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Maintain equipment or systems to ensure proper functioning

This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.

Part of Maintain tools or equipment, under the O*NET work activity group Repairing and Maintaining Electronic Equipment. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 8 stays human).

Tasks built on this activity

• Maintain equipment used in a particular sport.Stays human Athletes and Sports Competitors
• Check and maintain equipment to ensure that it is in working order.Stays human First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers
• Implement and maintain configuration control systems.Stays human Special Effects Artists and Animators
• Make adjustments or minor repairs to heating, cooling, ventilating, plumbing, or electrical systems.Stays human Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners
• Replace light bulbs.Stays human Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners
• Maintain or repair tools, equipment, or structures, such as buildings, greenhouses, fences, or benches, using hand or power tools.Stays human Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers

Tasks where it is part of the work

• Clean or service machinery to ensure operating efficiency, using water, gasoline, lubricants, or hand tools.Stays human Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation
• Design civil works associated with hydrographic activities and supervise their construction, installation, and maintenance.Stays human Hydrologists