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“Highway Maintenance Technician” 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 “Highway Maintenance Technician”

Dump, spread, and tamp asphalt, using pneumatic tampers, to repair joints and patch broken pavement.
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.
Erect, install, or repair guardrails, road shoulders, berms, highway markers, warning signals, and highway lighting, using hand tools and power tools.
Inspect, clean, and repair drainage systems, bridges, tunnels, and other structures.
Set out signs and cones around work areas to divert traffic.
Drive trucks to transport crews and equipment to work sites.
Measure and mark locations for installation of markers, using tape, string, or chalk.
Flag motorists to warn them of obstacles or repair work ahead.
Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.
Perform roadside landscaping work, such as clearing weeds and brush, and planting and trimming trees.
Paint traffic control lines and place pavement traffic messages, by hand or using machines.
Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.
Remove litter and debris from roadways, including debris from rock and mud slides.
Apply poisons along roadsides and in animal burrows to eliminate unwanted roadside vegetation and rodents.
Blend compounds to form adhesive mixtures used for marker installation.
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.
Haul and spread sand, gravel, and clay to fill washouts and repair road shoulders.
Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

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Epoxy guns
Pull type pavers
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Tractor disc attachments
Patch rollers less than 9 tons
Truck low-bed trailer combos
30-ton clam buckets
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Laser printers
8-ton dump trucks
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Tow brooms
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Sewer eels
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Two way radios
Air compressors
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Oil heating burners
Portable welding equipment
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4-6 ton roller patchers
10-ton tandem-axle dump trucks
Bush axes
Mounted pavement breakers
Scaffolding
Four-wheel drive front end loaders
Tire chains
Draglines
Power screeds
Pavement grinders
Asphalt reclaimers
Hole diggers/augers
Graffiti removing lasers
Concrete saws
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Cherry pickers
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Pavement joint sealers
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Paint mixers
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