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Construction & Extraction · Updated Aug 2026

Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers

Assemble, install, repair, or maintain electric or hydraulic freight or passenger elevators, escalators, or dumbwaiters.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
AI Exposure
37/100
Low

How much of this occupation’s work can be materially affected by current AI systems.

Replacement Risk
36/100
Low

How likely exposure is to translate into reduced human demand.

Includes provisional estimates for AI adoption pressure and labour-market resilience. How this is measured

Evidence quality
Confidence81/100
Task coverage86%

Confidence reflects task coverage, mapping and capability-evidence quality, and how much of the score rests on provisional inputs.

Task-level evidence

What is driving the score?

Occupation scores are built from the task mix—not a single prediction about a job title.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
TaskImportanceAI impactExposure
Adjust safety controls, counterweights, door mechanisms, and components such as valves, ratchets, seals, and brake linings.High
68
Check that safety regulations and building codes are met, and complete service reports verifying conformance to standards.High
68
Locate malfunctions in brakes, motors, switches, and signal and control systems, using test equipment.High
63
Read and interpret blueprints to determine the layout of system components, frameworks, and foundations, and to select installation equipment.High
47
Inspect wiring connections, control panel hookups, door installations, and alignments and clearances of cars and hoistways to ensure that equipment will operate properly.High
33
Connect electrical wiring to control panels and electric motors.High
66
Operate elevators to determine power demands, and test power consumption to detect overload factors.High
47
Maintain log books that detail all repairs and checks performed.High
15
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.High
14
Disassemble defective units, and repair or replace parts such as locks, gears, cables, and electric wiring.High
13
Test newly installed equipment to ensure that it meets specifications, such as stopping at floors for set amounts of time.High
20
Assemble electrically powered stairs, steel frameworks, and tracks, and install associated motors and electrical wiring.High
13
Install electrical wires and controls by attaching conduit along shaft walls from floor to floor and pulling plastic-covered wires through the conduit.High
14
Assemble elevator cars, installing each car's platform, walls, and doors.High
13
Most exposed

Where AI can do more

Routine, digitized, and highly repeatable tasks face the greatest pressure.

  1. Adjust safety controls, counterweights, door mechanisms, and components such as valves, ratchets, seals, and brake linings.68
  2. Check that safety regulations and building codes are met, and complete service reports verifying conformance to standards.68
  3. Connect electrical wiring to control panels and electric motors.66
  4. Locate malfunctions in brakes, motors, switches, and signal and control systems, using test equipment.63
Hardest to automate

Where people still matter

These tasks score lowest on automation feasibility—physical presence, judgement, accountability and real-world variability all resist end-to-end automation.

  1. 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.01
  2. Disassemble defective units, and repair or replace parts such as locks, gears, cables, and electric wiring.02
  3. Assemble electrically powered stairs, steel frameworks, and tracks, and install associated motors and electrical wiring.03
  4. Assemble elevator cars, installing each car's platform, walls, and doors.04
  5. Maintain log books that detail all repairs and checks performed.05
Where else this work leads

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Beyond AI capability

Adoption and labour-market outlook

Structural factors are kept separate from raw capability so you can see what actually resists automation. Adoption pressure and labour-market resilience are still provisional models—25% of this occupation’s replacement-risk weight rests on them.

Human dependency78
Physical dependency54
Adoption pressure47
Labour-market resilience78
Methodology & sources

O*NET 30.3 occupational data interpreted through the JobsVsAI capability, automation and structural-constraint models.

Confidence81/100
CalculatedAug 21, 2026
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