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O*NET detailed work activityMix substances or compounds needed for work activities
Stays humanHands-on work
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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 Prepare mixtures or solutions, 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, 26 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Mix mortar, plaster, and grout, manually or using machines, according to standard formulas.
- Control the viscosity and weight of the drilling fluid.
- Mix sealing compounds by hand or with portable electric mixers.
- Weigh clay, and mix with water and chemicals to make drilling mud, using portable mixers.
- Mix and pour concrete around bases of posts, or tamp soil into postholes to embed posts.
- Mix mortar or grout and pour or spread mortar or grout on marble slabs, stone, or foundation.
- Weigh clay, and mix with water and chemicals to make drilling mud.
- Mix mortar and plaster to desired consistency or direct workers who perform mixing.
- Blend marble chip mixtures, place into panels, and push a roller over the surface to embed the chips.
- Mix cleaning solutions, abrasive compositions, or other compounds, according to formulas.
- Mix cement, sand, and water to produce concrete, grout, or slurry, using hoe, trowel, tamper, scraper, or concrete-mixing machine.
- Mix cement, sand, and water to produce concrete, grout, or slurry, using hoe, trowel, tamper, scraper, or concrete-mixing machine.
- Mix specified amounts of sand, clay, dirt, or mortar powder with water to form refractory mixtures.
- Perform minor plumbing, welding, or concrete mixing work.
- Chop tar into small pieces, and heat chopped tar in kettles.
- Mix and match colors of paint, stain, or varnish with oil or thinning and drying additives to obtain desired colors and consistencies.
- Mix plaster, and carry plaster to plasterers.
- Mix paste, using paste powder and water, and brush paste onto surfaces.
- Mix ingredients to create compounds for covering or cleaning surfaces.
- Blend compounds to form adhesive mixtures used for marker installation.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Measure designated amounts of ingredients for terrazzo or grout, according to standard formulas and specifications, using graduated containers and scales, and load ingredients into portable mixer.
- Mix, apply, and spread plaster, concrete, mortar, cement, mastic, glue or other adhesives to form a bed for the tiles, using brush, trowel and screed.
- Mix and apply mortar or cement to edges and ends of drain tiles to seal halves and joints.
- Mix, pour, or spread concrete, using portable cement mixers.
- Dig holes, set forms, and mix and pour concrete into forms to make foundations for wood or steel derricks.
- Mix or pour concrete into forms to encase waste material for disposal.