UNIT GROUP 9912 EARTHMOVING LABOURERS
EARTHMOVING LABOURERS perform tasks in excavating earth, clearing and levelling sites, and digging irrigation channels.
Skill Level:
The entry requirement for this unit group is completion of compulsory secondary education or higher qualification.
Tasks Include:
- removing scrub, timber, rocks and other foreign material to clear sites
- driving stakes into ground to indicate location of construction sites
- spreading and levelling soil, gravel and sand on roads and driveways, trench bottoms and similar locations
- trimming sides and squaring corners not reached by excavating machines
- shovelling excavated material onto conveyors, wheelbarrows or trucks for removal
- giving directions to truck drivers dumping loads
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