🤖 BARBIE MODE ACTIVATED 💗    Your adblocker was detected!    Comic Sans has been applied as cosmic punishment 💅    Ads keep this database FREE — please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info!    ✨ Everything is pink and that's entirely your fault ✨    🌸                     🤖 BARBIE MODE ACTIVATED 💗    Your adblocker was detected!    Comic Sans has been applied as cosmic punishment 💅    Ads keep this database FREE — please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info!    ✨ Everything is pink and that's entirely your fault ✨    🌸                     
Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Gutter Installer” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #453 of 702. Estimated risk: 82.0%

Directly assessed by researchers as likely automatable
Advertisement

A robot took your ad!

Ads keep this free database of 57,000+ jobs alive. Please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info — we promise our ads are tasteful!

AI Exposure Risk

38%

“Gutter Installer” will probably not be replaced by AI.

Based on the cognitive demands, communication requirements, and logical reasoning intrinsic to this occupation according to O*NET data, we project a 38% probability of disruption by generative AI and Large Language Models.

Automation & Robot Risk

59%

“Gutter Installer” will maybe be replaced by robots.

Evaluating the physical dexterity, repetitive motion tasks, and manual labor associated with this role, our analysis indicates a 59% likelihood of substitution by advanced robotics systems.

Personal & Financial Insights

Every occupation has a unique profile. For Sheet Metal Workers, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET classify the day-to-day work broadly as: Fabricate, assemble, install, and repair sheet metal products and equipment, such as ducts, control boxes, drainpipes, and furnace casings. Work may involve any of the following: setting up and operating fabricating machines to cut, bend, and straighten sheet metal; shaping metal over anvils, blocks, or forms using hammer; operating soldering and welding equipment to join sheet metal parts; or inspecting, assembling, and smoothing seams and joints of burred surfaces. Includes sheet metal duct installers who install prefabricated sheet metal ducts used for heating, air conditioning, or other purposes.

Avg. Annual Salary $66,110
Avg. Hourly Wage $31.78
Available Jobs (US) 117,470
Job Title & Hierarchy Code (SOC) Sheet Metal Workers #47-2211
Wage vs. National Median
ℹ️

Data is based on the reference occupation: “Sheet Metal Workers”

Advertisement

A robot took your ad!

Ads keep this free database of 57,000+ jobs alive. Please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info — we promise our ads are tasteful!

Core Skills & Abilities

  • Verify that heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems are designed, installed, and calibrated in accordance with green certification standards, such as those of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED).

  • Finish parts, using hacksaws or hand, rotary, or squaring shears.

  • Determine project requirements, such as scope, assembly sequences, or required methods or materials, using blueprints, drawings, or written or verbal instructions.

  • Transport prefabricated parts to construction sites for assembly and installation.

  • Inspect individual parts, assemblies, or installations, using measuring instruments, such as calipers, scales, or micrometers.

  • Fabricate or alter parts at construction sites, using shears, hammers, punches, or drills.

  • Fasten roof panel edges or machine-made moldings to structures by nailing or welding.

  • Lay out, measure, and mark dimensions and reference lines on material, such as roofing panels, using calculators, scribes, dividers, squares, or rulers.

  • Trim, file, grind, deburr, buff, or smooth surfaces, seams, or joints of assembled parts, using hand tools or portable power tools.

  • Fasten seams or joints together with welds, bolts, cement, rivets, solder, caulks, metal drive clips, or bonds to assemble components into products or to repair sheet metal items.

  • Perform building commissioning activities by completing mechanical inspections of a building's water, lighting, or heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems.

  • Convert blueprints into shop drawings to be followed in the construction or assembly of sheet metal products.

  • Select gauges or types of sheet metal or nonmetallic material, according to product specifications.

  • Hire, train, or supervise new employees or apprentices.

  • Maintain equipment, making repairs or modifications when necessary.

  • Fabricate ducts for high efficiency heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems to maximize efficiency of systems.

  • Shape metal material over anvils, blocks, or other forms, using hand tools.

  • Install assemblies, such as flashing, pipes, tubes, heating and air conditioning ducts, furnace casings, rain gutters, or downspouts in supportive frameworks.

  • Maneuver completed roofing units into position for installation.

