Roading Construction Worker - Tasks and specialisations
Kaimahi Hanga Rori
Tasks & duties
Roading construction workers may do some or all of the following:
- check the machinery and equipment is in good working order
- meet with other workers to discuss issues such as safety, hazards, the environment and the day's work
- dig up road surfaces and create trenches for new cables or drains to be laid
- tip and spread gravel and apply seal onto the surface
- control the rate at which materials are tipped
- compact and smooth the surface using a roller
- pour and smooth concrete
- carry out general carpentry duties
- lay or repair pipes and drains
- operate earthmoving machinery
- direct and control traffic moving around a site being worked on
- maintain machinery and equipment.
Roading construction workers completing roadworks in a rural area
Roading construction workers applying asphalt to a road
