Designing, planning, managing, building and maintaining the built environment.

Lay and bind building materials, such as brick, structural tile, concrete block, cinder block, glass block, and terra-cotta block, with mortar and other substances, to construct or repair walls, partitions, arches, sewers, and other structures.

Brickmasons and Blockmasons

Lay and install carpet from rolls or blocks on floors. Install padding and trim flooring materials.

Carpet Installers

Smooth and finish surfaces of poured concrete, such as floors, walks, sidewalks, roads, or curbs using a variety of hand and power tools. Align forms for sidewalks, curbs, or gutters; patch voids; and use saws to cut expansion joints.

Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers

Construct, erect, install, and repair structures and fixtures of wood, plywood, and wallboard, using carpenter's hand tools and power tools.

Carpenters

Construction Carpenters

Perform tasks involving physical labor at construction sites. May operate hand and power tools of all types: air hammers, earth tampers, cement mixers, small mechanical hoists, surveying and measuring equipment, and a variety of other equipment and instruments. May 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. May assist other craft workers.

Construction Laborers

Plan, direct, or coordinate, usually through subordinate supervisory personnel, activities concerned with the construction and maintenance of structures, facilities, and systems. Participate in the conceptual development of a construction project and oversee its organization, scheduling, budgeting, and implementation. Includes managers in specialized construction fields, such as carpentry or plumbing.

Construction Managers

Operate self-propelled mining machines that rip coal, metal and nonmetal ores, rock, stone, or sand from the mine face and load it onto conveyors, shuttle cars, or trucks in a continuous operation.

Continuous Mining Machine Operators

Control or tend conveyors or conveyor systems that move materials or products to and from stockpiles, processing stations, departments, or vehicles. May control speed and routing of materials or products.

Conveyor Operators and Tenders

Operate mechanical boom and cable or tower and cable equipment to lift and move materials, machines, or products in many directions.

Crane and Tower Operators

Rig derrick equipment and operate pumps to circulate mud or fluid through drill hole.

Derrick Operators, Oil and Gas

Operate dredge to remove sand, gravel, or other materials in order to excavate and maintain navigable channels in waterways.

Dredge Operators

Apply plasterboard or other wallboard to ceilings or interior walls of buildings. 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. Materials may be of decorative quality. Includes lathers who fasten wooden, metal, or rockboard lath to walls, ceilings, or partitions of buildings to provide support base for plaster, fireproofing, or acoustical material.

Drywall and Ceiling Tile Installers

Operate a variety of drills such as rotary, churn, and pneumatic to tap subsurface water and salt deposits, to remove core samples during mineral exploration or soil testing, and to facilitate the use of explosives in mining or construction. Includes horizontal and earth boring machine operators.

Earth Drillers, Except Oil and Gas

Earth Drillers

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

Electricians

Operate or tend machinery at surface mining site, equipped with scoops, shovels, or buckets to excavate and load loose materials.

Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining

Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators

Place and detonate explosives to demolish structures or to loosen, remove, or displace earth, rock, or other materials. May perform specialized handling, storage, and accounting procedures.

Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters

Erect and repair fences and fence gates, using hand and power tools.

Fence Erectors

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

Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles

Floor Layers

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

Floor Sanders and Finishers

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

Glaziers

Help brickmasons, blockmasons, stonemasons, or tile and marble setters by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include using, supplying, or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.

Helpers--Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setters

Helpers of Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setters

Help carpenters by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include using, supplying, or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.

Helpers--Carpenters

Helpers of Carpenters

Help electricians by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include using, supplying, or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.

Helpers--Electricians

Helpers of Electricians

Help extraction craft workers, such as earth drillers, blasters and explosives workers, derrick operators, and mining machine operators, by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include supplying equipment or cleaning work area.

Helpers--Extraction Workers

Helpers of Extraction Workers

Help painters, paperhangers, plasterers, or stucco masons by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include using, supplying, or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.

Helpers--Painters, Paperhangers, Plasterers, and Stucco Masons

Helpers of Painters, Paperhangers, Plasterers, and Stucco Masons

Help plumbers, pipefitters, steamfitters, or pipelayers by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include using, supplying, or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.

Helpers--Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters

Helpers of Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters

Help roofers by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include using, supplying, or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.

Helpers--Roofers

Helpers of Roofers

Operate or tend hoists or winches to lift and pull loads using power-operated cable equipment.

Hoist and Winch Operators

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

Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall

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

Insulation Workers, Mechanical

Operate underground loading machine to load coal, ore, or rock into shuttle or mine car or onto conveyors. Loading equipment may include power shovels, hoisting engines equipped with cable-drawn scraper or scoop, or machines equipped with gathering arms and conveyor.

Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining

Loading Machine Operators, Underground Mining

Move or install mobile homes or prefabricated buildings.

Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers

Operate machinery such as longwall shears, plows, and cutting machines to cut or channel along the face or seams of coal mines, stone quarries, or other mining surfaces to facilitate blasting, separating, or removing minerals or materials from mines or from the Earth's surface. Includes shale planers.

Mine Cutting and Channeling Machine Operators

Operate diesel or electric-powered shuttle car in underground mine to transport materials from working face to mine cars or conveyor.

Mine Shuttle Car Operators

Cuts channel under working face to facilitate blasting, using pick, or by operating cutting machine. Shovels shattered materials into mine cars or onto conveyor. Installs timbering, roof bolts, or cribs, to support walls and roof.Lays track to accommodate mine cars or track-mounted equipment. May do development work, such as opening up new passageways, air vents, auxiliary tunnels, rooms, and shafts to facilitate mining.

Extraction Workers, All Other

Mining and Extraction Workers

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

Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators

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

Painters, Construction and Maintenance

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

Paperhangers

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.

Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators

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

Pile Driver Operators

Pile-Driver Operators

Lay out, assemble, install, or maintain pipe systems, pipe supports, or related hydraulic or pneumatic equipment for steam, hot water, heating, cooling, lubricating, sprinkling, or industrial production or processing systems.

Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters

Pipe Fitters and Steamfitters

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

Pipelayers

Apply interior or exterior plaster, cement, stucco, or similar materials. May also set ornamental plaster.

Plasterers and Stucco Masons

Assemble, install, or repair pipes, fittings, or fixtures of heating, water, or drainage systems, according to specifications or plumbing codes.

Plumbers

Plan, oversee, and lead mining projects from ideation through to completion.

Project Managers - Mining

Position and secure steel bars or mesh in concrete forms in order to reinforce concrete. Use a variety of fasteners, rod-bending machines, blowtorches, and hand tools. Includes rod busters.

Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers

Set up or repair rigging for construction projects, manufacturing plants, logging yards, ships and shipyards, or for the entertainment industry.

Riggers

Separate blocks of rough dimension stone from quarry mass using jackhammers, wedges, or chop saws.

Rock Splitters, Quarry

Operate machinery to install roof support bolts in underground mine.

Roof Bolters, Mining

Cover roofs of structures with shingles, slate, asphalt, aluminum, wood, or related materials. May spray roofs, sidings, and walls with material to bind, seal, insulate, or soundproof sections of structures.

Roofers

Set up or operate a variety of drills to remove underground oil and gas, or remove core samples for testing during oil and gas exploration.

Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Gas

Build rough wooden structures, such as concrete forms, scaffolds, tunnel, bridge, or sewer supports, billboard signs, and temporary frame shelters, according to sketches, blueprints, or oral instructions.

Rough Carpenters

Assemble or repair oil field equipment using hand and power tools. Perform other tasks as needed.

Roustabouts, Oil and Gas

Lay out, cut, and place segmental paving units. Includes installers of bedding and restraining materials for the paving units.

Segmental Pavers

Operate equipment to increase oil flow from producing wells or to remove stuck pipe, casing, tools, or other obstructions from drilling wells. Includes fishing-tool technicians.

Service Unit Operators, Oil and Gas

Service Unit Operators, Oil, Gas, and Mining

Fabricate, assemble, install, and repair sheet metal products and equipment, such as ducts, control boxes, drainpipes, and furnace casings. Work may involve any of the following: setting up and operating fabricating machines to cut, bend, and straighten sheet metal; shaping metal over anvils, blocks, or forms using hammer; operating soldering and welding equipment to join sheet metal parts; or inspecting, assembling, and smoothing seams and joints of burred surfaces. Includes sheet metal duct installers who install prefabricated sheet metal ducts used for heating, air conditioning, or other purposes.

Sheet Metal Workers

Oversee day-to-day on-site operations of a construction project. Maintain projects within the timescale and budget, and manage any problems that arise.

Site Managers

Assemble, install, or maintain solar photovoltaic (PV) systems on roofs or other structures in compliance with site assessment and schematics. May include measuring, cutting, assembling, and bolting structural framing and solar modules. May perform minor electrical work such as current checks.

Solar Photovoltaic Installers

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

Stonemasons

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

Structural Iron and Steel Workers

Fabricate, position, align, and fit parts of structural metal products.

Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters

Perform a range of ancillary surface mining operations including pumping, dust suppression, and the transport of materials including sand, stone, and clay to the point of production.

Surface Miners

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

Tapers

Apply a mixture of cement, sand, pigment, or marble chips to floors, stairways, and cabinet fixtures to fashion durable and decorative surfaces.

