Will “Transportation Maintenance Specialist (TMS)” be Replaced By Robots? 🤔

87% Chance of Automation

“Transportation Maintenance Specialist (TMS)” 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 “Transportation Maintenance Specialist (TMS)”

Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.
Remove litter and debris from roadways, including debris from rock and mud slides.
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.
Flag motorists to warn them of obstacles or repair work ahead.
Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.
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.
Measure and mark locations for installation of markers, using tape, string, or chalk.
Apply poisons along roadsides and in animal burrows to eliminate unwanted roadside vegetation and rodents.
Drive trucks to transport crews and equipment to work sites.
Set out signs and cones around work areas to divert traffic.
Perform roadside landscaping work, such as clearing weeds and brush, and planting and trimming trees.
Haul and spread sand, gravel, and clay to fill washouts and repair road shoulders.
Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.
Clean and clear debris from culverts, catch basins, drop inlets, ditches, and other drain structures.
Blend compounds to form adhesive mixtures used for marker installation.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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