Job Description:

• 1) Operates machine that spreads and levels hot-mix bituminous paving material on subgrade of highways and streets: Bolts extensions to screed to adjust width, using wrenches.

• 2) Lights burners to heat screed.

• 3) Starts engine and controls paving machine to push dump truck and maintain constant flow of asphalt into hopper.

• 4) Observes distribution of paving material along screed and controls direction of screed to eliminate voids at curbs and joints.

• 5) Turns valves to regulate temperature of asphalt flowing from hopper when asphalt begins to harden on screed.