Assist skilled construction or extraction personnel
Little of this can be handed to software today.
This happens in the physical world, so software agents do not touch it. Automation here means robotics and machinery, which is a different market from the one mapped on this site, on a much slower clock.
| How automatable | Barely automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Physical, manual and inspection work |
| Jobs that do it | 17 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | None |
| O*NET activity | Performing General Physical Activities (4.A.3.a.1) |
What this looks like on the job
Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 17 occupations that perform it.
- Assist in designing programs to ensure the proper sealing of abandoned wells.
- Provide workers with assistance in performing duties as necessary to meet deadlines.
- Provide assistance to workers engaged in construction or extraction activities, using hand tools or other equipment.
- Provide assistance to craft workers, such as carpenters, plasterers, or masons.
- Push other equipment when extra traction or assistance is required.
- Provide assistance during emergencies by operating floodlights or generators, placing flares, or driving needed vehicles.
- Hold rivets while riveters use air hammers to form heads on rivets.
- Locate and supply materials to masons for installation, following drawings or numbered sequences.
- Construct forms and assist in raising them to the required elevation.
- Perform support duties to assist painters, paperhangers, plasterers, or masons.
- Fit or assist in fitting valves, couplings, or assemblies to tanks, pumps, or systems, using hand tools.
- Provide assistance to skilled roofers installing and repairing roofs, flashings, and surfaces.
- Guide and assist crews laying track and resetting supports and blocking.
- Supply equipment to rig floors as requested and provide assistance to roughnecks.
- Provide assistance to extraction craft workers, such as earth drillers and derrick operators.
- Hold or supply tools, parts, equipment, and supplies for other workers.
- Perform the same work duties as those supervised, or perform more difficult or skilled tasks or assist in their performance.
- Provide assistance in the preparation, installation, repair, or rebuilding of tile, brick, or stone surfaces.
What we would actually use
Nothing in our landscape addresses this work. That is the honest answer rather than a padded list: this activity needs a person present, or a machine rather than a software agent.
Nothing on this site applies. Automation here is robotics and machinery, a different market on a much slower clock, and no software subscription moves it.
Chosen for the cheapest thing that does the job, not the best funded. Nothing on this site is sponsored, and the full landscape is there when you want to disagree with us.
How people actually do it
No workflow names this activity yet, but these automate the same kind of work, with the prompts to paste and what to keep for yourself.
Who does this work
17 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Construction Laborers
- Continuous Mining Machine Operators
- Electricians
- First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers
- First-Line Supervisors of Helpers, Laborers, and Material Movers, Hand
- First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers
- Helpers--Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setters
- Helpers--Carpenters
- Helpers--Extraction Workers
- Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers
- Helpers--Painters, Paperhangers, Plasterers, and Stucco Masons
- Helpers--Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters
- Helpers--Roofers
- Hydrologic Technicians
- Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators
- Roustabouts, Oil and Gas
- Structural Iron and Steel Workers
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Perform general construction or extraction activities”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
Method. The activity, its taxonomy placement and the occupations that perform it come straight from the public-domain O*NET 30.3 database. The automatability band is ours: we map each of O*NET’s 41 generalized work activities to how much of its output current software can produce, assuming a person still reviews and owns the result. It is a coarse three-way judgment on purpose. A precise-looking percentage here would be invented.