components, circuitry or printed circuit boards, using computer-assisted equipment or standard drafting techniques and devices.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Draft working drawings, wiring diagrams, wiring connection specifications, or cross-sections of underground cables, as required for instructions to installation crew.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Assemble documentation packages and produce drawing sets to be checked by an engineer or an architect.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Review completed construction drawings and cost estimates for accuracy and conformity to standards and regulations.People already use AI for this at work
- 05Consult with engineers to discuss or interpret design concepts, or determine requirements of detailed working drawings.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Confer with engineering staff and other personnel to resolve problems.AI could speed this up a lot
- 07Measure factors that affect installation and arrangement of equipment, such as distances to be spanned by wire and cable.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Design electrical systems, such as lighting systems.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Draw master sketches to scale showing relation of proposed installations to existing facilities and exact specifications and dimensions.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Review work orders or procedural manuals and confer with vendors or design staff to resolve problems or modify design.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss9%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
57%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 90% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 35% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.