Cover interior walls or ceilings of rooms with decorative wallpaper or fabric, or attach advertising posters on surfaces such as walls and billboards. They remove old materials or prepare surfaces to be papered.

Paint walls, equipment, buildings, bridges, and other structural surfaces, using brushes, rollers, and spray guns. They remove old paint to prepare surface prior to painting. They mix colors or oils to obtain desired color or consistency.

Apply insulating materials to pipes or ductwork, or other mechanical systems in order to help control and maintain temperature.

Line and cover structures with insulating materials. They work with batt, roll, or blown insulation materials.

Install glass in windows, skylights, store fronts, and display cases, or on surfaces, such as building fronts, interior walls, ceilings, and tabletops.

Install, maintain, and repair electrical wiring, equipment, and fixtures. They ensure that work is in accordance with relevant codes. They install or service street lights, intercom systems, or electrical control systems.

Seal joints between plasterboard or other wallboard to prepare wall surface for painting or papering.

Apply plasterboard or other wallboard to ceilings or interior walls of buildings. They apply or mount acoustical tiles or blocks, strips, or sheets of shock absorbing materials to ceilings and walls of buildings to reduce or reflect sound. This includes lathers who fasten wooden, metal, or rockboard lath to walls, ceilings or partitions of buildings to provide a support base.

Operate one or several types of power construction equipment, such as motor graders, bulldozers, scrapers, compressors, pumps, drilling towers, shovels, tractors, or front end loaders. They excavate, move and grade earth, erect structures, pour concrete or pavement. They repair and maintain equipment in addition to other duties.

Operate pile drillers mounted on rails, barges, crawler treads, or locomotive cranes to drive pilings for retaining walls, bulkheads, and foundations of structures, such as buildings, bridges, and piers.