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Engineering & Architecture · Updated Aug 2026

Mining and Geological Engineers, Including Mining Safety Engineers

Conduct subsurface surveys to identify the characteristics of potential land or mining development sites. May specify the ground support systems, processes, and equipment for safe, economical, and environmentally sound extraction or underground construction activities. May inspect areas for unsafe geological conditions, equipment, and working conditions. May design, implement, and coordinate mine safety programs.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
AI Exposure
59/100
Moderate

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

Replacement Risk
55/100
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 coverage85%

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
Prepare technical reports for use by mining, engineering, and management personnel.High
73
Select or develop mineral location, extraction, and production methods, based on factors such as safety, cost, and deposit characteristics.Medium
72
Prepare schedules, reports, and estimates of the costs involved in developing and operating mines.Medium
72
Inspect mining areas for unsafe structures, equipment, and working conditions.High
56
Devise solutions to problems of land reclamation and water and air pollution, such as methods of storing excavated soil and returning exhausted mine sites to natural states.Medium
73
Supervise, train, and evaluate technicians, technologists, survey personnel, engineers, scientists or other mine personnel.Medium
72
Select locations and plan underground or surface mining operations, specifying processes, labor usage, and equipment that will result in safe, economical, and environmentally sound extraction of minerals and ores.Medium
70
Design, develop, and implement computer applications for use in mining operations such as mine design, modeling, or mapping or for monitoring mine conditions.Medium
61
Design, implement, and monitor the development of mines, facilities, systems, or equipment.Medium
60
Monitor mine production rates to assess operational effectiveness.Medium
40
Implement and coordinate mine safety programs, including the design and maintenance of protective and rescue equipment and safety devices.Medium
50
Examine maps, deposits, drilling locations, or mines to determine the location, size, accessibility, contents, value, and potential profitability of mineral, oil, and gas deposits.Medium
37
Test air to detect toxic gases and recommend measures to remove them, such as installation of ventilation shafts.High
30
Most exposed

Where AI can do more

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

  1. Prepare technical reports for use by mining, engineering, and management personnel.73
  2. Devise solutions to problems of land reclamation and water and air pollution, such as methods of storing excavated soil and returning exhausted mine sites to natural states.73
  3. Select or develop mineral location, extraction, and production methods, based on factors such as safety, cost, and deposit characteristics.72
  4. Prepare schedules, reports, and estimates of the costs involved in developing and operating mines.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. Test air to detect toxic gases and recommend measures to remove them, such as installation of ventilation shafts.01
  2. Examine maps, deposits, drilling locations, or mines to determine the location, size, accessibility, contents, value, and potential profitability of mineral, oil, and gas deposits.02
  3. Monitor mine production rates to assess operational effectiveness.03
  4. Implement and coordinate mine safety programs, including the design and maintenance of protective and rescue equipment and safety devices.04
  5. Prepare technical reports for use by mining, engineering, and management personnel.05
Where else this work leads

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Occupations O*NET links to this one. Relatedness reflects shared work, not a claim that these roles are safer.

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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 dependency64
Physical dependency37
Adoption pressure60
Labour-market resilience61
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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