Construction and Related Workers, All Other

Career Description: All construction and related workers not listed separately.

Industry: Construction and Extraction

Other Job Titles for Construction and Related Workers, All Other:

• Realistic: Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.
• Investigative: Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.
• Artistic: Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.
• Social: Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.
• Enterprising: Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.
• Conventional: Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.
• First Interest High-Point: Primary-Rank Descriptiveness
• Second Interest High-Point: Secondary-Cutoff/Rank Descriptiveness
• Third Interest High-Point: Tertiary-Cutoff/Rank Descriptiveness

• Use survey instruments, metering devices, tape measures, and test equipment, such as concrete strength measurers, to perform inspections.
• Inspect bridges, dams, highways, buildings, wiring, plumbing, electrical circuits, sewers, heating systems, and foundations during and after construction for structural quality, general safety and conformance to specifications and codes.
• Maintain daily logs and supplement inspection records with photographs.
• Review and interpret plans, blueprints, site layouts, specifications, and construction methods to ensure compliance to legal requirements and safety regulations.
• Inspect and monitor construction sites to ensure adherence to safety standards, building codes, and specifications.
• Measure dimensions and verify level, alignment, and elevation of structures and fixtures to ensure compliance to building plans and codes.
• Issue violation notices and stop-work orders, conferring with owners, violators, and authorities to explain regulations and recommend rectifications.
• Issue permits for construction, relocation, demolition and occupancy.
• Approve and sign plans that meet required specifications.
• Compute estimates of work completed or of needed renovations or upgrades, and approve payment for contractors.
• Monitor installation of plumbing, wiring, equipment, and appliances to ensure that installation is performed properly and is in compliance with applicable regulations.
• Examine lifting and conveying devices, such as elevators, escalators, moving sidewalks, lifts and hoists, inclined railways, ski lifts, and amusement rides to ensure safety and proper functioning.
• Train, direct and supervise other construction inspectors.
• Evaluate premises for cleanliness, including proper garbage disposal and lack of vermin infestation.
• Apply hardening and sealing compounds to cure surface of concrete, and waterproof or restore surface.
• Chip, scrape, and grind high spots, ridges, and rough projections to finish concrete, using pneumatic chisels, power grinders, or hand tools.
• Spread roofing paper on surface of foundation, and spread concrete onto roofing paper with trowel to form terrazzo base.
• Build wooden molds, and clamp molds around area to be repaired, using hand tools.
• Sprinkle colored marble or stone chips, powdered steel, or coloring powder over surface to produce prescribed finish.
• Cut metal division strips, and press them into terrazzo base so that top edges form desired design or pattern.
• Fabricate concrete beams, columns, and panels.
• Waterproof or restore concrete surfaces, using appropriate compounds.
• Install anchor bolts, steel plates, door sills and other fixtures in freshly poured concrete or pattern or stamp the surface to provide a decorative finish.
• Apply muriatic acid to clean surface, and rinse with water.
• Push roller over surface to embed chips in surface.
• Polish surface, using polishing or surfacing machine.

Emerging Tasks

• Clean up before and after installation, including vacuuming carpet and discarding remnant pieces.

• Analyzing Data or Information: Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
• Assisting and Caring for Others: Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
• Coaching and Developing Others: Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
• Communicating with Persons Outside Organization: Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
• Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates: Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
• Controlling Machines and Processes: Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).
• Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others: Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.
• Developing and Building Teams: Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
• Developing Objectives and Strategies: Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
• Documenting/Recording Information: Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
• Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment: Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used.
• Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships: Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
• Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information: Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
• Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards: Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
• Getting Information: Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates: Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
• Handling and Moving Objects: Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
• Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events: Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material: Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
• Interacting With Computers: Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
• Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others: Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
• Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People: Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
• Making Decisions and Solving Problems: Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
• Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings: Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
• Monitoring and Controlling Resources: Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.
• Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment: Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or water craft.
• Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work: Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
• Performing Administrative Activities: Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
• Performing for or Working Directly with the Public: Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
• Performing General Physical Activities: Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials.
• Processing Information: Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
• Provide Consultation and Advice to Others: Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics.
• Repairing and Maintaining Electronic Equipment: Servicing, repairing, calibrating, regulating, fine-tuning, or testing machines, devices, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of electrical or electronic (not mechanical) principles.
• Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment: Servicing, repairing, adjusting, and testing machines, devices, moving parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical (not electronic) principles.
• Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others: Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.
• Scheduling Work and Activities: Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
• Selling or Influencing Others: Convincing others to buy merchandise/goods or to otherwise change their minds or actions.
• Staffing Organizational Units: Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and promoting employees in an organization.
• Thinking Creatively: Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
• Training and Teaching Others: Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
• Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge: Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.

Detailed Work Activities

• adhere to safety procedures
• analyze technical data, designs, or preliminary specifications
• compare findings with specifications to ensure conformance to standards
• compile information on findings from investigation of accidents
• compute product or materials test results
• compute production, construction, or installation specifications
• conduct land surveys
• conduct training for personnel
• confer with engineering, technical or manufacturing personnel
• direct and coordinate activities of workers or staff
• ensure conformance to building regulations
• ensure equipment is operating to prescribed standards
• evaluate construction quality
• evaluate equipment for compliance with standards
• evaluate new construction industry practices
• evaluate premises for cleanliness
• examine permits or licenses to ensure compliance with requirements
• explain government rules or policies
• gather physical evidence
• identify home safety hazards
• inspect buildings to detect violations of fire codes
• inspect electrical installation for code conformance
• inspect facilities or equipment for regulatory compliance
• inspect or test materials to verify safety standards or ensure meeting of specifications
• inspect products or systems for regulatory compliance
• inspect project operations, or site to determine specification compliance
• investigate complaints, disturbances, or violations
• issue citation or warning for violation of laws
• maintain daily logs or records
• maintain inspection tools or equipment
• maintain records, reports, or files
• measure construction dimensions
• obtain land survey data using surveying instruments
• operate land or site surveying instruments
• oversee work progress to verify safety or conformance to standards
• perform safety inspections in construction or resource extraction setting
• perform safety inspections in industrial, manufacturing or repair setting
• prepare reports
• prepare reports for management
• prepare safety reports
• prepare technical reports or related documentation
• read blueprints
• read specifications
• read tape measure
• recognize public safety hazards
• recommend action to ensure compliance
• recommend alterations in construction or specifications
• record test results, test procedures, or inspection data
• test electrical/electronic wiring, equipment, systems or fixtures
• test mechanical products or equipment
• understand construction specifications
• understand government construction contracting regulations
• use electronic calibration devices
• use knowledge of investigation techniques
• use knowledge of regulations in surveying or construction activities
• use land surveying techniques
• use oral or written communication techniques
• use pressure gauges

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• Average hourly wage (2007) -$15.01
• Average annual wage (2007) - $31,220.00

• Projected growth (2006-2016): 8.84%
• Projected need (2006-2016): 5,519
• Employment (2006): 62,455

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