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Craft and related trades workers · code 7233

Agricultural and industrial machinery mechanics and repairers

Agricultural and industrial machinery mechanics and repairers fit, install, examine, service and repair engines, agricultural and industrial machinery and mechanical equipment, except motor vehicle, aircraft and electric motors. Tasks include - (a) fitting, installing, examining, servicing and repairing engines, machinery and mechanical equipment; (b) oiling and greasing stationary engines and machinery; (c) inspecting and testing new machinery and mechanical equipment for conformity with standards and specifications; (d) disassembling machinery and equipment to remove parts and make repairs; (e) examining parts for defects such as breakage and excessive wear; (f) operating newly repaired machinery and equipment to verify the adequacy of repairs; (g) recording repairs and maintenance performed. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Construction machinery mechanic - Construction machinery repairer - Farm machinery repairer - Mining machinery fitter - Mining machinery repairer - Stationary engine fitter - Stationary engine repairer - Train engine fitter - Train engine repairer Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Air conditioning equipment mechanic - 7127 - Electrical mechanic - 7412 - Mechanical machinery assembler - 8211

None of this job's tasks scored high enough to count. It ranks 101 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • textile machinery technician
  • mining equipment mechanic
  • land-based machinery technician
  • pneumatic systems technician
  • marine mechanic
  • fluid power technician
  • industrial machinery mechanic
  • construction equipment technician
  • greaser
  • fisheries assistant engineer
  • rotating equipment mechanic
  • forge equipment technician
  • crane technician
  • moulding machine technician

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

82.6
Holds up
against AI Not Exposed

AI could take on 17.4 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 17.4 = 82.6

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

73.5
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, averaged across 9 US jobs , so treat it as rough

55.9
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 50.4 · hand skill 49.6 · cramped spaces 67.7 · 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 73.5 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 23.5, while the average is 17.4. 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. 23.5

    Inspecting and testing new machinery and mechanical equipment for conformity with standards and specifications

    Very Low
  2. 20.5

    Operating newly repaired machinery and equipment to verify the adequacy of repairs

    Very Low
  3. 20

    Recording repairs and maintenance performed.

    Very Low
  4. 17.5

    Examining parts for defects such as breakage and excessive wear

    Very Low
  5. 15

    Fitting, installing, examining, servicing and repairing engines, machinery and mechanical equipment

    Very Low
  6. 13

    Oiling and greasing stationary engines and machinery

    Very Low
  7. 12.3

    Disassembling machinery and equipment to remove parts and make repairs

    Very Low

7 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.

2 Australian jobs match this one, and we've simply averaged them. Treat the numbers as a rough guide.

AI helps you
61.5
AI does it for you
26

Helping wins by 35.5 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 3232, 3999

Compared with similar jobs

There are 65 jobs in the “Craft and related trades workers” group, averaging 83.5. This one is below that.