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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.

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

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

  • 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.

  • Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

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

Technologies & Software

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

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