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First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers
Directly supervise and coordinate activities of construction or extraction workers.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Inspect work progress, equipment, or construction sites to verify safety or to ensure that specifications are met.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Read specifications, such as blueprints, to determine construction requirements or to plan procedures.People already use AI for this at work
- 03Supervise, coordinate, or schedule the activities of construction or extractive workers.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Assign work to employees, based on material or worker requirements of specific jobs.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Coordinate work activities with other construction project activities.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Estimate material or worker requirements to complete jobs.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Analyze worker or production problems and recommend solutions, such as improving production methods or implementing motivational plans.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Order or requisition materials or supplies.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Train workers in construction methods, operation of equipment, safety procedures, or company policies.Mostly human for now
- 10Locate, measure, and mark site locations or placement of structures or equipment, using measuring and marking equipment.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 loss3%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
40%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 33% 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 73% 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.
- Train workers in construction methods, operation of equipment, safety procedures, or company policies.