Perform skilled repair or maintenance operations, using equipment such as hand or power tools, hydraulic presses or shears, or welding equipment.

“Perform skilled repair or maintenance operations, using equipment such as hand or power tools, hydraulic presses or shears, or welding equipment.” is a core task performed by First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers. Among the occupation's 22 rated tasks, workers place it 18th by importance (#5 most important). About 70% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Join parts using soldering, welding, or brazing techniques. in Handling and Moving Objects
• Maintain tools or equipment. in Repairing and Maintaining Electronic Equipment

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T0.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Inspect, test, and measure completed work, using devices such as hand tools or gauges to verify conformance to standards or repair requirements. · importance 3.9
• 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. · importance 3.9
• Monitor employees' work levels and review work performance. · importance 3.9
• Interpret specifications, blueprints, or job orders to construct templates and lay out reference points for workers. · importance 3.9
• Participate in budget preparation and administration, coordinating purchasing and documentation and monitoring departmental expenditures. · importance 3.8
• Compute estimates and actual costs of factors such as materials, labor, or outside contractors. · importance 3.8
• Monitor tool and part inventories and the condition and maintenance of shops to ensure adequate working conditions. · importance 3.7
• Requisition materials and supplies, such as tools, equipment, or replacement parts. · importance 3.7
• 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. · importance 3.7
• Determine schedules, sequences, and assignments for work activities, based on work priority, quantity of equipment, and skill of personnel. · importance 3.7
• Examine objects, systems, or facilities and analyze information to determine needed installations, services, or repairs. · importance 3.6
• Counsel employees about work-related issues and assist employees to correct job-skill deficiencies. · importance 3.6
• Recommend or initiate personnel actions, such as hires, promotions, transfers, discharges, or disciplinary measures. · importance 3.6
• Review, evaluate, accept, and coordinate completion of work bid from contractors. · importance 3.6

See all tasks on the First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers page.

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-task-2925,
  title  = {Perform skilled repair or maintenance operations, using equipment such as hand or power tools, hydraulic presses or shears, or welding equipment.},
  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/tasks/task-2925}
}