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Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay
Inspect, test, repair, or maintain electrical equipment in generating stations, substations, and in-service relays.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Inspect and test equipment and circuits to identify malfunctions or defects, using wiring diagrams and testing devices such as ohmmeters, voltmeters, or ammeters.Mostly human for now
- 02Prepare and maintain records detailing tests, repairs, and maintenance.AI could speed this up a lot
- 03Consult manuals, schematics, wiring diagrams, and engineering personnel to troubleshoot and solve equipment problems and to determine optimum equipment functioning.AI could speed this up a lot
- 04Analyze test data to diagnose malfunctions, to determine performance characteristics of systems, or to evaluate effects of system modifications.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Open and close switches to isolate defective relays, performing adjustments or repairs.Mostly human for now
- 06Notify facility personnel of equipment shutdowns.Mostly human for now
- 07Repair, replace, and clean equipment and components such as circuit breakers, brushes, and commutators.Mostly human for now
- 08Run signal quality and connectivity tests for individual cables, and record results.AI could speed this up a lot
- 09Maintain inventories of spare parts for all equipment, requisitioning parts as necessary.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Construct, test, maintain, and repair substation relay and control systems.Mostly human for now
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 lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.Anthropic, 2026
34%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 58% 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 63% 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
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Inspect and test equipment and circuits to identify malfunctions or defects, using wiring diagrams and testing devices such as ohmmeters, voltmeters, or ammeters.
- Open and close switches to isolate defective relays, performing adjustments or repairs.
- Notify facility personnel of equipment shutdowns.