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O*NET detailed work activityCompact materials to create level bases
Stays humanHands-on work
11 jobs15 tasks
This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Perform general construction or extraction activities, under the O*NET work activity group Performing General Physical Activities. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 15 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Grade or level trench bases, using tamping machines or hand tools.
- Prepare base for installation by removing unstable or unsuitable materials, compacting and grading the soil, draining or stabilizing weak or saturated soils and taking measures to prevent water penetration and migration of bedding sand.
- Compact bedding sand and pavers to finish the paved area, using a plate compactor.
- Operate tamping machines or manually roll surfaces to compact earth fills, foundation forms, and finished road materials, according to grade specifications.
- Screed sand level to an even thickness, and recheck sand exposed to elements, raking and rescreeding if necessary.
- Operate power vibrator to compact concrete.
- Clean, grade, or level ballast on railroad tracks.
- Operate compactors, scrapers, or rollers to level, compact, or cover refuse at disposal grounds.
- Fill and tamp holes, using cement, earth, and tamping devices.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Sweep sand into the joints and compact pavement until the joints are full.
- Dump, spread, and tamp asphalt, using pneumatic tampers, to repair joints and patch broken pavement.
- Dig ditches or trenches, backfill excavations, or compact and level earth to grade specifications, using picks, shovels, pneumatic tampers, or rakes.
- Secure stakes to grids for constructions of footings, nail scabs to footing forms, and vibrate and float concrete.
- Drive graders, tamping machines, brooms, or ballast spreading machines to redistribute gravel or ballast between rails.
- Cover repaired pipes with dirt, and pack backfilled excavations, using air and gasoline tampers.