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

Other names for Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators: Asphalt Spreader Operator, Asphalt Surface Heater Operator, Asphalt Tamping Machine Operator, Bituminous Paving Machine Operator, Black Top Machine Operator, Black Top Paver Operator, Black Top Roller, Black Top Spreader Machine Operator, Concrete Finisher, Concrete Finishing Machine Operator, Concrete Paving Machine Operator, Curb Machine Operator, Equipment Operator (EO), Form Grader, Form Tamper, Form Tamper Operator, Heater-Planer Operator, Heavy Equipment Operator, Highway Maintenance Worker, Joint Cleaning and Grooving Machine Operator, Joint Machine Operator, Loader Operator, Mechanical Spreader Operator, Mud Jack Operator, Paver Operator, Paving Machine Operator, Reinforcing Steel Machine Operator, Road Mixer Operator, Road Oiling Truck Driver, Road Packer Operator, Road Roller Operator, Roadway Technician, Roller Machine Operator, Roller Operator, Screed Operator, Steam Roller Operator, Stone Spreader Operator, Strike Off Machine Operator, Tamping Machine Operator, Transportation Maintenance Worker, Traveling Plant Operator, Truck Driver, Asphalt Distributor Tender, Asphalt Paving Machine Operator, Asphalt Raker, Asphalt Roller Operator,

• Start machine, engage clutch, and push and move levers to guide machine along forms or guidelines and to control the operation of machine attachments.
• Inspect, clean, maintain, and repair equipment, using mechanics' hand tools, or report malfunctions to supervisors.
• Operate machines to spread, smooth, level, or steel-reinforce stone, concrete, or asphalt on road beds.
• Operate oil distributors, loaders, chip spreaders, dump trucks, and snow plows.
• Coordinate truck dumping.
• Set up and tear down equipment.
• Operate tamping machines or manually roll surfaces to compact earth fills, foundation forms, and finished road materials, according to grade specifications.
• Shovel blacktop.
• Drive machines onto truck trailers, and drive trucks to transport machines and material to and from job sites.
• Observe distribution of paving material to adjust machine settings or material flow, and indicate low spots for workers to add material.
• Light burners or start heating units of machines, and regulate screed temperatures and asphalt flow rates.
• Control paving machines to push dump trucks and to maintain a constant flow of asphalt or other material into hoppers or screeds.
• Set up forms and lay out guidelines for curbs, according to written specifications, using string, spray paint, and concrete/water mixes.
• Fill tanks, hoppers, or machines with paving materials.
• Drive and operate curbing machines to extrude concrete or asphalt curbing.
• Cut or break up pavement and drive guardrail posts, using machines equipped with interchangeable hammers.
• Install dies, cutters, and extensions to screeds onto machines, using hand tools.
• Operate machines that clean or cut expansion joints in concrete or asphalt and that rout out cracks in pavement.
• Place strips of material such as cork, asphalt, or steel into joints, or place rolls of expansion-joint material on machines that automatically insert material.

• Asphalt finishers
• Personal computers
• Paving breakers
• Rollers
• Asphalt finishers
• Non contact sensors
• Respirators
• Road surface heater planers
• Road pavers
• Rollers
• Road pavers
• Road pavers
• Respiration air supplying self contained breathing apparatus or accessories
• Paving material mixers
• Curbing machines
• Snowplow attachments
• Rollers
• Screwdrivers
• Straight edges
• String or twine
• Measuring tapes
• Tampers
• Level sensors or transmitters
• Two way radios
• Concrete paving strike offs
• Rollers
• Wheel loaders
• Paving material mixers
• Adjustable wrenches
• Bituminous material distributors
• Kettle exchangers
• Paving material mixers
• Road pavers
• Road pavers
• Chip Spreaders
• Hammers
• Cold planers
• Cold planers
• Compactors
• Road pavers
• Power saws
• Desktop computers
• Dump trucks
• Flatbed trailers
• Paving material mixers
• Pneumatic hammer
• Levels
• Bituminous material distributors
• Locking pliers
• Rollers
• Milling machines
• Graders
• Nut drivers
• Bituminous material distributors
• Paint sprayers
• Curbing machines

Time accounting software

Word processing software

Spreadsheet software

Electronic mail software