Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators

A typical week, in the words of people in the job

1. 01Operate oil distributors, loaders, chip spreaders, dump trucks, and snow plows.
2. 02Inspect, clean, maintain, and repair equipment, using mechanics' hand tools, or report malfunctions to supervisors.
3. 03Observe distribution of paving material to adjust machine settings or material flow, and indicate low spots for workers to add material.
4. 04Drive machines onto truck trailers, and drive trucks to transport machines and material to and from job sites.
5. 05Operate tamping machines or manually roll surfaces to compact earth fills, foundation forms, and finished road materials, according to grade specifications.
6. 06Set up forms and lay out guidelines for curbs, according to written specifications, using string, spray paint, and concrete or water mixes.
7. 07Light burners or start heating units of machines, and regulate screed temperatures and asphalt flow rates.
8. 08Start machine, engage clutch, and push and move levers to guide machine along forms or guidelines and to control the operation of machine attachments.
9. 09Shovel blacktop.
10. 10Place strips of material, such as cork, asphalt, or steel into joints, or place rolls of expansion-joint material on machines that automatically insert material.
11. 11Drive and operate curbing machines to extrude concrete or asphalt curbing.
12. 12Operate machines that clean or cut expansion joints in concrete or asphalt and that rout out cracks in pavement.

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