Maintain highways, municipal and rural roads, airport runways, and rights of way. Their duties include patching broken or eroded pavement, repairing guard rails, highway markers, and snow fences. They also mow or clear brush from along road or plow snow from roadway.

Identify, remove, pack, transport, or dispose of hazardous materials, including asbestos, lead based paint, waste oil, fuel, transmission fluid, radioactive materials, or contaminated soil. They are generally required specialized training and certification in hazardous materials handling or a confined entry permit. They operate earth moving equipment or trucks.

Erect and repair fences and fence gates, using hand and power tools.

Assemble, install, repair, or maintain electric or hydraulic shipment or passenger elevators, escalators, or dumbwaiters.

Inspect structures using engineering skills to determine structural soundness and compliance with specifications, building codes, and other regulations. Their inspections may be general in nature or may be limited to a specific area, such as electrical systems or plumbing.

Help roofers by performing duties requiring less skill. Their duties include using, supplying or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.

Help plumbers, pipefitters, steamfitters, or pipelayers by performing duties requiring less skill. Their duties include using, supplying or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.

Help painters, paperhangers, plasterers, or stucco masons by performing duties requiring less skill. Their duties include using, supplying or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.

Help electricians by performing duties requiring less skill. Their duties include using, supplying or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.

Help carpenters by performing duties requiring less skill. Their duties include using, supplying or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.