All occupations › Transportation & material movingCan AI Replace Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers in 2026? Lower exposure. AI could handle about 29% of today's pump operators, except wellhead pumpers tasks by 2036, and there is a 12% 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 Chance of 20%+ fewer jobs
9% 2030 · 12% 2036
One person could cover, 2036
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0% 50% 100% 2026 2028 2030 2032 2034 2036 2026: 12% 2027: 12% 2028: 14% 2029: 15% 2030: 18% 2031: 20% 2032: 23% 2033: 25% 2034: 27% 2035: 28% 2036: 29% 18% Share of today's tasks AI can perform 40 80 120 2026 2028 2030 2032 2034 2036 2026: 100 2027: 100 2028: 99 2029: 99 2030: 99 2031: 98 2032: 97 2033: 97 2034: 96 2035: 96 2036: 96 99 Headcount index, 2025 = 100 (dashed line) Your survival map Not every part of your job is at the same risk. Tap a number to see what to do about each task.
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1 Turn valves and start pumps to start or regulate flows of substances such as gases, liquids, slurries, or powdered materials. 2 Communicate with other workers, using signals, radios, or telephones, to start and stop flows of materials or substances. 3 Connect hoses and pipelines to pumps and vessels prior to material transfer, using hand tools. 4 Monitor gauges and flowmeters and inspect equipment to ensure that tank levels, temperatures, chemical amounts, and pressures are at specified levels, reporting… 5 Plan movement of products through lines to processing, storage, and shipping units, using knowledge of interconnections and capacities of pipelines, valve manifolds,… 6 Record operating data such as products and quantities pumped, stocks used, gauging results, and operating times. 7 Read operating schedules or instructions or receive verbal orders to determine amounts to be pumped. Your plan Ticks are saved in this browser only.
Try an AI tool on one task you'd normally do by hand: "Record operating data such as products and quantities pumped, stocks used, gauging results, and operating times". Learn one AI tool well enough to show it in an interview, for: "Monitor gauges and flowmeters and inspect equipment to ensure that tank levels, temperatures, chemical amounts, and pressures are at specified levels, reporting…". Get visibly better at your human core: "Turn valves and start pumps to start or regulate flows of substances such as gases, liquids, slurries, or powdered materials". Rewrite the top of your CV around judgment, people and decisions, not routine output. Based on 14 O*NET tasks for "Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers" (SOC 53-7072.00). LLM alone: 17% of tasks; with AI tools: 33%. Projections are a model, not official statistics. How we calculate this · Data version 2026-10
