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AI Automation Index
Will AI Replace Geothermal Production Managers?
Task-level automation exposure for Geothermal Production Managers: 17 O*NET tasks scored against their work activities, plus the simulator.
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47%
weighted task index
17 of 17 tasks scored
Median Salary
$126,060 / year
BLS OEWS, May 2025 — this exact occupation
Employment Level
High
246,250 people hold this job — size, not growth
Projected 2025–35
+2.6%
employment change
17,000 openings a year · BLS line item
Pay by state
BLS OEWS publishes 52 state estimates for this occupation. Each is its own survey estimate, not the national median adjusted for local prices.
$100,470 – $153,000
Highest medians
Delaware $153,000
Wyoming $151,490
Massachusetts $148,050
New Jersey $147,260
New Hampshire $146,590
Lowest medians
Guam $100,470
Iowa $106,510
Nebraska $107,200
Idaho $107,340
South Dakota $107,490
State figures come from the 11-3051 row in the May 2025 state panel. States where the estimate was suppressed or too small to publish are absent.
What the score is made of
Each task is mapped to its work activities, scored for AI automation potential, and weighted by how important those activities are to the job. These are the components.
Automation potential 47%
Importance-weighted mean of the scored tasks. This is the headline index.
Physical work 10%
Share of weighted tasks in hands-on or machine-operating work activities.
Judgment & influence 46%
Share in analysis, decisions, teaching, directing, advising, or caring for others.
Routine administration 14%
Share in documenting, recording, and administrative activities.
Rewritten by O*NET 0%
Share of weighted tasks O*NET rewrote in a recent update. Reported, not folded into the score.
Consequence of error 68/100
High
O*NET's own rating of how serious an uncorrectable mistake would be here — respondents, not us. Deliberately not in the index: the score measures what AI can do with the task content, and multiplying it by stakes would be our judgment dressed as data.
Constituent Task Mix
17 tasks for this occupation, weighted by work-activity importance. Shares below are of total task weight, not task count.
High exposure (≥ 60% of the task is automatable) 45%
8 tasks
Medium exposure (≥ 35%) 23%
4 tasks
Low exposure (below 35%) 31%
5 tasks
How would you survive?
Move your week away from the high-exposure tasks and toward the ones that need judgment. The simulator recalculates the index as you shift the mix.
Simulate Upskilling →Emerging & rewritten tasks
Tasks O*NET added or rewrote for this occupation in its recent updates (05/2025 – 08/2026), with who proposed them. Additions are not in the scored task inventory — they are new work O*NET is still measuring, so they appear here and nowhere in the index. A Revision replaces a task that is scored, which is why only those move the "Rewritten by O*NET" share.
- New 07/2011 · Incumbent
Conduct employee safety training.
Constituent Tasks
#15446 · Core · 28% automatable
Supervise employees in geothermal power plants or well fields.
interpersonal — Directing workers in the field is human supervision
Supervise workers performing environmentally sustainable activities.
#15447 · Core · 25% automatable
Oversee geothermal plant operations, maintenance, and repairs to ensure compliance with applicable standards or regulations.
decision support — Plant operations direction needs real-time human control
Direct green energy production operations. Direct maintenance and repair activities in green energy production facilities.
#15434 · Core · 60% automatable
Communicate geothermal plant conditions to employees.
text generation — AI drafts green energy communications; human reviews
Communicate green energy production information.
#15443 · Core · 40% automatable
Identify and evaluate equipment, procedural, or conditional inefficiencies involving geothermal plant systems.
visual inspection — Facility monitoring needs deployed sensors and physical inspection
Monitor green energy equipment, systems, or facilities.
#15439 · Core · 17% automatable
Perform or direct the performance of preventative maintenance on geothermal plant equipment.
physical manipulation — Facility maintenance direction requires hands-on site oversight
Maintain green energy production plant equipment. Direct facility maintenance or repair activities.
#15448 · Core · 35% automatable
Inspect geothermal plant or injection well fields to verify proper equipment operations.
visual inspection — Facility inspection requires physical presence and sensory judgment
Inspect operations of green energy facilities.
#15445 · Core · 68% automatable
Develop or manage budgets for geothermal operations.
data analysis — Green operational budget drafting from cost assumptions
Prepare operational budgets for green energy or other green operations.
#15433 · Core · 32% automatable
Select and implement corrosion control or mitigation systems for geothermal plants.
interpersonal — Policy implementation requires organizational authority and change management
Implement organizational process or policy changes. Direct green energy production operations.
#15444 · Core · 60% automatable
Develop operating plans and schedules for geothermal operations.
text generation — Strategies drafted; operational feasibility human-owned
Develop operating strategies, plans, or procedures for green or sustainable operations.
#15436 · Core · 72% automatable
Record, review, or maintain daily logs, reports, maintenance, and other records associated with geothermal operations.
data analysis — Maintain sustainability records; human owns compliance
Maintain operational records for green energy processes or other environmentally-sustainable activities.
#15441 · Core · 40% automatable
Monitor geothermal operations, using programmable logic controllers.
visual inspection — Facility monitoring needs deployed sensors and physical inspection
Monitor green energy equipment, systems, or facilities.
#15432 · Core · 65% automatable
Conduct well field site assessments.
decision support — Potential assessment aided by research, human decides
Evaluate potential of products, technologies, or resources.
#15442 · Core · 72% automatable
Identify opportunities to improve plant electrical equipment, controls, or process control methodologies.
data analysis — AI analyzes operations to flag efficiency gains
Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency.
#15437 · Supplemental · 75% automatable
Prepare environmental permit applications or compliance reports.
text generation — Fill forms from provided information
Prepare forms or applications. Prepare reports related to compliance matters.
#15440 · Supplemental · 35% automatable
Negotiate interconnection agreements with other utilities.
interpersonal — Contract negotiation needs authority and accountability
Negotiate contracts for environmental remediation, green energy, or renewable resources.
#15438 · Supplemental · 80% automatable
Obtain permits for constructing, upgrading, or operating geothermal power plants.
text generation — Fill forms from provided information
Prepare forms or applications.
#15435 · Supplemental · 8% automatable
Troubleshoot and make minor repairs to geothermal plant instrumentation or electrical systems.
physical manipulation — Physical plant equipment maintenance
Maintain green energy production plant equipment.
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How this was scored
- 1. Tasks. O*NET task statements for this occupation, from a release whose newest record is dated 08/2026.
- 2. Work activities. Each task maps to 1–5 Detailed Work Activities; each activity belongs to one of 41 Generalized Work Activities that O*NET rates for importance (1–5) in this occupation.
- 3. Automation potential. Every work activity carries one score for how far current AI can perform it end-to-end. Tasks inherit the mean of their activities.
- 4. Weighting. Task weight = 0.35 + 0.65 × (importance − 1)/4, scaled by how often the task is performed and by 0.7 for Supplemental tasks. Importance is the task's own O*NET rating where it exists (18,369 of 18,838 tasks); the rest inherit their work activities' importance. The index is the weighted mean.
Check: across the 910 occupations where O*NET also rates how far machine speed sets the pace, this index moves opposite to it (Spearman ρ = -0.49). The more a job is paced by equipment, the less of its task content AI can address — the relationship you would expect if the scoring is working.
Sources · O*NET 31.0 (task records to 08/2026) · BLS OEWS May 2025 · BLS projections 2025-2035 · rubric v2.1 · tasks for O*NET, not a forecast
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