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“Materials Handling Equipment Operator” 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”.

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Tasks for “Materials Handling Equipment Operator”

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.
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.
Measure and mark locations for installation of markers, using tape, string, or chalk.
Clean and clear debris from culverts, catch basins, drop inlets, ditches, and other drain structures.
Place and remove snow fences used to prevent the accumulation of drifting snow on highways.
Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.
Set out signs and cones around work areas to divert traffic.
Flag motorists to warn them of obstacles or repair work ahead.
Inspect, clean, and repair drainage systems, bridges, tunnels, and other structures.
Drive trucks to transport crews and equipment to work sites.
Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.
Haul and spread sand, gravel, and clay to fill washouts and repair road shoulders.
Blend compounds to form adhesive mixtures used for marker installation.
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.
Paint traffic control lines and place pavement traffic messages, by hand or using machines.
Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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