Will “Quick Technician” be Replaced By Robots? 🤔

87% Chance of Automation

“Quick Technician” will probably be replaced by robots.

This job is ranked #511 out of #702. A higher ranking (i.e., a lower number) means the job is less likely to be replaced.

Care to share? Click for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or XING. 👍

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…

Tasks for “Quick Technician”

Blend compounds to form adhesive mixtures used for marker installation.
Perform roadside landscaping work, such as clearing weeds and brush, and planting and trimming trees.
Remove litter and debris from roadways, including debris from rock and mud slides.
Inspect, clean, and repair drainage systems, bridges, tunnels, and other structures.
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.
Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.
Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.
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.
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.
Haul and spread sand, gravel, and clay to fill washouts and repair road shoulders.
Apply poisons along roadsides and in animal burrows to eliminate unwanted roadside vegetation and rodents.
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.
Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.
Measure and mark locations for installation of markers, using tape, string, or chalk.

Related Technology & Tools

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

Database software
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Word
Web browser software
Microsoft Office
Spreadsheet software
Word processing software
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Excel