Becoming a Paving and Surfacing Labourer in Queensland

About this role

Paving and Surfacing Labourers perform routine tasks associated in laying bituminous and other paving materials on roads, runways, parking areas and other surfaces to be paved.

What you might do day-to-day in this job

Typical tasks for a Paving and Surfacing Labourer include:

• sweeping paving bases prior to laying asphalt and other surfaces
• sprinkling and brushing hot and cold-mix asphalt over surfaces to be paved and repaired to bond asphalt toppings to bases
• operating tank-truck distributors and hoses to spray tar and road oils and emulsions on graded surfaces prior to paving
• tripping tail-gate levers to discharge hot-mix asphalt into paving machines, and spreading stone chips, gravel and cold-mix asphalt onto road surfaces
• shovelling asphalt mix into areas inaccessible to paving machines, and compacting mix using rakes and hand tampers
• cutting and trimming damaged surfaces using jack-hammers and softening edges of areas to be repaired with blowtorches
• erecting and dismantling barricades
• loading and unloading equipment, and cleaning work sites
• may direct traffic.