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