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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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

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