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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Quick Technician” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #511 of 702. Estimated risk: 87.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

47%

“Quick 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%

“Quick 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

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

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

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

  • Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

  • 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.

  • Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Technologies & Software

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

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