Worker, construction

Civil engineering labourers perform routine tasks in the construction and maintenance of motorways, railways, dams and other civil engineering structures.

• digging and filling holes, ditches and trenches with hand tools;
• shovelling and spreading gravel and similar materials;
• breaking stone, concrete and asphalt surfaces with pneumatic hammers;
• loading and unloading construction materials, excavated material and equipment, and moving them with wheelbarrows and hand trucks;
• cleaning the work area.
• Examples of occupations in this unit group:
• Worker, construction
• Worker, dam maintenance
• Worker, road maintenance
• Shoveller-digger