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Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers
Help installation, maintenance, and repair workers in maintenance, parts replacement, and repair of vehicles, industrial machinery, and electrical and electronic equipment. Perform duties such as furnishing tools, materials, and supplies to other workers; cleaning work area, machines, and tools; and holding materials or tools for other workers.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Install or replace machinery, equipment, and new or replacement parts and instruments, using hand or power tools.Mostly human for now
- 02Examine and test machinery, equipment, components, and parts for defects to ensure proper functioning.Mostly human for now
- 03Tend and observe equipment and machinery to verify efficient and safe operation.Mostly human for now
- 04Adjust, connect, or disconnect wiring, piping, tubing, and other parts, using hand or power tools.Mostly human for now
- 05Clean or lubricate vehicles, machinery, equipment, instruments, tools, work areas, and other objects, using hand tools, power tools, and cleaning equipment.Mostly human for now
- 06Hold or supply tools, parts, equipment, and supplies for other workers.Mostly human for now
- 07Diagnose electrical problems and install and rewire electrical components.Mostly human for now
- 08Disassemble broken or defective equipment to facilitate repair and reassemble equipment when repairs are complete.Mostly human for now
- 09Position vehicles, machinery, equipment, physical structures, and other objects for assembly or installation, using hand tools, power tools, and moving equipment.Mostly human for now
- 10Transfer tools, parts, equipment, and supplies to and from work stations and other areas.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
3%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 15% 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 88% 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.
- Install or replace machinery, equipment, and new or replacement parts and instruments, using hand or power tools.
- Examine and test machinery, equipment, components, and parts for defects to ensure proper functioning.
- Tend and observe equipment and machinery to verify efficient and safe operation.