All occupations › Installation, maintenance & repairCan AI Replace Maintenance and Repair Workers, General in 2026? Lower exposure. AI could handle about 19% of today's maintenance and repair workers, general tasks by 2036, and there is a 7% chance the number of jobs falls by a fifth or more. AI mostly assists people in this role.
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Timeline Year 2030 Headcount (2025 = 100)
100
Chance of 20%+ fewer jobs
7% 2030 · 7% 2036
One person could cover, 2036
~1 roles
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1 Perform routine maintenance, such as inspecting drives, motors, or belts, checking fluid levels, replacing filters, or doing other preventive maintenance actions. 2 Inspect, operate, or test machinery or equipment to diagnose machine malfunctions. 3 Adjust functional parts of devices or control instruments, using hand tools, levels, plumb bobs, or straightedges. 4 Order parts, supplies, or equipment from catalogs or suppliers. 5 Estimate costs to repair machinery, equipment, or building structures. 6 Diagnose mechanical problems and determine how to correct them, checking blueprints, repair manuals, or parts catalogs, as necessary. 7 Record type and cost of maintenance or repair work. Your plan Ticks are saved in this browser only.
Try an AI tool on one task you'd normally do by hand: "Record type and cost of maintenance or repair work". Learn one AI tool well enough to show it in an interview, for: "Order parts, supplies, or equipment from catalogs or suppliers". Get visibly better at your human core: "Perform routine maintenance, such as inspecting drives, motors, or belts, checking fluid levels, replacing filters, or doing other preventive maintenance actions". Rewrite the top of your CV around judgment, people and decisions, not routine output. Based on 30 O*NET tasks for "Maintenance and Repair Workers, General" (SOC 49-9071.00). LLM alone: 4% of tasks; with AI tools: 24%. Projections are a model, not official statistics. How we calculate this · Data version 2026-10
