AI exposure: 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.
Reading this score
computed35.0% of this occupation's weighted task load is exposed, which puts First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers at the 60th percentile of 923 occupations. The capability is largely there. Its average task scores 2.2 out of 4 on what a current system can produce, and the frictions that hold other jobs in place are comparatively weak here.
What holds the line here is context. Across this occupation's 22 tasks it averages 1.75 out of 3, the highest of the five friction dimensions. In plain terms, the work depends on knowledge the model cannot hold. Much of this job runs on things that were never written down: what this particular organisation does, what happened last week, what the person across the table actually meant. That context is the barrier, and it erodes as systems are given more access.
The most exposed thing this job does is Requisition materials and supplies, at 80.0%. The least is Perform skilled repair or maintenance operations, at 0.0%. A gap of 80.0% between two parts of the same job is the reason this index publishes at task level. An occupation-wide number would have hidden both.
Within installation, maintenance and repair occupations, this one is more exposed than most. The median across the 50 roles in the group is 12.8%, and only 0 of them score higher than this. Occupational families are not uniform, and the spread inside them is often wider than the gap between them.
What would move this score. Of 22 tasks, 13 are currently banded exposed, 2 assisted and 7 untouched. For that distribution to shift materially would take systems being given deeper access to the organisation's own records and history, which is already happening. The score is re-computed every quarter against a fresh capability reference, and the change is published rather than quietly applied.
Task by task
22 tasks, O*NET 31.0| Task | Exposed | Assisted | Untouched | Importance | Band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Requisition materials and supplies, such as tools, equipment, or replacement parts. | 80.0% | 20.0% | 0.0% | 3.73 | exposed |
| Determine schedules, sequences, and assignments for work activities, based on work priority, quantity of equipment, and skill of personnel. | 80.0% | 20.0% | 0.0% | 3.68 | exposed |
| Meet with vendors or suppliers to discuss products used in repair work. | 73.3% | 26.7% | 0.0% | 3.39 | exposed |
| Compile operational or personnel records, such as time and production records, inventory data, repair or maintenance statistics, or test results. | 73.3% | 26.7% | 0.0% | 3.56 | exposed |
| Compute estimates and actual costs of factors such as materials, labor, or outside contractors. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 3.75 | exposed |
| 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. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 3.70 | exposed |
| Develop, implement, or evaluate maintenance policies and procedures. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 3.48 | exposed |
| Participate in budget preparation and administration, coordinating purchasing and documentation and monitoring departmental expenditures. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 3.75 | exposed |
| Design equipment configurations to meet personnel needs. | 45.0% | 30.0% | 25.0% | 3.08 | exposed |
| Develop or implement electronic maintenance programs or computer information management systems. | 33.3% | 16.7% | 50.0% | 3.36 | exposed |
| Monitor tool and part inventories and the condition and maintenance of shops to ensure adequate working conditions. | 30.0% | 20.0% | 50.0% | 3.74 | exposed |
| Interpret specifications, blueprints, or job orders to construct templates and lay out reference points for workers. | 26.7% | 23.3% | 50.0% | 3.86 | exposed |
| Conduct or arrange for worker training in safety, repair, or maintenance techniques, operational procedures, or equipment use. | 26.7% | 23.3% | 50.0% | 3.53 | exposed |
| Review, evaluate, accept, and coordinate completion of work bid from contractors. | 23.3% | 26.7% | 50.0% | 3.60 | assisted |
| Investigate accidents or injuries and prepare reports of findings. | 20.0% | 30.0% | 50.0% | 3.60 | assisted |
| 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. | 15.0% | 22.5% | 62.5% | 3.88 | untouched |
| Monitor employees' work levels and review work performance. | 13.3% | 11.7% | 75.0% | 3.86 | untouched |
| Counsel employees about work-related issues and assist employees to correct job-skill deficiencies. | 13.3% | 11.7% | 75.0% | 3.64 | untouched |
| Recommend or initiate personnel actions, such as hires, promotions, transfers, discharges, or disciplinary measures. | 13.3% | 11.7% | 75.0% | 3.61 | untouched |
| Examine objects, systems, or facilities and analyze information to determine needed installations, services, or repairs. | 10.0% | 15.0% | 75.0% | 3.64 | untouched |
| Inspect, test, and measure completed work, using devices such as hand tools or gauges to verify conformance to standards or repair requirements. | 7.5% | 5.0% | 87.5% | 3.89 | untouched |
| Perform skilled repair or maintenance operations, using equipment such as hand or power tools, hydraulic presses or shears, or welding equipment. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.81 | untouched |
Task text and importance ratings sourced from O*NET 31.0. Shares computed. The occupation score is the importance-weighted mean.
Where the score comes from
judgedEvery task is scored through the standardised work activities it maps to. These are this occupation’s averages on the six rubric dimensions. Capability is what AI can do; the other five are what stands in the way.
| Dimension | Mean | Scale |
|---|---|---|
| Capability | 2.23 | 0-4 |
| Embodiment | 1.00 | 0-3 |
| Presence | 1.18 | 0-3 |
| Accountability | 0.91 | 0-3 |
| Context | 1.75 | 0-3 |
| Verification cost | 1.25 | 0-3 |
What this means in practice
Where most of a role's weighted task load is exposed, the work that survives is usually the part of the job nobody wrote into the job description: deciding what should be produced rather than producing it, and being answerable for the result. The tasks lowest on this page are a better guide to where to spend your time than any general advice about the future of work.
Occupations either side of this one
The four closest scores in the same occupational family, then the four closest anywhere in the index.
Read this carefully. Exposure is not displacement. A high score means current AI systems can produce this work, not that anyone will stop paying a person to do it. Adoption depends on economics, regulation and inertia that this index deliberately does not model. How the score is built.