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Technicians and associate professionals · code 3113

Electrical engineering technicians

Electrical engineering technicians perform technical tasks to aid in electrical engineering research and in the design, manufacture, assembly, construction, operation, maintenance and repair of electrical equipment, facilities and distribution systems. Tasks include - (a) providing technical assistance in research on and development of electrical equipment and facilities, or testing prototypes; (b) designing and preparing blueprints of electrical installations and circuitry according to the specifications given; (c) preparing detailed estimates of quantities and costs of materials and labour required for manufacture and installation, according to the specifications given; (d) monitoring technical aspects of the manufacture, installation, utilization, maintenance and repair of electrical systems and equipment to ensure satisfactory performance and compliance with specifications and regulations; (e) planning installation methods, checking completed installations for safety and controls or undertaking the initial running of the new electrical equipment or systems; (f) assembling, installing, testing, calibrating, modifying and repairing electrical equipment and installations to conform with regulations and safety requirements. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Electrical engineering technician - Electric power transmission engineering technician Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Electronics engineering technician - 3114 - Power production plant operator - 3131 - Electrical mechanic - 7412

None of this job's tasks scored high enough to count. It ranks 212 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • hydropower technician
  • electrical engineering technician

Job titles from the EU's ESCO list. Search for any of them on the jobs page and you'll end up here.

73
Holds up
against AI Not Exposed

AI could take on 27 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 27 = 73

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

53.5
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, averaged across 3 US jobs

43.8
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 50.9 · hand skill 47.4 · cramped spaces 33.2 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on 50+ · fiddly 39.4+ Hands-on, fiddly work in tight spaces

More fine handwork, and more time in cramped or awkward spots, than a typical hands-on job. That is exactly what machines find hardest: they do best in tidy, predictable places.

estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement

This number is probably too high

This score only looks at AI tools like chatbots. It doesn't look at robots at all — and this job rates 53.5 out of 100 for how hands-on it is, which is exactly where robots come in.

Have a look at the tasks below and judge for yourself. The ILO scored them low because a chatbot can't do them. Whether a machine with hands could is a different question, and we can't answer it yet.

The tasks behind the score

The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.

The task AI could do most of scores 31.3, while the average is 27. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.

  1. 31.3

    Providing technical assistance in research on and development of electrical equipment and facilities, or testing prototypes

    Low
  2. 30

    Preparing detailed estimates of quantities and costs of materials and labour required for manufacture and installation, according to the specifications given

    Low
  3. 29.5

    Designing and preparing blueprints of electrical installations and circuitry according to the specifications given

    Low
  4. 28

    Monitoring technical aspects of the manufacture, installation, utilization, maintenance and repair of electrical systems and equipment to ensure satisfactory performance and compliance with specifications and regulations

    Low
  5. 25

    Planning installation methods, checking completed installation for safety and controls or undertaking the initial running of the new electrical equipment or systems

    Low
  6. 18.4

    Assembling, installing, testing, calibrating, modifying and repairing electrical equipment and installations to conform with regulations and safety requirements.

    Very Low

6 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's

from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting

Helped, or replaced?

The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.

One Australian job matches this one closely, so this is about as reliable as it gets here.

AI helps you
72
AI does it for you
48

Helping wins by 24 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 3123

Compared with similar jobs

There are 82 jobs in the “Technicians and associate professionals” group, averaging 65.3. This one is above that.