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The core work — winding wire onto forms, taping and insulating coils, dipping and lacing leads, checking turns counts and continuity — is repetitive bench work already handled by CNC winding machines and automated taping lines in high-volume plants. What keeps the remaining 12,840 jobs alive is low-volume, large, or odd-geometry work (traction motors, custom transformers, motor rewind shops) where fixturing an automated line isn't worth it, plus hand finishing and machine tending. That's a shrinking niche, and the pressure comes from mechanical automation and offshoring rather than language AI.
Mixed — a routine tier and a judgment tier. A 10 reflects the split: programmable winding machines already handle turns counting, wire tensioning, and layer indexing on standard bobbins, but hand-taping a 4,000 lb traction motor stator, lacing leads in a rewind shop, and stripping and re-forming burnt field coils still need a person at the bench, which is why this sits mid-band rather than down at 4.
Some physical or field component. An 11 is right because the work is physical — feeding wire, dipping coils in varnish, working around hot ovens and solvent fumes, lifting stator frames — but it happens at a fixed bench or machine station inside a plant with jigs and fixtures, not out in an uncontrolled field environment like a lineworker or millwright.
No licence, no signature requirement. A 1 is accurate: nothing you do requires a state licence or certification card, the coil ships under the manufacturer's UL or IEEE insulation-class listing, and if a winding fails hipot or shorts in service it's the plant's QC and engineering signatures that answer for it, not yours.
Anonymous artifact production. A 2 fits because the customer buys a motor or transformer and never learns who wound it; a coil that passes continuity, turns ratio, and surge comparison tests is interchangeable with one wound by any other shop, and purchasing decisions turn on price and lead time.
Executes defined procedures on defined inputs. A 4 acknowledges the real calls you make — spotting a nicked enamel before it becomes a turn-to-turn short, deciding a varnish dip needs a second pass, judging tension on fine wire — but these are read against a winding sheet, print, and spec sheet that already fix turns, wire gauge, and insulation class, with a supervisor or engineer owning any deviation.
Sheet Metal Workers SAFE
Maintenance Workers, Machinery EXPOSED
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