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Overview
Road construction workers prepare subgrade, lay base courses, add frost protection, drainage and surfacing layers, then finish roads with asphalt, concrete slabs or related pavement materials.
In job descriptions, look for earthworks, slope planning, asphalt layers, kerbstones, drainage work, heavy construction equipment, material transport and safety procedures around utility infrastructure.
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Search jobsWhat the work can involve
Road construction work takes place around prepared ground, base courses, drainage and pavement layers. The role can include leveling surfaces, installing frost protection, laying asphalt, placing kerbstones and protecting buried utilities.
Skills and specializations
Useful skills include construction safety, inspecting supplies, preparing subgrade, planning slopes, handling asphalt layers and coordinating with heavy equipment. Some roles add bulldozers, excavators, trucks, membranes or concrete slabs.
Salary context
Pay expectations depend on site conditions, machine responsibility, shift pattern, weather exposure, safety duties and whether the role includes specialist surfacing or mainly manual support around crews and materials.
Career paths
Development can move from groundwork and material handling toward asphalt specialization, machine operation, drainage work, site coordination, quality inspection or training others in safe road-surfacing methods.
Good to know
Check whether a vacancy names the road layer, machinery, materials, drainage tasks and safety boundary around utilities. Clear adverts separate road surfacing from general construction labouring.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context, not official labour-market statistics or role-specific pay data.
Where might this occupation occur?
This occupation may occur in several kinds of economic activity. Here are some examples and other occupations that may be found in the same areas.
Construction of roads and motorways
This is one example. Another occupation in this activity is road roller operator.
Explore this activitySpecialised construction activities in civil engineering
This occupation may also occur in this activity. Other occupations there include road roller operator and pile driving hammer operator.
Explore this activityThese examples offer an overview but do not show every economic activity where the occupation may occur.
About this information
The selection is based on how occupations are connected to economic activities in ESCO and NACE. Only a few examples are shown to make the information easier to use. The occupations were selected because they are close in occupation area and important skills. The examples are not a ranking. They do not show where most people work, where demand is highest, or which occupation is best suited to a particular person.
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O*NET relationships
See occupations connected to this ESCO occupation in the official O*NET–ESCO mapping. The relationship type comes from the source and is not a ranking or recommendation.
O*NET relationships: 5
Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators
47-2071.00
Exact relationship
The official mapping treats the O*NET and ESCO occupations as closely equivalent.
Open in O*NETHighway Maintenance Workers
47-4051.00
Close relationship
The occupations are closely related, but the official mapping does not treat them as exact equivalents.
Open in O*NETSegmental Pavers
47-4091.00
O*NET occupation is more specific
The O*NET occupation covers a more specific field of work than this ESCO occupation.
Open in O*NETOperating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators
47-2073.00
O*NET occupation is broader
The O*NET occupation covers a broader field of work than this ESCO occupation.
Open in O*NETConstruction Laborers
47-2061.00
O*NET occupation is broader
The O*NET occupation covers a broader field of work than this ESCO occupation.
Open in O*NETSource and method
These relationships come from the official European Commission O*NET–ESCO crosswalk.
Relationship direction: O*NET occupation to ESCO occupation.
Several O*NET occupations can point to the same ESCO occupation, and one O*NET occupation can point to several ESCO occupations.
AltoTrail preserves the source relationship type. The order is technical and does not show which occupation is best, most relevant or recommended.
AltoTrail validates and presents the source relationships without adding ranking or recommendation semantics.
NACE Rev. 2.1
Economic activities linked to this occupation.
43.5Specialised construction activities in civil engineering42.11Construction of roads and motorways
Alternative labels
paver
road costruction worker
road construction project worker
rad construction worker
road paver
road paviour
rod construction worker
surfacing worker
road construction worcker
roading construction worker
runway construction worker
highway construction worker
construction worker on roads
road construction operative
civil engineering project worker
road constructinn worker
Occupation group
Earthmoving and related plant operators (8342)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/5f68c4c3-9d25-48e2-8efc-5471a80fb155 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 8342.6 |
| ISCO group | 8342 |
| Concept type | Occupation |