🤖 BARBIE MODE ACTIVATED 💗    Your adblocker was detected!    Comic Sans has been applied as cosmic punishment 💅    Ads keep this database FREE — please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info!    ✨ Everything is pink and that's entirely your fault ✨    🌸                     🤖 BARBIE MODE ACTIVATED 💗    Your adblocker was detected!    Comic Sans has been applied as cosmic punishment 💅    Ads keep this database FREE — please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info!    ✨ Everything is pink and that's entirely your fault ✨    🌸                     
Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Highway Maintenance Technician” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #511 of 702. Estimated risk: 87.0%

Advertisement

A robot took your ad!

Ads keep this free database of 57,000+ jobs alive. Please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info — we promise our ads are tasteful!

AI Exposure Risk

47%

“Highway Maintenance Technician” 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%

“Highway Maintenance Technician” 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
ℹ️

Data is based on the reference occupation: “Highway Maintenance Workers”

Advertisement

A robot took your ad!

Ads keep this free database of 57,000+ jobs alive. Please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info — we promise our ads are tasteful!

Related Occupations & Automation Risk

Construction and Building Inspectors

AI Risk 57%
Robot Risk 36%

Energy Auditors

AI Risk 56%
Robot Risk 43%

Helpers--Electricians

AI Risk 51%
Robot Risk 57%

Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters

AI Risk 50%
Robot Risk 63%

Construction Laborers

AI Risk 48%
Robot Risk 56%

Solar Photovoltaic Installers

AI Risk 48%
Robot Risk 57%

Core Skills & Abilities

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

  • Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

  • 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.

  • Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.

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

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

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

Technologies & Software

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

Alternative Job Titles