Let protectors operate them. Proctors get minimal powers already, and Security is not always around!
Edit: Grammar

Oooor.. get your guild to instate more Security?

yeas, but the protectors become more obselete, plus security have other things they need to do to (enemy, fight better then protectors, ect.)

Do protectors have anything special they can do that any person of the same guildrank in the guild couldn't do? Can't think of any, except maybe enemy people.

Not that I recall, as an Undersec I had enemy so it can't be exclusive to Protector and Security.

Protectors get guild enemy, but not Commune/city enemy. thats why I think they should get this

Except if a Protector isn't trusted to commune/city enemy.. why should they be trusted to run a Collosus that can pretty much start a war?

Cause it needs an artisan to build it! Also a lone colossus (from what it sounds like) can't do much

Protector > Security. My drugged out brain can't remember why, but I think it has something to do with karma for griefing and dodging responsibilities

And on that note, yah, protectors should also be able to operate constructs.

This sounds like a guild problem, not a game problem. If you can't enemy or use the machines, get yourself promoted - don't instigate a mechanical change to accomodate you.