Construction Laborers

Perform tasks involving physical labor at building, highway, and heavy construction projects, tunnel and shaft excavations, and demolition sites. May operate hand and power tools of all types: air hammers, earth tampers, cement mixers, small mechanical hoists, surveying and measuring equipment, and a variety of other equipment and instruments. May clean and prepare sites, dig trenches, set braces to support the sides of excavations, erect scaffolding, clean up rubble and debris, and remove asbestos, lead, and other hazardous waste materials. May assist other craft workers.

Job Task

• Tends pumps, compressors, and generators to provide power for tools, machinery, and equipment or to heat and move materials such as asphalt.
• Lubricates, cleans, and repairs machinery, equipment, and tools.
• Mixes ingredients to create compounds, used to cover or clean surfaces.
• Loads and unloads trucks and hauls and hoists materials.
• Erects and disassembles scaffolding, shoring, braces, and other temporary structures.
• Builds and positions forms for pouring concrete and dismantles forms after use, using saws, hammers, nails, or bolts.
• Measures, marks, and records openings and distances to lay out area to be graded or to erect building structures.
• Smooth and finishes freshly poured cement or concrete, using float, trowel, screed, or powered cement finishing tool.
• Applies caulking compounds by hand or with caulking gun to seal crevices.
• Positions, joins, aligns, and seals structural components, such as concrete wall sections and pipes.
• Digs ditches and levels earth to grade specifications, using pick and shovel.
• Signals equipment operators to facilitate alignment, movement, and adjustment of machinery, equipment, and materials.
• Grinds, scrapes, sands, or polishes surfaces, such as concrete, marble, terrazzo, or wood flooring, using abrasive tools or machines.
• Mixes concrete, using portable mixer.
• Razes buildings and salvages useful materials.
• Sprays materials such as water, sand, steam, vinyl, paint, or stucco through hose to clean, coat, or seal surfaces.
• Tends machine that pumps concrete, grout, cement, sand, plaster or stucco through spray-gun for application to ceilings and walls.
• Mops, brushes, or spreads paints, cleaning solutions or other compounds over surfaces to clean or provide protection.
• Cleans construction site to eliminate possible hazards.

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