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.

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.

Grade logs or estimate the marketable content or value of logs or pulpwood in sorting yards, millpond, log deck, or similar locations. They inspect logs for defects or measure logs to determine volume.