Will “Equipment Operator (EO)” be Replaced By Robots? 🤔
87% Chance of Automation
“Equipment Operator (EO)” will probably be replaced by robots.
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Job Description
Maintain highways, municipal and rural roads, airport runways, and rights-of-way. Duties include patching broken or eroded pavement, repairing guard rails, highway markers, and snow fences. May also mow or clear brush from along road or plow snow from roadway.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 47-4051.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 39,540.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 19.00
- Currently, there are 143,320 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Highway Maintenance Workers”.
Also Known As…
- Highway Maintenance Workers
- Truck Driver
- Transportation Maintenance Specialist (TMS)
- Transportation Maintenance Operator
- Highway Worker
- Highway Maintenance Worker
- Highway Maintenance Technician
- Highway Maintenance Crew Worker
- Highway Maintainer
- Heavy Equipment Operator
- Equipment Operator (EO)
- Transportation Worker
- Traffic Control Specialist
- Traffic Control Flagger
- Striper Paint Gun Operator
- Street Worker
- Snow Plow Operator
- Road Worker
- Road Sign Installer
- Road Repairer
- Road Patcher
- Road Oiling Truck Driver
- Road Oiler
- Road Mender
- Road Maker
- Road Grader Operator
- Road Crew Member
- Road Builder
- Quick Technician
- Patrolman
- Paint Crew Person
- Oil Spreader Operator
- Materials Handling Equipment Operator
- Material Handler
- Maintenance Worker
- Maintenance Technician
- Lane Marker Installer
- Laborer
- Hot Oiler
- Flagger
- Caltrans Landscape Maintenance Worker
- Caltrans Equipment Operator
- Asphalt Raker
Tasks for “Equipment Operator (EO)”
- Apply poisons along roadsides and in animal burrows to eliminate unwanted roadside vegetation and rodents.
- Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.
- Measure and mark locations for installation of markers, using tape, string, or chalk.
- Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.
- Erect, install, or repair guardrails, road shoulders, berms, highway markers, warning signals, and highway lighting, using hand tools and power tools.
- 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.
- 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.
- Haul and spread sand, gravel, and clay to fill washouts and repair road shoulders.
- Remove litter and debris from roadways, including debris from rock and mud slides.
- Perform roadside landscaping work, such as clearing weeds and brush, and planting and trimming trees.
- Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.
- Drive trucks to transport crews and equipment to work sites.
- Clean and clear debris from culverts, catch basins, drop inlets, ditches, and other drain structures.
- Set out signs and cones around work areas to divert traffic.
- Flag motorists to warn them of obstacles or repair work ahead.
- 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.
- Paint traffic control lines and place pavement traffic messages, by hand or using machines.
Related Technology & Tools
- Circuit testing equipment
- Hole diggers/augers
- Sandblasters
- Self-propelled sweepers
- Pavement rollers
- Cold planers
- Tractor-mounted mowers
- Power saws
- 30-ton clam buckets
- Chip spreaders
- Graffiti removing lasers
- Forklifts
- Wheeled hydraulic booms
- Low boys
- Tractor disc attachments
- Hydraulic spreaders
- Pothole excavation milling machines
- Truck low-bed trailer combos
- Gas transporters
- Hammers
- Impact wrenches
- Patch rollers less than 9 tons
- Adjustable widemouth pliers
- Vans
- Side-mount rotary mowers
- Graders
- Push mowers
- 8-ton dump trucks
- Draglines
- Measuring wheels
- Portable welding equipment
- Tar kettles
- Spades
- Swinging stages
- Seeders
- Side dozers
- Truck-mounted pavement striping machines
- Flatbed trailers
- Stump cutters
- Bulldozers
- Rear flail mowers
- Thermoplastic applicators
- Medium pressure hydraulic pumps
- Dump trucks
- Picks
- Culvert cleaners
- Transport trucks
- Epoxy guns
- Shovels
- High-pressure hydraulic pumps
- Laser printers
- Four-wheel drive front end loaders
- Bush axes
- 4-6 ton roller patchers
- Bucket trucks
- Air compressors
- Pavement grinders
- Sewer eels
- Stone box spreaders
- Platform trucks
- 10-ton tandem-axle dump trucks
- Tire chains
- Water pumps
- Light trucks
- Rear brush hog mowers
- Aggregate spreaders
- Paint mixers
- Power screeds
- Towable barricades
- Self-propelled road wideners
- Truck mounted excavators
- Tow brooms
- Pressure washers
- Catch basin vacuum cleaners
- Tar distributors
- Swiss hammers
- Screwdrivers
- Harrows
- Adjustable wrenches
- Machetes
- Rock cutters
- Laydown machines
- Compactors
- Mud jacks
- Heavy trucks
- Desktop computers
- Concrete saws
- Rotary snowplows
- Self-propelled cranes
- 10-ton crawlers
- Sewer cleaners
- Front end loaders
- Jackhammers
- Theodolites
- Pneumatic tampers
- Multipurpose vacuum street sweepers
- Chain saws
- 13000-23000 pound graders
- Belly dump tractor trailers
- Paint transfer pumps
- Scissor trucks
- Windrow loaders
- Paint guns
- Brush chippers
- Pull type pavers
- Two way radios
- Rock drills
- Boom trucks
- Computerized weed spray trucks
- Pavement joint sealers
- Mounted pavement breakers
- Tanker trucks
- Asphalt reclaimers
- Concrete mixers
- Hydraulic excavators
- Oil heating burners
- Snow blowers
- Concrete paving vibrators
- Weedeaters
- Snoopers
- Chemical sprayers
- Two-wheel drive front end loaders
- Pile drivers
- Gradalls
- Snowplows
- Water trucks
- Sand spreaders
- Cherry pickers
- Concrete groovers
- Bituminous pavers
- Athey loaders
- Scaffolding
- Digger derricks
- Berm drag tractors
- Steam cleaning equipment
- Personal computers
- Rakes
- Truck mounted cranes
- Power broom street sweepers
- Ditchers
- Generators
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Office
- Spreadsheet software
- Database software
- Web browser software
- Word processing software