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Job Description and Working Conditions

CARPENTER/HEAVY HIGHWAY
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What do Heavy Highway workers do?

Heavy highway construction workers build and assemble forms and their components for concrete. Some types of projects include: bridges, retaining walls, tunnels, subways, drainage structures, hydroelectric development, lock, dams and sewage treatment projects.

Heavy highway construction workers read blueprints and sketches, layout structures, cut materials with power and hand tools, rig and place forms and materials. They assemble forms by hand with nails, bolts and arc welding processes.


Working Conditions

CARPENTER/HEAVY HIGHWAY
Heavy highway work requires hard, physical work in all kinds of weather. The majority of work is outdoors and the terrain of the construction site may be rough and uneven. Work may be done on the ground, in trenches, in confined spaces, or at significant heights.

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