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Mechanical Door Repairers
Install, service, or repair automatic door mechanisms and hydraulic doors. Includes garage door mechanics.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Wind large springs with upward motion of arm.Mostly human for now
- 02Complete required paperwork, such as work orders, according to services performed or required.AI could speed this up a lot
- 03Repair or replace worn or broken door parts, using hand tools.Mostly human for now
- 04Fasten angle iron back-hangers to ceilings and tracks, using fasteners or welding equipment.Mostly human for now
- 05Order replacement springs, sections, or slats.Mostly human for now
- 06Carry springs to tops of doors, using ladders or scaffolding, and attach springs to tracks to install spring systems.Mostly human for now
- 07Install door frames, rails, steel rolling curtains, electronic-eye mechanisms, or electric door openers and closers, using power tools, hand tools, and electronic test equipment.Mostly human for now
- 08Adjust doors to open or close with the correct amount of effort, or make simple adjustments to electric openers.Mostly human for now
- 09Set doors into place or stack hardware sections into openings after rail or track installation.Mostly human for now
- 10Assemble and fasten tracks to structures or bucks, using impact wrenches or welding equipment.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
14%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 22% 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 66% 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.
- Wind large springs with upward motion of arm.
- Repair or replace worn or broken door parts, using hand tools.
- Fasten angle iron back-hangers to ceilings and tracks, using fasteners or welding equipment.