Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators

Operate equipment used for applying concrete, asphalt, or other materials to road beds, parking lots, or airport runways and taxiways, or equipment used for tamping gravel, dirt, or other materials. Includes concrete and asphalt paving machine operators, form tampers, tamping machine operators, and stone spreader operators.

Job Task

• Operate tamping machines or manually roll surfaces to compact earth fills, foundation forms, and finished road materials, according to grade specifications.
• Place strips of material such as cork, asphalt, or steel into joints, or place rolls of expansion-joint material on machines that automatically insert material.
• Set up and tear down equipment.
• Start machine, engage clutch, and push and move levers to guide machine along forms or guidelines and to control the operation of machine attachments.
• Operate machines to spread, smooth, level, or steel-reinforce stone, concrete, or asphalt on road beds.
• Coordinate truck dumping.
• Cut or break up pavement and drive guardrail posts, using machines equipped with interchangeable hammers.
• Drive machines onto truck trailers, and drive trucks to transport machines and material to and from job sites.
• Inspect, clean, maintain, and repair equipment, using mechanics' hand tools, or report malfunctions to supervisors.
• Operate oil distributors, loaders, chip spreaders, dump trucks, and snow plows.
• Set up forms and lay out guidelines for curbs, according to written specifications, using string, spray paint, and concrete/water mixes.
• Control paving machines to push dump trucks and to maintain a constant flow of asphalt or other material into hoppers or screeds.
• Drive and operate curbing machines to extrude concrete or asphalt curbing.
• Fill tanks, hoppers, or machines with paving materials.
• Install dies, cutters, and extensions to screeds onto machines, using hand tools.
• Light burners or start heating units of machines, and regulate screed temperatures and asphalt flow rates.
• Observe distribution of paving material in order to adjust machine settings or material flow, and indicate low spots for workers to add material.
• Operate machines that clean or cut expansion joints in concrete or asphalt and that rout out cracks in pavement.
• Shovel blacktop.

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