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First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers
Directly supervise and coordinate the activities of mechanics, installers, and repairers. May also advise customers on recommended services. Excludes team or work leaders.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Inspect, test, and measure completed work, using devices such as hand tools or gauges to verify conformance to standards or repair requirements.Mostly human for now
- 02Inspect and monitor work areas, examine tools and equipment, and provide employee safety training to prevent, detect, and correct unsafe conditions or violations of procedures and safety rules.Mostly human for now
- 03Interpret specifications, blueprints, or job orders to construct templates and lay out reference points for workers.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Monitor employees' work levels and review work performance.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Perform skilled repair or maintenance operations, using equipment such as hand or power tools, hydraulic presses or shears, or welding equipment.Mostly human for now
- 06Compute estimates and actual costs of factors such as materials, labor, or outside contractors.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Monitor tool and part inventories and the condition and maintenance of shops to ensure adequate working conditions.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Requisition materials and supplies, such as tools, equipment, or replacement parts.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Confer with personnel, such as management, engineering, quality control, customer, or union workers' representatives, to coordinate work activities, resolve employee grievances, or identify and review resource needs.Mostly human for now
- 10Determine schedules, sequences, and assignments for work activities, based on work priority, quantity of equipment, and skill of personnel.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 loss10%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
41%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 42% 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 53% 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, test, and measure completed work, using devices such as hand tools or gauges to verify conformance to standards or repair requirements.
- Inspect and monitor work areas, examine tools and equipment, and provide employee safety training to prevent, detect, and correct unsafe conditions or violations of procedures and safety rules.
- Perform skilled repair or maintenance operations, using equipment such as hand or power tools, hydraulic presses or shears, or welding equipment.