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Maintain facilities or equipment

Work activity · O*NET

Maintain facilities or equipment is an intermediate work activity in the O*NET database — a concrete task that recurs across many occupations , grouped under Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment. 35 occupations report doing it as part of their work.

What it involves

The most common detailed activities O*NET records under this category, ranked by how many occupation tasks map to each.

  • Maintain facilities
  • Maintain plumbing structures or fixtures
  • Perform basic equipment maintenance
  • Repair structural components
  • Service heating, ventilation or air-conditioning (HVAC) systems or components
  • Repair pipes to stop leaking

How AI is applied to this activity

Microsoft's "Working with AI" study mapped real Bing Copilot conversations to O*NET work activities. The figures below are their measurements for this activity — they describe how AI is used today in one assistant's data, not a forecast that the activity will be automated.

AI completes it successfully 96.8% When Copilot attempts this activity, how often it finishes the task
Scope AI handles 17.6% How much of the activity AI carries within a conversation
Positive user feedback 78.0% Share of interactions users rated positively
How often AI is applied here 59th pct Percentile across all measured activities by how often AI performs them

Source: Microsoft "Working with AI" (working-with-ai). A high completion rate means AI can assist the activity in isolation — it does not mean an occupation that performs it is being automated, since every job blends many activities.

Detailed work activities

The more granular units of work O*NET groups under this activity, ordered by how many occupations perform them.

Occupations that perform this activity

Ranked by how many of the occupation's tasks map to this activity.

Occupation Tasks
Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers 4
Animal Caretakers 3
Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters 3
Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary 2
Commercial Divers 2
Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians 2
Geothermal Technicians 2
Helpers--Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters 2
Maintenance and Repair Workers, General 2
Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers 2
Motion Picture Projectionists 2
Park Naturalists 2
Recreational Vehicle Service Technicians 2
Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaners 2
Aircraft Service Attendants 1
Airfield Operations Specialists 1
Animal Trainers 1
Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics 1
Bicycle Repairers 1
Computer Numerically Controlled Tool Programmers 1
Costume Attendants 1
Embalmers 1
Environmental Compliance Inspectors 1
Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors 1
First-Line Supervisors of Gambling Services Workers 1
Fish and Game Wardens 1
Funeral Attendants 1
Highway Maintenance Workers 1
Lathe and Turning Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic 1
Locker Room, Coatroom, and Dressing Room Attendants 1
Locksmiths and Safe Repairers 1
Meter Readers, Utilities 1
Pipelayers 1
Rail Car Repairers 1
Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons 1
Exposure quadrant: AI task-overlap percentile vs Median pay AI task-overlap (horizontal) versus median pay (vertical), each as a percentile across all scored occupations, for 35 occupations in occupations that perform Maintain facilities or equipment.. Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation. Lower overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · lower pay Lower overlap · lower pay Highway Maintenance Workers Helpers--Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters Rail Car Repairers Embalmers Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors Locksmiths and Safe Repairers Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters Aircraft Service Attendants Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers Geothermal Technicians Costume Attendants Locker Room, Coatroom, and Dressing Room Attendants Fish and Game Wardens Airfield Operations Specialists Environmental Compliance Inspectors First-Line Supervisors of Gambling Services Workers Computer Numerically Controlled Tool Programmers AI task-overlap percentile → ↑ Median pay
Occupations that perform Maintain facilities or equipment., by AI task-overlap and median pay

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

Cite this page
Plain

Singulariki. "Maintain facilities or equipment." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/activities/maintain-facilities-or-equipment

APA

Singulariki. (2026). Maintain facilities or equipment. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/activities/maintain-facilities-or-equipment

BibTeX 
@misc{singulariki-maintain-facilities-or-equipment,
  title  = {Maintain facilities or equipment},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/activities/maintain-facilities-or-equipment}
}

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