Geothermal Production Managers
Manage operations at geothermal power generation facilities. Maintain and monitor geothermal plant equipment for efficient and safe plant operations.
$126,060 a year (for the broader BLS group this job sits in).
of the working time. Estimate.
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- 24%
Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
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At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 0%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 9%. Today's estimate: 13%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
The tasks
Sorted by . 17 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Develop operating plans and schedules for geothermal operations.Done daily by most who do it. | 15% | 1.3 work days3.3 h to 2.5 work days | 3%Half by Sep 2027 | |
| Develop or manage budgets for geothermal operations.Done daily by most who do it. | 15% | 1.7 work days3.3 h to 4.2 work days | 2%Half by Feb 2028 | |
| Oversee geothermal plant operations, maintenance, and repairs to ensure compliance with applicable standards or regulations.Done daily by most who do it. | 12% | 3.3 h50 min to 6.7 h | 32%Half by Jan 2027 | |
| Identify opportunities to improve plant electrical equipment, controls, or process control methodologies.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 9% | 6.7 h1.7 h to 2.5 work days | 8%Half by Sep 2027 | |
| Supervise employees in geothermal power plants or well fields.Done daily by most who do it. | 9% | 1.7 h25 min to 5 h | Stays with people | |
| Identify and evaluate equipment, procedural, or conditional inefficiencies involving geothermal plant systems.Done daily by most who do it. | 7% | 3.3 h50 min to 1.7 work days | 21%Half by May 2027 | |
| Select and implement corrosion control or mitigation systems for geothermal plants.Done yearly or less by most who do it. | 6% | 2.1 work days6.7 h to 1.7 work weeks | 1%Half by Apr 2028 | |
| Conduct well field site assessments.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 6% | 6.7 h1.7 h to 1.7 work days | Stays with people | |
| Inspect geothermal plant or injection well fields to verify proper equipment operations.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 5% | 2.5 h50 min to 5 h | Stays with people | |
| Perform or direct the performance of preventative maintenance on geothermal plant equipment.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 4% | 2.5 h50 min to 7.5 h | Stays with people | |
| Monitor geothermal operations, using programmable logic controllers.Done daily by most who do it. | 4% | 1.3 h25 min to 3.3 h | 77%Half by now | |
| Prepare environmental permit applications or compliance reports.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 2% | 2.1 work days6.7 h to 1 work week | 0%Half by Feb 2028 |
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