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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Road Sign Installer” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #511 of 702. Estimated risk: 87.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

47%

“Road Sign Installer” 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%

“Road Sign Installer” 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 preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

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

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

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

Technologies & Software

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

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