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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Maintenance Repairer” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #511 of 702. Estimated risk: 87.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

47%

“Maintenance Repairer” 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 Repairer” 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

  • Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

  • 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.

Technologies & Software

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

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