Highway maintenance workers

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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.

Structural iron and steel workers

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Raise, place, and unite iron or steel girders, columns, and other structural members to form completed structures or structural frameworks. They erect metal storage tanks and assemble prefabricated metal buildings.

Pipelayers

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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.

Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators

2025-09-11T14:49:11-06:00

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.