Team Assemblers
Work as part of a team having responsibility for assembling an entire product or component of a product. Team assemblers can perform all tasks conducted by the team in the assembly process and rotate through all or most of them, rather than being assigned to a specific task on a permanent basis. May participate in making management decisions affecting the work. Includes team leaders who work as part of the team.
$44,650 a year (for the broader BLS group this job sits in).
of the working time. Estimate.
- 18%
- 0%
- 82%
Anthropic's data does not cover this job.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
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, 1%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 17%. Today's estimate: 18%.
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 . 11 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rotate through all the tasks required in a particular production process.Done daily by most who do it. | 30% | 1.7 h25 min to 5 h | Stays with people | |
| Supervise assemblers and train employees on job procedures.Done daily by most who do it. | 18% | 1.7 h25 min to 3.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Perform quality checks on products and parts.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 10% | 21 min8 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Provide assistance in the production of wiring assemblies.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 9% | 38 min17 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Review work orders and blueprints to ensure work is performed according to specifications.Done daily by most who do it. | 9% | 25 min8 min to 1.3 h | 97%Half by now | |
| Determine work assignments and procedures.Done daily by most who do it. | 6% | 38 min13 min to 1.7 h | 95%Half by now | |
| Maintain production equipment and machinery.Done daily by most who do it. | 6% | 1.1 h17 min to 2.1 h | Stays with people | |
| Package finished products and prepare them for shipment.Done daily by most who do it. | 5% | 33 min13 min to 1.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Complete production reports to communicate team production level to management.Done daily by most who do it. | 3% | 25 min8 min to 50 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Shovel, sweep, or otherwise clean work areas.Done daily by most who do it. | 3% | 17 min8 min to 38 min | Stays with people | |
| Operate machinery and heavy equipment, such as forklifts.Done daily by most who do it. | 1% | 25 min13 min to 1.3 h | Stays with people |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
Jobs that share skills with this one
From O*NET's related occupations. Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
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Where this job works
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