Technologies & Software

  • Siemens NX
  • ChatGPT (OpenAI)
  • Buildots AI
  • XY Soft Sheet Cutting Suite
  • Autodesk AutoCAD
  • Striker Systems SS-Profile
  • Microsoft Excel
  • FCC Software AutoPOL Series
  • Applied Production ProFab
  • Gemini for Workspace
  • Applied Production ProFold
  • Spreadsheet software
  • Corte Certo
  • Microsoft Office software
  • WiCAM PN4000
  • Merry Mechanization SMP/IS
  • Procore AI
  • JETCAM Expert
  • Autodesk Construction AI
  • Computer aided design CAD software
  • QuickPen DuctDesigner 3D
  • Microsoft Word
  • Revcad Software Sheet Lightning
  • PTC Creo Parametric
  • Computer aided manufacturing CAM software
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Pitot tubes
  • Hand dollies
  • Hydraulic hoists
  • Aviation snips
  • Safety gloves
  • Safety goggles
  • Pneumatic riveters
  • Angle grinders
  • Bumping hammers
  • Cold chisels
  • Humidity sensors
  • Nibblers
  • Setting hammers
  • Power notchers
  • Hydraulic presses
  • Screwdrivers
  • Computer controlled saws
  • Power presses
  • Protective clothing
  • Portable spot welders
  • Squares
  • Caulking guns
  • Inclined manometers
  • Ammeters
  • Protractors
  • Chalk lines
  • Ladders
  • Bolt cutters
  • Turning machines
  • Spirit levels
  • Circular saws
  • Clamp-on ammeters
  • Combination snips
  • Draft gauges
  • Digital multimeters
  • Groovers
  • Multimeters
  • Ring and circular shears
  • Personal computers
  • Chain hoists
  • Electric drills
  • Rivet presses
  • Riveting tools
  • Magnehelic pressure gauges
  • Cold-cut saws
  • Trammel points
  • Riveting hammers
  • Laser printers
  • Templates
  • Power buffers
  • Easy edgers
  • Strobe tachometers
  • Pneumatic impact wrenches
  • Desktop computers
  • Foot shears
  • Polishers
  • T squares
  • Tempscribes
  • Portable plasma cutters
  • Straightedges
  • Hand crimpers
  • Center punches
  • Pipe threaders
  • AC welding power units
  • Cleat formers
  • Adjustable wrenches
  • Seamers
  • Drifts
  • Stencils
  • Bar folders
  • Scale rulers
  • Vernier calipers
  • Wiring machines
  • Beam compasses
  • Burring machines
  • Rotary punches
  • Cordless drills
  • Squaring shears
  • Cleat folders
  • Power punches
  • Pipe reamers
  • Power brakes
  • C clamps
  • Scaffolding
  • Hand brakes
  • Power shears
  • Power sanders
  • Tap sets
  • Ohmmeters
  • Computer controlled presses
  • Drill presses
  • Pressure gauges
  • Plasma cutters
  • Slip roll formers
  • Scratch awls
  • Pop rivet guns
  • Carbon dioxide CO2 monitors
  • Vise grip pliers
  • Tongs
  • Hole punches
  • Combustion analyzers
  • Scribers
  • Hand notchers
  • Prick punches
  • Set squares
  • Side cutting pliers
  • Laser cutters
  • Adjustable widemouth pliers
  • Tungsten inert gas TIG welding equipment
  • Stack thermometers
  • V-notchers
  • Hoists
  • Smoke testers
  • Dial indicators
  • Spot welders
  • Tape measures
  • Welding helmets
  • Laser levels
  • Box and pan brakes
  • Plumb bobs
  • Dividers
  • Double seaming equipment
  • Velometers
  • Oxygen testers
  • Punches
  • Socket wrench sets
  • AC/DC welding power units
  • Hacksaws
  • Single-cut mill saw files
  • Unishears
  • Millivolt meters
  • Micrometers
  • Pneumatic hammers
  • Slings
  • Safety glasses
  • Ball peen hammers
  • Hammers
  • Nut drivers
  • Transit levels
  • Welding facial shields
  • Welding tips
  • Calipers
  • U-tube manometers
  • Metal inert gas MIG welders
  • Pipe cutters
  • Cutoff saws
  • Wire cutters
  • Hard hats
  • Calibrated flow hoods
  • Power routers
  • Microamp meters
  • Bandsaws
  • Hammer drills
  • Spiral duct machines
  • Dimplers
  • Beading machines
  • Oxyacetylene welding equipment
  • Allen wrenches
  • Electric impact wrenches
  • Mechanical tachometers
  • Psychrometers
  • Framing squares
  • Jigs
  • Soldering furnaces
  • Acoustic ear muffs or defenders

Alternative Job Titles