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Install gauges or controls

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 Assemble equipment or components, 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

• Install monitoring system components, such as flow meters, temperature gauges, and pressure gauges, according to system design and manufacturer specifications.Stays human Solar Thermal Installers and Technicians
• Install automatic controls to regulate pipe systems.Stays human Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters
• Install manholes, handholes, taps, tubes, valves, gauges, or feedwater connections in drums of water tube boilers, using hand tools.Stays human Boilermakers

Tasks where it is part of the work

• Insert sealing strips, wiring, insulating material, ladders, flanges, gauges, or valves, depending on types of structures being assembled.Stays human Structural Iron and Steel Workers
• Prepare, install, maintain, or repair equipment used for hydrologic study, such as water level recorders, stream flow gauges, and water analyzers.Stays human Hydrologic Technicians