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How exposed to AI is a Food Cooking Machine Operators and Tender?

Of the 17 tasks O*NET lists for food cooking machine operators and tenders, 0 could be done in half the time with a chat window today. 16 cannot be sped up at all. Here is which.

Exposure means published research judged an AI could halve the time a task takes, at the same quality. It does not mean the task stops needing a person. How to read this

Also called
Cooker OperatorFood Production WorkerFryer OperatorKettle Fry Cook OperatorMachine OperatorMogul OperatorOven OperatorPeeler OperatorRetort OperatorThermo Processor
Reachable today Needs software built first Cannot be sped up
17
tasks rated for this occupation
0%
hold a degree, from a survey of only 17
27k
people do this job in the US
81 of 107
least protected in production

Every task, and what AI can do with it

These are O*NET's task statements for this occupation, exactly as written, sorted into the three bands by the ratings behind this report. Nothing has been reworded.

Only with software built on top

1
  • Record production and test data, such as processing steps, temperature and steam readings, cooking time, batches processed, and test results

Cannot be sped up

16
  • Clean, wash, and sterilize equipment and cooking area, using water hoses, cleaning or sterilizing solutions, or rinses
  • Read work orders, recipes, or formulas to determine cooking times and temperatures, and ingredient specifications
  • Observe gauges, dials, and product characteristics, and adjust controls to maintain appropriate temperature, pressure, and flow of ingredients
  • Measure or weigh ingredients, using scales or measuring containers
  • Tend or operate and control equipment, such as kettles, cookers, vats and tanks, and boilers, to cook ingredients or prepare products for further processing
  • Set temperature, pressure, and time controls, and start conveyers, machines, or pumps
  • Remove cooked material or products from equipment
  • Collect and examine product samples during production to test them for quality, color, content, consistency, viscosity, acidity, or specific gravity
  • Pour, dump, or load prescribed quantities of ingredients or products into cooking equipment, manually or using a hoist
  • Listen for malfunction alarms, and shut down equipment and notify supervisors when necessary
  • Notify or signal other workers to operate equipment or when processing is complete
  • Turn valves or start pumps to add ingredients or drain products from equipment and to transfer products for storage, cooling, or further processing
  • Admit required amounts of water, steam, cooking oils, or compressed air into equipment, such as by opening water valves to cool mixtures to the desired consistency
  • Activate agitators and paddles to mix or stir ingredients, stopping machines when ingredients are thoroughly mixed
  • Operate auxiliary machines and equipment, such as grinders, canners, and molding presses, to prepare or further process products
  • Place products on conveyors or carts, and monitor product flow
What this does not say

This is not a prediction about your job

Nobody surveyed an employer. Tasks are counted equally, so a percentage here is a share of the list rather than a share of your week. And the ratings were made in 2023, which makes every figure a floor rather than a ceiling.

It must never be used to select anyone for redundancy. The full limits are here.

Where to go next

This is the standard task list for the title. The useful next question is which of the tasks you actually do should go near AI, and which should not.

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Exposure ratings from Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, GPTs are GPTs: Labor market impact potential of LLMs, Science 384, 1306–1308, 2024, used under the MIT licence. This page includes information from the O*NET Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. People Team AI has modified all or some of this information. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications. Employment figures from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.