How exposed to AI is the job of Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons?

0.0% of the weighted task load of Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons is exposed, meaning work current AI systems can produce with little structural friction. A further 0.0% is assisted work and 100.0% is untouched. That places it 0th out of 923 occupations, rank 919, in release v2026.Q3 of the Task Exposure Index.

Will AI replace Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons?

The index does not measure displacement. It measures what current AI systems can produce and what stands in the way. Whether exposed work becomes a lost job depends on firm economics, regulation and organisational inertia, none of which this index models.

Occupation · SOC 49-9045.00 · Job Zone 2

AI exposure: Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons

Q: Which tasks of a Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons are most exposed to AI?

Of 10 tasks O*NET records for this occupation, 0 are exposed, 0 assisted and 10 untouched. The full task-by-task breakdown is published on this page.

Build or repair equipment such as furnaces, kilns, cupolas, boilers, converters, ladles, soaking pits, and ovens, using refractory materials.

Reading this score

computed

Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons is among the least exposed occupations measured, at 0.0% of weighted task load, rank 919 of 923. 100.0% of this job is work current AI systems cannot produce at all. That is not a statement about skill or value. It is a statement about what these systems can and cannot do.

What holds the line here is embodiment. Across this occupation's 10 tasks it averages 3.00 out of 3, the highest of the five friction dimensions. In plain terms, the work has to happen in physical space. A language model cannot move matter. Until the robotics to do this work is both good enough and cheap enough to deploy widely, capability in software does not reach it.

The most exposed thing this job does is Reline or repair ladles and pouring spouts with refractory clay, at 0.0%. The least is Transfer clay structures to curing ovens, melting tanks, and drawing kilns, at 0.0%. A gap of 0.0% between two parts of the same job is the reason this index publishes at task level. An occupation-wide number would have hidden both.

Within installation, maintenance and repair occupations, this one is less exposed than the median of 13.8% across the group's 50 roles, with 49 scoring higher. Being in an exposed family does not make a particular job exposed, and the reverse holds too.

What would move this score. Of 10 tasks, 0 are currently banded exposed, 0 assisted and 10 untouched. For that distribution to shift materially would take robotics cheap and reliable enough to deploy at scale, not a better language model. The score is re-computed every quarter against a fresh capability reference, and the change is published rather than quietly applied.

Where the score comes from

judged

Every task is scored through the standardised work activities it maps to. These are this occupation’s averages on the six rubric dimensions. Capability is what AI can do; the other five are what stands in the way.

Dimension	Mean	Scale
Capability	0.00	0-4
Embodiment	3.00	0-3
Presence	0.20	0-3
Accountability	0.70	0-3
Context	1.15	0-3
Verification cost	1.25	0-3

Task by task

10 tasks, O*NET 31.0

Task	Exposed	Assisted	Untouched	Importance	Band
Reline or repair ladles and pouring spouts with refractory clay, using trowels.	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	4.20	untouched
Chip slag from linings of ladles or remove linings when beyond repair, using hammers and chisels.	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	3.74	untouched
Mix specified amounts of sand, clay, mortar powder, and water to form refractory clay or mortar, using shovels or mixing machines.	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	3.64	untouched
Measure furnace walls to determine dimensions and cut required number of sheets from plastic block, using saws.	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	4.31	untouched
Dry and bake new linings by placing inverted linings over burners, building fires in ladles, or by using blowtorches.	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	3.96	untouched
Remove worn or damaged plastic block refractory linings of furnaces, using hand tools.	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	3.86	untouched
Climb scaffolding, carrying hoses, and spray surfaces of cupolas with refractory mixtures, using spray equipment.	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	3.67	untouched
Spread mortar on stopper heads and rods, using trowels, and slide brick sleeves over rods to form refractory jackets.	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	3.55	untouched
Dump and tamp clay in molds, using tamping tools.	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	3.32	untouched
Transfer clay structures to curing ovens, melting tanks, and drawing kilns, using forklifts.	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	3.21	untouched

Task text and importance ratings sourced from O*NET 31.0. Shares computed. The occupation score is the importance-weighted mean.

Occupations either side of this one

The four closest scores in the same occupational family, then the four closest anywhere in the index.

Read this carefully. Exposure is not displacement. A high score means current AI systems can produce this work, not that anyone will stop paying a person to do it. Adoption depends on economics, regulation and inertia that this index deliberately does not model. How the score is built.

What this means in practice

Most of this work is not reachable by current systems, so the immediate pressure is on the administrative edges of the role rather than its core: the scheduling, the reporting, the written records. That is where time is recovered.