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Installation & Repair · Updated Aug 2026

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.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
AI Exposure
51/100
Moderate

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

Replacement Risk
45/100
Moderate

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
Confidence82/100
Task coverage87%

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
Determine schedules, sequences, and assignments for work activities, based on work priority, quantity of equipment, and skill of personnel.Medium
70
Requisition materials and supplies, such as tools, equipment, or replacement parts.Medium
69
Compute estimates and actual costs of factors such as materials, labor, or outside contractors.Medium
73
Interpret specifications, blueprints, or job orders to construct templates and lay out reference points for workers.Medium
73
Confer 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.Medium
68
Develop or implement electronic maintenance programs or computer information management systems.Medium
71
Participate in budget preparation and administration, coordinating purchasing and documentation and monitoring departmental expenditures.Medium
56
Counsel employees about work-related issues and assist employees to correct job-skill deficiencies.Medium
58
Review, evaluate, accept, and coordinate completion of work bid from contractors.Medium
74
Develop, implement, or evaluate maintenance policies and procedures.Medium
72
Inspect, test, and measure completed work, using devices such as hand tools or gauges to verify conformance to standards or repair requirements.Medium
40
Monitor tool and part inventories and the condition and maintenance of shops to ensure adequate working conditions.Medium
37
Examine objects, systems, or facilities and analyze information to determine needed installations, services, or repairs.Medium
35
Compile operational or personnel records, such as time and production records, inventory data, repair or maintenance statistics, or test results.Medium
36
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.Medium
24
Perform skilled repair or maintenance operations, using equipment such as hand or power tools, hydraulic presses or shears, or welding equipment.Medium
21
Conduct or arrange for worker training in safety, repair, or maintenance techniques, operational procedures, or equipment use.Medium
23
Meet with vendors or suppliers to discuss products used in repair work.Medium
17
Most exposed

Where AI can do more

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

  1. Review, evaluate, accept, and coordinate completion of work bid from contractors.74
  2. Compute estimates and actual costs of factors such as materials, labor, or outside contractors.73
  3. Interpret specifications, blueprints, or job orders to construct templates and lay out reference points for workers.73
  4. Develop, implement, or evaluate maintenance policies and procedures.72
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. Meet with vendors or suppliers to discuss products used in repair work.01
  2. Perform skilled repair or maintenance operations, using equipment such as hand or power tools, hydraulic presses or shears, or welding equipment.02
  3. 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.03
  4. Conduct or arrange for worker training in safety, repair, or maintenance techniques, operational procedures, or equipment use.04
  5. Examine objects, systems, or facilities and analyze information to determine needed installations, services, or repairs.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 dependency71
Physical dependency54
Adoption pressure47
Labour-market resilience69
Methodology & sources

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

Confidence82/100
CalculatedAug 21, 2026
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