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Adjust flow of electricity to tools or production equipment

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 Adjust equipment to ensure adequate performance, under the O*NET work activity group Handling and Moving Objects. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 5 stays human).

Tasks built on this activity

• Adjust controls and/or valves on equipment to provide power, and to regulate and set operations of system or industrial processes.Stays human Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators
• Adjust dials to regulate flow of current and voltage supplied to terminals to control plating processes.Stays human Plating Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
• Measure and adjust voltages to specified values to determine operational accuracy of instruments.Stays human Electrical and Electronic Equipment Assemblers

Tasks where it is part of the work

• Regulate supplies of fuel and air, or control flow of electric current and water coolant to heat furnaces and adjust temperatures.Stays human Metal-Refining Furnace Operators and Tenders
• Set dials and timing controls to regulate electrical current, gas flow pressure, heating or cooling cycles, or shut-off.Stays human Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders