Job Description:

• 1) Operates concrete paving machine to spread and smooth freshly poured concrete surfaces for concrete roads and landing fields: Starts machine, engages clutch, and shifts gears to control machine's movement along rails on concrete forms.

• 2) Moves levers and turns handwheels to lower attachment that spreads wet concrete within forms.

• 3) Observes surface of concrete to point out low spots for workers to add concrete.

• 4) Operates machine with attachments to successively vibrate, screed, strike-off, and float surface of concrete, to spray on curing compound, and cut expansion joints.

• 5) When cutting expansion joints, places strips of material, such as cork, asphalt, or steel, in joints, or places roll of expansion-joint material on machine that automatically inserts material into joints.

• 6) When operating machine to screed and float surface, may be designated Concrete-Finishing-Machine Operator.

• 7) May be designated according to specific function of machine attachment as Center-Line-Cutter Operator; Curing-Machine Operator; Gang-Vibrator Operator; Joint-Machine Operator; Longitudinal-Float Operator.

• 8) May be designated: Screed Operator; Spreader Operator; Strike-Off-Machine Operator; Vibrating-Screed Operator.