AI exposure: Mechanical Door Repairers
Install, service, or repair automatic door mechanisms and hydraulic doors. Includes garage door mechanics.
Reading this score
computedAt 12.8% of weighted task load, Mechanical Door Repairers sits at the 20th percentile, below the point where a job's centre of gravity has moved. 81.2% of what this role does is untouched, meaning current systems cannot produce that work at all, whatever the commercial incentive.
What holds the line here is embodiment. Across this occupation's 25 tasks it averages 2.56 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 Order replacement springs, sections, or slats, at 80.0%. The least is Fabricate replacements for worn or broken parts, 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 less exposed than the median of 13.8% across the group's 50 roles, with 25 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 25 tasks, 5 are currently banded exposed, 0 assisted and 20 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 | 0.68 | 0-4 |
| Embodiment | 2.56 | 0-3 |
| Presence | 0.20 | 0-3 |
| Accountability | 0.64 | 0-3 |
| Context | 1.00 | 0-3 |
| Verification cost | 1.12 | 0-3 |
Task by task
25 tasks, O*NET 31.0| Task | Exposed | Assisted | Untouched | Importance | Band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Order replacement springs, sections, or slats. | 80.0% | 20.0% | 0.0% | 4.31 | exposed |
| Complete required paperwork, such as work orders, according to services performed or required. | 73.3% | 26.7% | 0.0% | 4.45 | exposed |
| Collect payment upon job completion. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 4.09 | exposed |
| Inspect job sites, assessing headroom, side room, or other conditions to determine appropriateness of door for a given location. | 26.7% | 23.3% | 50.0% | 4.17 | exposed |
| Study blueprints and schematic diagrams to determine appropriate methods of installing or repairing automated door openers. | 26.7% | 23.3% | 50.0% | 3.59 | exposed |
| Adjust doors to open or close with the correct amount of effort, or make simple adjustments to electric openers. | 15.0% | 10.0% | 75.0% | 4.27 | untouched |
| Cover treadles with carpeting or other floor covering materials, and test systems by operating treadles. | 15.0% | 10.0% | 75.0% | 2.70 | untouched |
| Wind large springs with upward motion of arm. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.50 | untouched |
| Repair or replace worn or broken door parts, using hand tools. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.36 | untouched |
| Fasten angle iron back-hangers to ceilings and tracks, using fasteners or welding equipment. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.34 | untouched |
| Carry springs to tops of doors, using ladders or scaffolding, and attach springs to tracks to install spring systems. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.31 | untouched |
| Install door frames, rails, steel rolling curtains, electronic-eye mechanisms, or electric door openers and closers, using power tools, hand tools, and electronic test equipment. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.28 | untouched |
| Set doors into place or stack hardware sections into openings after rail or track installation. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.27 | untouched |
| Assemble and fasten tracks to structures or bucks, using impact wrenches or welding equipment. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.18 | untouched |
| Prepare doors for hardware installation, such as drilling holes to install locks. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.00 | untouched |
| Cut door stops or angle irons to fit openings. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.99 | untouched |
| Remove or disassemble defective automatic mechanical door closers, using hand tools. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.91 | untouched |
| Run low voltage wiring on ceiling surfaces, using insulated staples. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.88 | untouched |
| Operate lifts, winches, or chain falls to move heavy curtain doors. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.80 | untouched |
| Install dock seals, bumpers, or shelters. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.66 | untouched |
| Lubricate door closer oil chambers, and pack spindles with leather washers. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.87 | untouched |
| Bore or cut holes in flooring as required for installation, using hand or power tools. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.30 | untouched |
| Clean door closer parts, using caustic soda, rotary brushes, or grinding wheels. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.28 | untouched |
| Set in and secure floor treadles for door-activating mechanisms, and connect power packs and electrical panelboards to treadles. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.26 | untouched |
| Fabricate replacements for worn or broken parts, using welders, lathes, drill presses, or shaping or milling machines. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.05 | untouched |
Task text and importance ratings sourced from O*NET 31.0. Shares computed. The occupation score is the importance-weighted mean.
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.