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Craft and related trades workers · code 7412

Electrical mechanics and fitters

Electrical mechanics and fitters fit, adjust, install and repair electrical machinery and other electrical apparatus and equipment in buildings, factories, motor vehicles, workshops or other places. Tasks include - (a) fitting, adjusting and repairing various kinds of electrical machinery and motors, generators, switchgear and control apparatus, instruments, or electrical parts of elevators and related equipment; (b) fitting, adjusting and repairing electrical parts in domestic appliances, industrial machines and other appliances; (c) inspecting and testing manufactured electrical products; (d) installing, testing, connecting, commissioning, maintaining and modifying electrical equipment, wiring and control systems; (e) designing, installing, maintaining, servicing and repairing electricand hydraulic passenger and freight lifts, escalators, moving walkways and other lift equipment; (f) connecting electrical systems to the power supply; (g) replacing and repairing defective parts. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Armature builder - Automotive electrician - Electrical generator fitter - Electrical mechanic - Lift mechanic Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Electronics mechanic - 7421 - Electrical equipment assembler - 8212

None of this job's tasks scored high enough to count. It ranks 102 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • rolling stock electrician
  • automotive battery technician
  • marine electrician
  • ground lighting officer
  • lift engineer
  • mining electrician
  • automotive electrician
  • ride technician
  • wind turbine technician
  • household appliances repair technician
  • electrical mechanic
  • power tool repair 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.

67
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, averaged across 13 US jobs , so treat it as rough

52.2
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 49.6 · hand skill 46.7 · cramped spaces 60.4 · 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 67 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 28.4, 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. 28.4

    Inspecting and testing manufactured electrical products

    Low
  2. 20.5

    Installing, testing, connecting, commissioning, maintaining and modifying electrical equipment, wiring and control systems

    Very Low
  3. 16.3

    Fitting, adjusting and repairing electrical parts in domestic appliances, industrial machines and other appliances

    Very Low
  4. 15.5

    Fitting, adjusting and repairing various kinds of electrical machinery and motors, generators, switchgear and control apparatus, instruments, or electrical parts of elevators and related equipment

    Very Low
  5. 14

    Connecting electrical systems to power supply

    Very Low
  6. 14

    Replacing and repairing defective parts.

    Very Low
  7. 13.5

    Designing, installing, maintaining, servicing and repairing electric and hydraulic passenger and freight lifts, escalators, moving walkways and other lift equipment

    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
57.5
AI does it for you
20

Helping wins by 37.5 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 3211, 3411

Compared with similar jobs

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