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O*NET detailed work activityOperate road-surfacing equipment
Stays humanHands-on work
3 jobs9 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 Operate construction or excavation equipment, under the O*NET work activity group Controlling Machines and Processes. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 9 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Start machine, engage clutch, and push and move levers to guide machine along forms or guidelines and to control the operation of machine attachments.
- Control paving machines to push dump trucks and to maintain a constant flow of asphalt or other material into hoppers or screeds.
- Light burners or start heating units of machines, and regulate screed temperatures and asphalt flow rates.
- Operate oil distributors, loaders, chip spreaders, dump trucks, and snow plows.
- Drive and operate curbing machines to extrude concrete or asphalt curbing.
- Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.
- Operate road watering, oiling, or rolling equipment, or street sealing equipment, such as chip spreaders.