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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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.

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

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

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

Technologies & Software

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

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