Plan work operations.

Plan work operations. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 6 occupations and seen in 8 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Plan work activities. in Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work .

Detailed work activities are the most granular shared layer in O*NET's work-activity hierarchy (Generalized → Intermediate → Detailed → occupation-specific task). The figures below describe how this activity shows up across the economy and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the work will be automated.

AI exposure

Of the 8 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 8 (100%) are flagged as directly exposed to language models (E1) or exposed via model-powered tools (E2).

Exposure estimates overlap with model capabilities — whether a model could speed the task up — not whether the work will be done by software. Observed AI use is augmentation and assistance today, not jobs replaced.

Member tasks

Occupation-specific tasks O*NET maps to this detailed work activity, most important first.

• Plan movement of products through lines to processing, storage, and shipping units, using knowledge of interconnections and capacities of pipelines, valve manifolds, pumps, and tankage. · Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers · importance 4.4 · exposure with tools
• Plan and coordinate airfield construction. · Airfield Operations Specialists · importance 4.2 · exposure with tools
• Plan work assignments and equipment allocations to meet transportation, operations or production goals. · First-Line Supervisors of Material-Moving Machine and Vehicle Operators · importance 4.1 · exposure with tools
• Create or manage recycling operations budgets. · Recycling Coordinators · importance 4.0 · exposure with tools
• Plan work schedules and assign duties to maintain adequate staff for effective performance of activities and response to fluctuating workloads. · First-Line Supervisors of Helpers, Laborers, and Material Movers, Hand · importance 4.0 · exposure with tools
• Plan, organize and direct activities of seasonal staff members. · Park Naturalists · importance 3.9 · exposure with tools
• Provide assistance in balancing books, tracking, monitoring, or projecting a unit's budget needs, and in developing unit policies and procedures. · First-Line Supervisors of Helpers, Laborers, and Material Movers, Hand · importance 3.7 · exposure with tools
• Establish procedures for street closures or for repair or construction projects. · Traffic Technicians · importance 3.7 · exposure with tools

Occupations that perform this

• Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers
• Airfield Operations Specialists
• First-Line Supervisors of Material-Moving Machine and Vehicle Operators
• Recycling Coordinators
• Park Naturalists
• Traffic Technicians

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.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

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

@misc{singulariki-plan-work-operations,
  title  = {Plan work operations.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/detailed-activities/plan-work-operations}
}