AI exposure: Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers
Move or install mobile homes or prefabricated buildings.
Reading this score
computedManufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers is among the least exposed occupations measured, at 6.0% of weighted task load, rank 864 of 923. 90.6% of this job is work current AI systems cannot produce at all. That is not a statement about skill or value. It is a statement about what these systems can and cannot do.
What holds the line here is embodiment. Across this occupation's 14 tasks it averages 2.67 out of 3, the highest of the five friction dimensions. In plain terms, the work has to happen in physical space. A language model cannot move matter. Until the robotics to do this work is both good enough and cheap enough to deploy widely, capability in software does not reach it.
The most exposed thing this job does is List parts needed, estimate costs, and plan work procedures, at 57.4%. The least is Refinish wood surfaces on cabinets, doors, moldings, and floors, at 0.0%. A gap of 57.4% 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 less exposed than the median of 13.8% across the group's 50 roles, with 41 scoring higher. Being in an exposed family does not make a particular job exposed, and the reverse holds too.
What would move this score. Of 14 tasks, 2 are currently banded exposed, 0 assisted and 12 untouched. For that distribution to shift materially would take robotics cheap and reliable enough to deploy at scale, not a better language model. The score is re-computed every quarter against a fresh capability reference, and the change is published rather than quietly applied.
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 | 0.60 | 0-4 |
| Embodiment | 2.67 | 0-3 |
| Presence | 0.44 | 0-3 |
| Accountability | 0.80 | 0-3 |
| Context | 1.15 | 0-3 |
| Verification cost | 1.50 | 0-3 |
Task by task
14 tasks, O*NET 31.0| Task | Exposed | Assisted | Untouched | Importance | Band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| List parts needed, estimate costs, and plan work procedures, using parts lists, technical manuals, and diagrams. | 57.4% | 25.9% | 16.7% | 3.60 | exposed |
| Confer with customers or read work orders to determine the nature and extent of damage to units. | 45.0% | 30.0% | 25.0% | 3.39 | exposed |
| Inspect, examine, and test the operation of parts or systems to evaluate operating condition and to determine if repairs are needed. | 12.5% | 12.5% | 75.0% | 3.45 | untouched |
| Open and close doors, windows, and drawers to test their operation, trimming edges to fit, using jackplanes or drawknives. | 7.9% | 4.6% | 87.5% | 3.28 | untouched |
| Connect electrical systems to outside power sources and activate switches to test the operation of appliances and light fixtures. | 6.2% | 6.2% | 87.5% | – | untouched |
| Move and set up mobile homes or prefabricated buildings on owners' lots or at mobile home parks. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.53 | untouched |
| Seal open sides of modular units to prepare them for shipment, using polyethylene sheets, nails, and hammers. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.25 | untouched |
| Repair leaks in plumbing or gas lines, using caulking compounds and plastic or copper pipe. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.82 | untouched |
| Connect water hoses to inlet pipes of plumbing systems, and test operation of plumbing fixtures. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.82 | untouched |
| Install, repair, and replace units, fixtures, appliances, and other items and systems in mobile and modular homes, prefabricated buildings, or travel trailers, using hand tools or power tools. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.54 | untouched |
| Remove damaged exterior panels, repair and replace structural frame members, and seal leaks, using hand tools. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.29 | untouched |
| Locate and repair frayed wiring, broken connections, or incorrect wiring, using ohmmeters, soldering irons, tape, and hand tools. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.49 | untouched |
| Reset hardware, using chisels, mallets, and screwdrivers. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.00 | untouched |
| Refinish wood surfaces on cabinets, doors, moldings, and floors, using power sanders, putty, spray equipment, brushes, paints, or varnishes. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 2.81 | untouched |
Task text and importance ratings sourced from O*NET 31.0. Shares computed. The occupation score is the importance-weighted mean. 2 task(s) lacked a usable O*NET weight and are shown but excluded from the weighting.
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.
What this means in practice
Most of this work is not reachable by current systems, so the immediate pressure is on the administrative edges of the role rather than its core: the scheduling, the reporting, the written records. That is where time is recovered.