Terrazzo Workers and Finishers

Apply hard tile, stone, and comparable materials to walls, floors, ceilings, countertops, and roof decks.

Tile and Stone Setters

Tile and Marble Setters

Perform a range of ancillary underground mining operations such as inspections, conveyor attendance, and the transport of equipment and consumable materials from the surface to the point of extraction underground.

Underground Mining Machine Operators, All Other

Underground Operators

Construction

Plan and design structures, such as private residences, office buildings, theaters, factories, and other structural property.

Architects, Except Landscape and Naval

Architects

Prepare detailed drawings of architectural designs and plans for buildings and structures according to specifications provided by architect.

Architectural and Civil Drafters

Architectural Drafters

Prepare drawings and topographical and relief maps used in civil engineering projects, such as highways, bridges, pipelines, flood control projects, and water and sewerage control systems.

Civil Drafters

Apply theory and principles of civil engineering in planning, designing, and overseeing construction and maintenance of structures and facilities under the direction of engineering staff or physical scientists.

Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians

Civil Engineering Technicians

Perform engineering duties in planning, designing, and overseeing construction and maintenance of building structures and facilities, such as roads, railroads, airports, bridges, harbors, channels, dams, irrigation projects, pipelines, power plants, and water and sewage systems.

Civil Engineers

Prepare cost estimates for product manufacturing, construction projects, or services to aid management in bidding on or determining price of product or service. May specialize according to particular service performed or type of product manufactured.

Cost Estimators

Measure large areas of the Earth's surface using satellite observations, global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), light detection and ranging (LIDAR), or related sources.

Geodetic Surveyors

Measure and map marine environments with specialised equipment. Collect scientific data to study the underwater topography and morphology of bodies of water.

Surveyors

Hydrographic Surveyors

Plan, design, and furnish the internal space of rooms or buildings. Design interior environments or create physical layouts that are practical, aesthetic, and conducive to the intended purposes. May specialize in a particular field, style, or phase of interior design.

Interior Designers

Plan and design land areas for projects such as parks and other recreational facilities, airports, highways, hospitals, schools, land subdivisions, and commercial, industrial, and residential sites.

Landscape Architects

Calculate mapmaking information from field notes, and draw and verify accuracy of topographical maps.

Surveying and Mapping Technicians

Mapping Technicians

Manage all aspects of the contractual and financial side of construction projects. Ensure that the construction project is completed within its projected budget with efficient use of the resources by monitoring quality, quality standards, and client's requirements.

Quantity Surveyors

Adjust and operate surveying instruments, such as the theodolite and electronic distance-measuring equipment, and compile notes, make sketches and enter data into computers.

Surveying Technicians

Make exact measurements and determine property boundaries. Provide data relevant to the shape, contour, gravitation, location, elevation, or dimension of land or land features on or near the earth's surface for engineering, mapmaking, mining, land evaluation, construction, and other purposes.

Develop plans for surface transportation projects, according to established engineering standards and state or federal construction policy. Prepare designs, specifications, or estimates for transportation facilities. Plan modifications of existing streets, highways, or freeways to improve traffic flow.

Transportation Engineers

Design/Pre-Construction

Construct, assemble, maintain, and repair stationary steam boilers and boiler house auxiliaries. Align structures or plate sections to assemble boiler frame tanks or vats, following blueprints. Work involves use of hand and power tools, plumb bobs, levels, wedges, dogs, or turnbuckles. Assist in testing assembled vessels. Direct cleaning of boilers and boiler furnaces. Inspect and repair boiler fittings, such as safety valves, regulators, automatic-control mechanisms, water columns, and auxiliary machines.

Boilermakers

Maintain the cemetery ground in good condition and ensure the graves are ready for burial before funerals. Ensure accurate burial records are kept. Offer advice to funeral services directors and the general public.

Grounds Maintenance Workers, All Other

Cemetery Attendants

Work below surface of water, using surface-supplied air or scuba equipment to inspect, repair, remove, or install equipment and structures. May use a variety of power and hand tools, such as drills, sledgehammers, torches, and welding equipment. May conduct tests or experiments, rig explosives, or photograph structures or marine life.

Commercial Divers

Install, repair, and maintain mechanical regulating and controlling devices, such as electric meters, gas regulators, thermostats, safety and flow valves, and other mechanical governors.

Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door

Control and Valve Installers and Repairers

Install or repair cables or wires used in electrical power or distribution systems. May erect poles and light or heavy duty transmission towers.

Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers

Assemble, install, repair, or maintain electric or hydraulic freight or passenger elevators, escalators, or dumbwaiters.

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