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O*NET detailed work activityAssemble temporary equipment or structures
Stays humanHands-on work
23 jobs25 tasks
This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Build structures, under the O*NET work activity group Handling and Moving Objects. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 25 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Set ladders, scaffolds, and hoists in place for taking supplies to roofs.
- Erect scaffolding or other installation structures.
- Erect scaffolding or swing gates, or set up ladders, to work above ground level.
- Build containment areas prior to beginning abatement or decontamination work.
- Assemble or inspect hoisting equipment or rigging, such as cables, pulleys, or hooks, to move heavy equipment or materials.
- Tighten ends of anchored truss bolts, using turnbuckles.
- Set up and tear down equipment.
- Set up scaffolding to provide safe access to roofs.
- Set up scaffolds.
- Assemble, erect, or dismantle scaffolds, rigging, or hoisting equipment.
- Erect scaffolding.
- Set up portable equipment, such as ventilators, exhaust units, ladders, or scaffolding.
- Erect scaffolding, shoring, or braces.
- Erect scaffolding or ladders for assembling structures above ground level.
- Assemble and fasten materials to make frameworks or props, using hand tools and wood screws, nails, dowel pins, or glue.
- Set up and use ladders and scaffolding as necessary to complete work.
- Erect scaffolds, platforms, or hoisting frames to access hydroelectric plant machinery or infrastructure for repair or replacement.
- Set up equipment, such as pasteboards and scaffolds.
- Set and bolt crown blocks to posts at tops of derricks.
- Erect ladders and scaffolding to fit together large assemblies.
- Participate in the construction or removal of telecommunication towers or associated support structures.