Road Construction Operatives

Road construction operatives construct, repair and maintain roads and lay paving slabs and kerbstones to form pavements and street gutters.

Wages

New workers
AVERAGE
Experienced
£ 22,044
£ 31,437
£ 47,857

Available jobs

In the past year there were 15,440 vacancies for this type of job

Related courses

People work towards these careers by taking these courses at college and uni.

What they do most days?

  • Removes damaged paving slabs and kerb stones, lays bedding of sand, concrete or mortar on prepared foundation, lays new slabs or stones and fills joints with mortar.

  • Spreads aggregate over road surfaces using shovel and lays markings on road surface.

  • Spreads bitumen, tar or asphalt and compacts surface using roller.

  • Heats bitumen in bucket, applies it to newly laid asphalt and beats or draws tamper head on asphalt to close joints.

  • Cuts away broken road surface with pick or pneumatic drill.

  • Inspects road surfaces for hazards or signs of deterioration, clears mud, weeds and debris from road and spreads grit or salt as required.

Hard Skills

Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Sandbag

  • Risk Analysis

  • Subcontracting

  • Highway Maintenance

  • Intrapulmonary Percussive Ventilator

  • Traffic Flow

  • Excavation

  • Reliability Availability Maintainability And Safety Software

  • Road Traffic Controls

  • Operations Management

Soft Skills

Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Communications

  • Operations

  • Management

  • Detail Oriented

  • Planning

  • Loading And Unloading

  • Customer Service

  • Adaptability

  • Consulting

  • Enthusiasm

How do I get a job like this?

People in these types of job started their career paths after studying courses like the ones below.