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O*NET detailed work activityAssist skilled construction or extraction personnel
Stays humanHands-on work
17 jobs21 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 Perform general construction or extraction activities, under the O*NET work activity group Performing General Physical Activities. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 21 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Locate and supply materials to masons for installation, following drawings or numbered sequences.
- Supply or hold tools and materials.
- Provide assistance to skilled roofers installing and repairing roofs, flashings, and surfaces.
- Fit or assist in fitting valves, couplings, or assemblies to tanks, pumps, or systems, using hand tools.
- Provide workers with assistance in performing duties as necessary to meet deadlines.
- Assist pipe fitters in the layout, assembly, and installation of piping for air, ammonia, gas, and water systems.
- Perform the same work duties as those supervised, or perform more difficult or skilled tasks or assist in their performance.
- Provide assistance to workers engaged in construction or extraction activities, using hand tools or other equipment.
- Provide assistance in the preparation, installation, repair, or rebuilding of tile, brick, or stone surfaces.
- Provide assistance to extraction craft workers, such as earth drillers and derrick operators.
- Perform support duties to assist painters, paperhangers, plasterers, or masons.
- Assist in designing programs to ensure the proper sealing of abandoned wells.
- Construct forms and assist in raising them to the required elevation.
- Provide assistance to craft workers, such as carpenters, plasterers, or masons.
- Guide and assist crews laying track and resetting supports and blocking.
- Push other equipment when extra traction or assistance is required.
- Provide assistance during emergencies by operating floodlights or generators, placing flares, or driving needed vehicles.
- Fill pipes with sand or resin to prevent distortion, and hold pipes during bending and installation.
- Supply equipment to rig floors as requested and provide assistance to roughnecks.
- Hold rivets while riveters use air hammers to form heads on rivets.