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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “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%

“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%

“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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

  • Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

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

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

  • Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

Technologies & Software

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

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