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Craft and related trades workers · code 7413

Electrical line installers and repairers

Electrical line installers and repairers install, repair and join electrical transmission and supply cables and related equipment. Tasks include - (a) installing and repairing overhead and underground electrical power and electrical traction lines; (b) making joints in overhead and underground cables; (c) adhering to safety practices and procedures, such as checking equipment regularly and erecting barriers around work areas; (d) opening switches or attaching grounding devices to remove electrical hazards from disturbed or fallen lines or to facilitate repairs; (e) climbing poles or using truck-mounted buckets to access equipment; (f) identifying defective sectionalizing devices, circuit breakers, fuses, voltage regulators, transformers, switches, relays or wiring, using wiring diagrams and electrical-testing instruments. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Electric cable jointer - Electric power line worker Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Data and telecommunications cabler - 7422 - Telecommunications line worker - 7422

None of this job's tasks scored high enough to count. It ranks 79 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • electricity distribution worker

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84.6
Holds up
against AI Not Exposed

AI could take on 15.4 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 15.4 = 84.6

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

76.4
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, averaged across 2 US jobs

47.8
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 48.3 · hand skill 45.6 · cramped spaces 49.8 · 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 76.4 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 27, while the average is 15.4. 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. 27

    Identifying defective sectionalizing devices, circuit breakers, fuses, voltage regulators, transformers, switches, relays or wiring, using wiring diagrams and electrical-testing instruments.

    Low
  2. 22.5

    Adhering to safety practices and procedures, such as checking equipment regularly and erecting barriers around work areas

    Very Low
  3. 14

    Installing and repairing overhead and underground electrical power and electrical traction lines

    Very Low
  4. 12

    Making joints in overhead and underground cables

    Very Low
  5. 11

    Opening switches or attaching grounding devices to remove electrical hazards from disturbed or fallen lines or to facilitate repairs

    Very Low
  6. 5.8

    Climbing poles or using truck-mounted buckets to access equipment

    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, but only partly: not everyone in it does this job. Treat the numbers as a rough guide.

AI helps you
57
AI does it for you
15

Helping wins by 42 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 3422

Compared with similar jobs

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