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Automation Squad

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AI for Paving Equipment Operators

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

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

Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators · O*NET 47-2071.00 · Job Zone 2 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database

Automation coverage

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AI you can use for this job

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The tools this job actually uses

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  • HCSS HeavyBid
  • Time report software
  • Warehouse management system WMS

What this job involves

20 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 20.

  1. Start machine, engage clutch, and push and move levers to guide machine along forms or guidelines and to control the operation of machine attachments.
  2. Fill tanks, hoppers, or machines with paving materials.
  3. Control paving machines to push dump trucks and to maintain a constant flow of asphalt or other material into hoppers or screeds.
  4. Observe distribution of paving material to adjust machine settings or material flow, and indicate low spots for workers to add material.
  5. Coordinate truck dumping.
  6. Drive machines onto truck trailers, and drive trucks to transport machines and material to and from job sites.
  7. Inspect, clean, maintain, and repair equipment, using mechanics' hand tools, or report malfunctions to supervisors.
  8. Set up and tear down equipment.
  9. Operate machines to spread, smooth, level, or steel-reinforce stone, concrete, or asphalt on road beds.
  10. Light burners or start heating units of machines, and regulate screed temperatures and asphalt flow rates.
  11. Control traffic.
  12. 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.
  13. Shovel blacktop.
  14. Operate tamping machines or manually roll surfaces to compact earth fills, foundation forms, and finished road materials, according to grade specifications.
  15. Drive and operate curbing machines to extrude concrete or asphalt curbing.
  16. Operate oil distributors, loaders, chip spreaders, dump trucks, and snow plows.
  17. Operate machines that clean or cut expansion joints in concrete or asphalt and that rout out cracks in pavement.
  18. Cut or break up pavement and drive guardrail posts, using machines equipped with interchangeable hammers.
  19. Install dies, cutters, and extensions to screeds onto machines, using hand tools.
  20. Set up forms and lay out guidelines for curbs, according to written specifications, using string, spray paint, and concrete or water mixes.
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