Automotive electrician
Also called auto technician, car electrician, van electrician
Automotive electricians install, maintain and repair electrical and electronic systems in motor vehicles such as air conditioning systems, lamps, radios, heating systems, batteries, electrical wiring and alternators. They use diagnostic testing equipment to inspect vehicles and find faults. To do repair work, they use hand tools and specialised electrical instruments and machines.
What you'd do
Electrical mechanics and fitters · ILO- Fitting, adjusting and repairing various kinds of electrical machinery and motors, generators, switchgear and control apparatus, instruments, or electrical parts of elevators and related equipment
- Fitting, adjusting and repairing electrical parts in domestic appliances, industrial machines and other appliances
- Inspecting and testing manufactured electrical products
- Installing, testing, connecting, commissioning, maintaining and modifying electrical equipment, wiring and control systems
- Designing, installing, maintaining, servicing and repairing electric and hydraulic passenger and freight lifts, escalators, moving walkways and other lift equipment
- Connecting electrical systems to power supply
- Replacing and repairing defective parts
- Indoors
- On your feet most of the day
- Lots of contact with people
- Good freedom to decide
- Often more than 40 hours a week
- Deadlines every day
- Some repetitive tasks
Will there be jobs?
Yes, good prospects16 EU countries are short of electrical mechanics and fitters now, and a typical number of jobs will need filling by 2035.
Solid: measured. Dashed: forecast.
What does it pay?
About averagePay depends a lot on the country: from about €1,200 a month (Bulgaria) to €5,600 (Denmark), before tax.
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Among craft and related trades workers in the EU, women earn 26% less per hour than men. Craft and related trades workers · Eurostat
What do I need to study?
Upper secondary or vocationalUpper secondary or vocational training in electricity and energy is the usual route.
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Will AI change it?
Very littleAI could help with only small parts of the tasks.
Average task score 0.17 on a scale from 0 (AI can't do it) to 1 (AI could do it fully).
See the score for each of the 7 tasks
Based on what AI could technically do when assessed in 2025. It is not a forecast for a future year, and not a forecast of job losses. Scores for electrical mechanics and fitters. Source: ILO (2025), adapted (credits).