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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Maintenance Operator” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #511 of 702. Estimated risk: 87.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

47%

“Maintenance Operator” 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%

“Maintenance Operator” 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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.

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

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

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