Will AI replace Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay?

What this score means

Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay is among the least exposed roles in Construction & Trades. Most of what the job involves still sits outside what current AI can do, even as the tools around it keep changing. At 17 out of 100 it scores 3 points above the Construction & Trades average of 14. Across the 3 sources behind this baseline, individual estimates run from 15 to 20, so the score is a weighted consensus rather than any single figure.

The number is a consensus estimate for the typical version of the role, built from published academic and industry research scored occupation by occupation. It is not a prediction about any individual. How scoring works

What this job actually involves

Exposure follows the work itself rather than the job title, so it is worth seeing what the role is made of. These are the tasks O*NET records for Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay, most central first, showing 12 of 15.

• 01Inspect and test equipment and circuits to identify malfunctions or defects, using wiring diagrams and testing devices such as ohmmeters, voltmeters, or ammeters.
• 02Prepare and maintain records detailing tests, repairs, and maintenance.
• 03Consult manuals, schematics, wiring diagrams, and engineering personnel to troubleshoot and solve equipment problems and to determine optimum equipment functioning.
• 04Analyze test data to diagnose malfunctions, to determine performance characteristics of systems, or to evaluate effects of system modifications.
• 05Open and close switches to isolate defective relays, performing adjustments or repairs.
• 06Notify facility personnel of equipment shutdowns.
• 07Repair, replace, and clean equipment and components such as circuit breakers, brushes, and commutators.
• 08Run signal quality and connectivity tests for individual cables, and record results.
• 09Maintain inventories of spare parts for all equipment, requisitioning parts as necessary.
• 10Construct, test, maintain, and repair substation relay and control systems.
• 11Test insulators and bushings of equipment by inducing voltage across insulation, testing current, and calculating insulation loss.
• 12Schedule and supervise the construction and testing of special devices and the implementation of unique monitoring or control systems.

Task statements from O*NET by the National Center for O*NET Development, used under CC BY 4.0. The tasks are descriptive; the exposure score above is ours.

The research behind this score

This baseline aggregates 3 research sources that scored Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay for AI and automation exposure. More recent, higher confidence studies carry more weight in the final number.

• 01Anthropic Economic Index 2026 - AI Task Exposure · 2026
• 02GPTs are GPTs: Labor Market Impact Potential of LLMs · 2024
• 03AI Occupational Exposure to Language Modeling · 2023

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