United States
Jobs related to the building of public or private structures, or removing material or resources from their natural habitat for construction or other purposes. Typically includes operating equipment for mining, drilling and other extraction activities, carpentry, brick laying and masonry, roofing, electrical work, plumbing, maintenance, and supervision of all tasks for quality control and adherence to codes. You can explore Sub Job Families and linked industry, careers and courses from links below.
Supervisors of Construction and Extraction Workers
Supervisors of Construction and Extraction Workers directly coordinate, supervise or schedule the tasks of extraction or construction workers. They are required to read specifications, plan procedures, inspect progress and ensure compliance with requirements.
Construction Trades Workers
Construction Trades Workers are laborers, tradespersons, or professionals employed in the construction of the built environment and its infrastructure. They construct, assemble, maintain, install and repair stationary steam boilers, boiler house auxiliaries, stone structures like piers, walls, and abutments, structures and fixtures of wood and other such materials like concrete forms, building frameworks, padding and flooring materials, hard tile, electrical wiring, equipment, and fixtures, glass in store fronts, windows, and display cases, pipelines or pipe systems, heating and cooling equipments, sheet metal products and equipments such as control boxes, ducts, and furnace casings, solar photovoltaic systems on roofs or other structures and perform other construction related chores. They may operate equipments used for power construction, applying asphalt, concrete, or other materials, driving pilings for retaining walls, foundation of structures such as bridges, buildings and piers, and bulkheads, and hand and power tools of all types. Occupations in this pathways require a high level of physical strength and endurance.
Helpers, Construction Trades
Helpers, (Construction Trades) provide assistance to skilled construction trades workers such as brickmasons, blockmasons, stonemasons, marble and tile setters, carpenters, electricians, painters, plasterers, roofers etc and perform labouring activities at construction sites like cleaning up and preparing construction sites, performing excavation and demolition activities and moving materials and equipment. Their duties include supplying, using, or holding tools or materials, and cleaning equipment and work area.
Other Construction and Related Workers
The construction and related workers pathway includes a wide range of professionals directly involved in the construction or maintenance of structures such as buildings, highways, railway tracks, tanks, sewar pipes etc. They assemble, erect, install, clean, repair, or maintain hydraulic or electric passenger or freight escalators, elevators, or dumbwaiters, fences and fence gates, track for standard or narrow-gauge railroad, septic tanks, sewer lines, or drains, highways, airport runways, municipal and rural roads, and rights-of-way, and identify and remove hazardous materials such as contaminated soil, waste oil, lead-based paint etc.
Extraction Workers
Extraction workers are those who are involved in the extraction of resources from the ground or the sea. They set up or operate a variety of drills such as churn, rotary, pneumatic etc to tap subsurface salt and water deposits, machineries for installation of roof support bolts in underground mine and at surface mining sites to load and excavate loose materials, explosives to remove, loosen or displace rock earth or other material or to demolish structures, self-propelled mining machines to rip metal and nonmetal ores, coal, stone, rock, or sand from the mine face,and underground moving or loading machine to move or load core, rock, or ore. They may also perform specialized storage, handling and accounting procedures.
