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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Highway Technician Associate” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #511 of 702. Estimated risk: 87.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

47%

“Highway Technician Associate” 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 Technician Associate” 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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.

  • Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

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

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

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