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Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers
Assemble, install, repair, or maintain electric or hydraulic freight or passenger elevators, escalators, or dumbwaiters.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Inspect wiring connections, control panel hookups, door installations, and alignments and clearances of cars and hoistways to ensure that equipment will operate properly.Mostly human for now
- 02Assemble, install, repair, and maintain elevators, escalators, moving sidewalks, and dumbwaiters, using hand and power tools, and testing devices such as test lamps, ammeters, and voltmeters.Mostly human for now
- 03Disassemble defective units, and repair or replace parts such as locks, gears, cables, and electric wiring.Mostly human for now
- 04Check that safety regulations and building codes are met, and complete service reports verifying conformance to standards.AI could speed this up a lot
- 05Locate malfunctions in brakes, motors, switches, and signal and control systems, using test equipment.Mostly human for now
- 06Adjust safety controls, counterweights, door mechanisms, and components such as valves, ratchets, seals, and brake linings.Mostly human for now
- 07Read and interpret blueprints to determine the layout of system components, frameworks, and foundations, and to select installation equipment.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Connect car frames to counterweights, using steel cables.Mostly human for now
- 09Maintain log books that detail all repairs and checks performed.AI could speed this up a lot
- 10Connect electrical wiring to control panels and electric motors.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
18%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 14% 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 56% 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 wiring connections, control panel hookups, door installations, and alignments and clearances of cars and hoistways to ensure that equipment will operate properly.
- Assemble, install, repair, and maintain elevators, escalators, moving sidewalks, and dumbwaiters, using hand and power tools, and testing devices such as test lamps, ammeters, and voltmeters.
- Disassemble defective units, and repair or replace parts such as locks, gears, cables, and electric wiring.