Paving, Surfacing, & Tamping Equipment Operators

Also called: Equipment Operator (EO), Paver Operator, Roller Operator, Screed Operator

What they do:

Operate equipment used for applying concrete, asphalt, or other materials to road beds, parking lots, or airport runways and taxiways or for tamping gravel, dirt, or other materials. Includes concrete and asphalt paving machine operators, form tampers, tamping machine operators, and stone spreader operators.

On the job, you would:

Start machine, engage clutch, and push and move levers to guide machine along forms or guidelines and to control the operation of machine attachments.
Fill tanks, hoppers, or machines with paving materials.
Control paving machines to push dump trucks and to maintain a constant flow of asphalt or other material into hoppers or screeds.

Knowledge

Engineering and Technology

building and construction
mechanical

Math and Science

arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics

Skills

Basic Skills

keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements
thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem

Problem Solving