A
Maintain grounds of property using hand or power tools or equipment.
Landscaping & Groundskeeping Workers
Perform a variety of duties other than cooking, such as preparing cold foods and shellfish, slicing meat, and brewing coffee or tea.
Food Preparation Workers
Smooth and finish surfaces of poured concrete, such as floors, walks, sidewalks, roads, or curbs using a variety of hand and power tools. Align forms for sidewalks, curbs, or gutters; patch voids; and use saws to cut expansion joints.
Cement Masons & Concrete Finishers
Operate or tend sewing machines to join, reinforce, decorate, or perform related sewing operations in the manufacture of garment or nongarment products.
Sewing Machine Operators
Assemble or repair oil field equipment using hand and power tools.
Roustabouts, Oil & Gas
On the job: monitor machine operation to detect problems such as defective stitching, breaks in thread, or machine malfunctions; place spools of thread, cord, or other materials on spindles, insert bobbins, and thread ends through machine guides and components; position items under needles, using marks on machines, clamps, templates, or cloth as guides.
Sewing Machine Operators
Facilitate food service. Clean tables; remove dirty dishes; replace soiled table linens; set tables; replenish supply of clean linens, silverware, glassware, and dishes; supply service bar with food; and serve items such as water, condiments, and coffee to patrons.
Dining Room & Cafeteria Attendants & Bartender Helpers
Grade, sort, or classify unprocessed food and other agricultural products by size, weight, color, or condition.
Graders & Sorters, Agricultural Products
Separate blocks of rough dimension stone from quarry mass using jackhammers, wedges, or chop saws.
Rock Splitters, Quarry
Grind, sand, or polish, using hand tools or hand-held power tools, a variety of metal, wood, stone, clay, plastic, or glass objects. Includes chippers, buffers, and finishers.
Grinding & Polishing Workers, Hand
On the job: place products in containers according to grade and mark grades on containers; weigh products or estimate their weight, visually or by feel; discard inferior or defective products or foreign matter, and place acceptable products in containers for further processing.
Graders & Sorters, Agricultural Products
On the job, check the forms that hold the concrete to see that they are properly constructed; set the forms that hold concrete to the desired pitch and depth, and align them; spread, level, and smooth concrete, using rake, shovel, hand or power trowel, hand or power screed, and float.
Cement Masons & Concrete Finishers
Manually plant, cultivate, and harvest vegetables, fruits, nuts, horticultural specialties, and field crops. Use hand tools, such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Duties may include tilling soil and applying fertilizers; transplanting, weeding, thinning, or pruning crops; applying pesticides; or cleaning, grading, sorting, packing, and loading harvested products. May construct trellises, repair fences and farm buildings, or participate in irrigation activities.
Farmworkers & Laborers, Crop, Nursery, & Greenhouse
On the job: keep pipe deck and main deck areas clean and tidy; unscrew or tighten pipes, casing, tubing, and pump rods, using hand and power wrenches and tongs; walk flow lines to locate leaks, using electronic detectors and by making visual inspections, and repair the leaks.
Roustabouts, Oil & Gas
Use hand tools or hand-held power tools to cut and trim a variety of manufactured items, such as carpet, fabric, stone, glass, or rubber.
Cutters & Trimmers, Hand
On the job: use knives, cleavers, meat saws, bandsaws, or other equipment to perform meat cutting and trimming; weigh meats and tag containers for weight and contents; inspect meat products for defects, bruises or blemishes and remove them along with any excess fat.
Meat, Poultry, & Fish Cutters & Trimmers
On the job: grind, sand, clean, or polish objects or parts to correct defects or to prepare surfaces for further finishing, using hand tools and power tools; verify quality of finished workpieces by inspecting them, comparing them to templates, measuring their dimensions, or testing them in working machinery; move controls to adjust, start, or stop equipment during grinding and polishing processes.
Grinding & Polishing Workers, Hand
On the job: locate grain line patterns to determine how rocks will split when cut; remove pieces of stone from larger masses, using jackhammers, wedges, and other tools; insert wedges and feathers into holes, and drive wedges with sledgehammers to split stone sections from masses
Rock Splitters, Quarry
Perform any combination of light cleaning duties to maintain private households or commercial establishments, such as hotels and hospitals, in a clean and orderly manner.
Maids & Housekeeping Cleaners
Use hands or hand tools to perform routine cutting and trimming of meat, poultry, and seafood.
Meat, Poultry, & Fish Cutters & Trimmers
On the job: record information about crops, such as pesticide use, yields, or costs; direct and monitor the work of casual and seasonal help during planting and harvesting; participate in the inspection, grading, sorting, storage, and post-harvest treatment of crops.
Farmworkers & Laborers, Crop, Nursery, & Greenhouse
On the job, keep storage areas and carts well-stocked, clean, and tidy; carry linens, towels, toilet items, and cleaning supplies, using wheeled carts; clean rooms, hallways, lobbies, lounges, restrooms, corridors, elevators, stairways, locker rooms, and other work areas so that health standards are met.
Maids & Housekeeping Cleaners
On the job, runs cash registers; serves ice water, coffee, rolls, or butter to patrons; scrapes and stacks dirty dishes and carries dishes and other tableware to kitchens for cleaning.
Dining Room & Cafeteria Attendants & Bartender Helpers
Workers typically perform a variety of tasks, which may include any combination of the following: sod laying, mowing, trimming, planting, watering, fertilizing, digging, raking, sprinkler installation, and installation of mortarless segmental concrete masonry wall units.
Landscaping & Groundskeeping Workers
On the job: mark or discard items with defects such as spots, stains, scars, snags, chips, scratches, or unacceptable shapes or finishes; trim excess material or cut threads off finished products, such as cutting loose ends of plastic off a manufactured toy for a smoother finish; cut, shape, and trim materials, such as textiles, food, glass, stone, and metal, using knives, scissors, and other hand tools, portable power tools, or bench-mounted tools.
Cutters & Trimmers, Hand