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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Material Handler” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #511 of 702. Estimated risk: 87.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

47%

“Material Handler” 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%

“Material Handler” 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 roadside landscaping work, such as clearing weeds and brush, and planting and trimming trees.

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

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

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

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

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

  • Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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