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“Oil Spreader 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”.
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
- 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 “Oil Spreader Operator”
- Dump, spread, and tamp asphalt, using pneumatic tampers, to repair joints and patch broken pavement.
- Place and remove snow fences used to prevent the accumulation of drifting snow on highways.
- Inspect, clean, and repair drainage systems, bridges, tunnels, and other structures.
- Drive trucks to transport crews and equipment to work sites.
- Flag motorists to warn them of obstacles or repair work ahead.
- 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.
- Blend compounds to form adhesive mixtures used for marker installation.
- Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.
- Haul and spread sand, gravel, and clay to fill washouts and repair road shoulders.
- Clean and clear debris from culverts, catch basins, drop inlets, ditches, and other drain structures.
- 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.
- Remove litter and debris from roadways, including debris from rock and mud slides.
- 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.
- Measure and mark locations for installation of markers, using tape, string, or chalk.
- Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.
- Apply poisons along roadsides and in animal burrows to eliminate unwanted roadside vegetation and rodents.
- Set out signs and cones around work areas to divert traffic.
Related Technology & Tools
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- Sand spreaders
- Steam cleaning equipment
- Laydown machines
- Tow brooms
- Draglines
- Hydraulic spreaders
- Four-wheel drive front end loaders
- Portable welding equipment
- Front end loaders
- Windrow loaders
- Asphalt reclaimers
- Chip spreaders
- Dump trucks
- Graffiti removing lasers
- Self-propelled sweepers
- Gradalls
- 10-ton crawlers
- Ditchers
- Pothole excavation milling machines
- Mud jacks
- Paint transfer pumps
- Bush axes
- Computerized weed spray trucks
- Paint guns
- Bucket trucks
- Platform trucks
- Side-mount rotary mowers
- Measuring wheels
- High-pressure hydraulic pumps
- 8-ton dump trucks
- Rakes
- Water pumps
- Tanker trucks
- Medium pressure hydraulic pumps
- Cherry pickers
- Scissor trucks
- Wheeled hydraulic booms
- Screwdrivers
- Power saws
- Theodolites
- Self-propelled road wideners
- Rotary snowplows
- Push mowers
- Patch rollers less than 9 tons
- Heavy trucks
- Stone box spreaders
- Snow blowers
- Truck mounted excavators
- Oil heating burners
- Bulldozers
- Generators
- Tractor-mounted mowers
- Berm drag tractors
- Brush chippers
- Desktop computers
- Transport trucks
- Athey loaders
- Pile drivers
- Spades
- Impact wrenches
- Thermoplastic applicators
- Belly dump tractor trailers
- Multipurpose vacuum street sweepers
- Rear flail mowers
- Hammers
- 30-ton clam buckets
- Pull type pavers
- Concrete mixers
- 4-6 ton roller patchers
- Rock drills
- Pavement joint sealers
- Light trucks
- 10-ton tandem-axle dump trucks
- Pneumatic tampers
- Water trucks
- Boom trucks
- Seeders
- Self-propelled cranes
- Personal computers
- Two-wheel drive front end loaders
- Picks
- Hole diggers/augers
- Scaffolding
- Concrete saws
- Power screeds
- Truck low-bed trailer combos
- Shovels
- Chain saws
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- Adjustable wrenches
- Epoxy guns
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- Weedeaters
- Adjustable widemouth pliers
- 13000-23000 pound graders
- Pavement grinders
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- Pressure washers
- Paint mixers
- Machetes
- Sandblasters
- Rock cutters
- Hydraulic excavators
- Compactors
- Catch basin vacuum cleaners
- Stump cutters
- Truck mounted cranes
- Tire chains
- Forklifts
- Harrows
- Sewer eels
- Aggregate spreaders
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- Vans
- Tar kettles
- Low boys
- Swinging stages
- Concrete paving vibrators
- Chemical sprayers
- Concrete groovers
- Jackhammers
- Towable barricades
- Sewer cleaners
- Gas transporters
- Pavement rollers
- Two way radios
- Tar distributors
- Cold planers
- Snowplows
- Air compressors
- Flatbed trailers
- Graders
- Laser printers
- Tractor disc attachments
- Culvert cleaners
- Side dozers
- Microsoft Office
- Database software
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft PowerPoint
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- Microsoft Outlook
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