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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Certified Flagger” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #511 of 702. Estimated risk: 87.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

47%

“Certified Flagger” will probably not be replaced by AI.

Based on the cognitive demands, communication requirements, and logical reasoning intrinsic to this occupation according to O*NET data, we project a 47% probability of disruption by generative AI and Large Language Models.

Automation & Robot Risk

60%

“Certified Flagger” will maybe be replaced by robots.

Evaluating the physical dexterity, repetitive motion tasks, and manual labor associated with this role, our analysis indicates a 60% likelihood of substitution by advanced robotics systems.

Personal & Financial Insights

Every occupation has a unique profile. For Highway Maintenance Workers, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET classify the day-to-day work broadly as: Maintain highways, municipal and rural roads, airport runways, and rights-of-way. Duties include patching broken or eroded pavement and repairing guard rails, highway markers, and snow fences. May also mow or clear brush from along road, or plow snow from roadway.

Avg. Annual Salary $51,410
Avg. Hourly Wage $24.72
Available Jobs (US) 151,750
Job Title & Hierarchy Code (SOC) Highway Maintenance Workers #47-4051
Wage vs. National Median
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Data is based on the reference occupation: “Highway Maintenance Workers”

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Core Skills & Abilities

  • Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.

  • Measure and mark locations for installation of markers, using tape, string, or chalk.

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

  • Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

  • Haul and spread sand, gravel, and clay to fill washouts and repair road shoulders.

  • Inspect, clean, and repair drainage systems, bridges, tunnels, and other structures.

  • Flag motorists to warn them of obstacles or repair work ahead.

  • Erect, install, or repair guardrails, road shoulders, berms, highway markers, warning signals, and highway lighting, using hand tools and power tools.

  • Place and remove snow fences used to prevent the accumulation of drifting snow on highways.

  • Remove litter and debris from roadways, including debris from rock and mud slides.

  • Paint traffic control lines and place pavement traffic messages, by hand or using machines.

  • Drive trucks to transport crews and equipment to work sites.

  • Drive heavy equipment and vehicles with adjustable attachments to sweep debris from paved surfaces, mow grass and weeds, remove snow and ice, and spread salt and sand.

  • Dump, spread, and tamp asphalt, using pneumatic tampers, to repair joints and patch broken pavement.

  • Set out signs and cones around work areas to divert traffic.

  • Apply poisons along roadsides and in animal burrows to eliminate unwanted roadside vegetation and rodents.

  • Perform roadside landscaping work, such as clearing weeds and brush, and planting and trimming trees.

  • Clean and clear debris from culverts, catch basins, drop inlets, ditches, and other drain structures.

  • Blend compounds to form adhesive mixtures used for marker installation.

Technologies & Software

  • Microsoft Word
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Gemini for Workspace
  • ChatGPT (OpenAI)
  • Word processing software
  • Buildots AI
  • Procore AI
  • Database software
  • Spreadsheet software
  • Web browser software
  • Autodesk Construction AI
  • Snow blowers
  • 13000-23000 pound graders
  • Tractor disc attachments
  • Truck low-bed trailer combos
  • Tanker trucks
  • Snowplows
  • Digger derricks
  • Asphalt reclaimers
  • Forklifts
  • Sewer cleaners
  • Chemical sprayers
  • Medium pressure hydraulic pumps
  • Patch rollers less than 9 tons
  • Swinging stages
  • Tire chains
  • Mud jacks
  • Steam cleaning equipment
  • Concrete paving vibrators
  • 10-ton crawlers
  • Bucket trucks
  • Snoopers
  • Circuit testing equipment
  • Four-wheel drive front end loaders
  • Two way radios
  • Rear flail mowers
  • Light trucks
  • Screwdrivers
  • Theodolites
  • Gas transporters
  • Front end loaders
  • Air compressors
  • Computerized weed spray trucks
  • Hydraulic excavators
  • 30-ton clam buckets
  • Concrete groovers
  • Scissor trucks
  • Berm drag tractors
  • Self-propelled cranes
  • Culvert cleaners
  • Aggregate spreaders
  • Swiss hammers
  • Harrows
  • Water pumps
  • Laser printers
  • Self-propelled sweepers
  • Athey loaders
  • Transport trucks
  • Sandblasters
  • Weedeaters
  • Concrete saws
  • Vans
  • Picks
  • Chip spreaders
  • Desktop computers
  • Chain saws
  • Stone box spreaders
  • Hammers
  • Bulldozers
  • Self-propelled road wideners
  • Bituminous pavers
  • Pull type pavers
  • Truck mounted cranes
  • Paint mixers
  • Towable barricades
  • Power screeds
  • Rotary snowplows
  • Impact wrenches
  • 10-ton tandem-axle dump trucks
  • Spades
  • Graders
  • Pavement grinders
  • Cold planers
  • Jackhammers
  • Side-mount rotary mowers
  • Compactors
  • Belly dump tractor trailers
  • Ditchers
  • Water trucks
  • Portable welding equipment
  • Sand spreaders
  • Wheeled hydraulic booms
  • Windrow loaders
  • Cherry pickers
  • Two-wheel drive front end loaders
  • Adjustable widemouth pliers
  • Tow brooms
  • Power saws
  • Truck mounted excavators
  • Mounted pavement breakers
  • Laydown machines
  • 4-6 ton roller patchers
  • Rear brush hog mowers
  • Adjustable wrenches
  • Rock drills
  • Push mowers
  • Sewer eels
  • Hole diggers/augers
  • Side dozers
  • Graffiti removing lasers
  • Low boys
  • Pothole excavation milling machines
  • Brush chippers
  • Hydraulic spreaders
  • Tractor-mounted mowers
  • Tar distributors
  • Paint guns
  • Tar kettles
  • 8-ton dump trucks
  • Concrete mixers
  • Epoxy guns
  • Personal computers
  • Pavement rollers
  • Dump trucks
  • Machetes
  • Rakes
  • Paint transfer pumps
  • Heavy trucks
  • Pressure washers
  • Bush axes
  • Platform trucks
  • Draglines
  • Rock cutters
  • Pavement joint sealers
  • Measuring wheels
  • Generators
  • Stump cutters
  • Pneumatic tampers
  • High-pressure hydraulic pumps
  • Pile drivers
  • Scaffolding
  • Seeders
  • Boom trucks
  • Shovels
  • Truck-mounted pavement striping machines
  • Multipurpose vacuum street sweepers
  • Power broom street sweepers
  • Thermoplastic applicators
  • Flatbed trailers
  • Gradalls
  • Oil heating burners
  • Catch basin vacuum cleaners

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