Lay pipe for storm or sanitation sewers, drains, and water mains. They perform any combination of the following tasks: grade trenches or culverts, position pipe, or seal joints.

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.

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

Perform tasks involving physical labor at construction sites. They operate hand and power tools of all types: air hammers, earth tampers, cement mixers, small mechanical hoists, surveying and measuring equipment. They clean and prepare sites, dig trenches, set braces to support the sides of excavations, erect scaffolding, and clean up rubble, debris and other waste materials.

Scrape and sand wooden floors to smooth surfaces using floor scraper and floor sanding machine, and apply coats of finish.

Apply blocks, strips, or sheets of shock absorbing, sound deadening, or decorative coverings to floors.

Build stone structures, such as piers, walls, and abutments. They lay walks, curbstones, or special types of masonry for vats, tanks, and floors.

Directly supervise and coordinate activities of construction or extraction workers.