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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Highway Maintenance Technician” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #511 of 702. Estimated risk: 87.0%

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

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Core Skills & Abilities

  • 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.

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

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

  • Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

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

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

  • Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.

  • 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.

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Technologies & Software

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

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