Repair and maintain equipment, making emergency adjustments or assisting with major repairs as necessary.

“Repair and maintain equipment, making emergency adjustments or assisting with major repairs as necessary.” is a core task performed by Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators. Among the occupation's 28 rated tasks, workers place it 20th by importance (#9 most important). About 80% 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.

• 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

• Learn and follow safety regulations. · importance 4.9
• Take actions to avoid potential hazards or obstructions, such as utility lines, other equipment, other workers, or falling objects. · importance 4.7
• Check fuel supplies at sites to ensure adequate availability. · importance 4.7
• Start engines, move throttles, switches, or levers, or depress pedals to operate machines, such as bulldozers, trench excavators, road graders, or backhoes. · importance 4.6
• Coordinate machine actions with other activities, positioning or moving loads in response to hand or audio signals from crew members. · importance 4.5
• Locate underground services, such as pipes or wires, prior to beginning work. · importance 4.5
• Align machines, cutterheads, or depth gauge makers with reference stakes and guidelines or ground or position equipment, following hand signals of other workers. · importance 4.5
• Signal operators to guide movement of tractor-drawn machines. · importance 4.4
• Load and move dirt, rocks, equipment, or other materials, using trucks, crawler tractors, power cranes, shovels, graders, or related equipment. · importance 4.3
• Drive and maneuver equipment equipped with blades in successive passes over working areas to remove topsoil, vegetation, or rocks or to distribute and level earth or terrain. · importance 4.3
• Operate tractors or bulldozers to perform such tasks as clearing land, mixing sludge, trimming backfills, or building roadways or parking lots. · importance 4.3
• Talk to clients and study instructions, plans, or diagrams to establish work requirements. · importance 4.2
• Monitor operations to ensure that health and safety standards are met. · importance 4.2
• Connect hydraulic hoses, belts, mechanical linkages, or power takeoff shafts to tractors. · importance 4.1

See all tasks on the Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators 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.

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  title  = {Repair and maintain equipment, making emergency adjustments or assisting with major repairs as necessary.},
  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-9860}
}