Job Description:

• 1) Performs any combination of following tasks in laying, repairing, and extending underground gas and steam mains and distribution pipes: Erects barricades and places lanterns around work site to protect workers from street traffic.

• 2) Breaks up pavement, using airhammer, and digs ditches preparatory to laying or removing pipe.

• 3) Maneuvers pipe sections, valves, and fittings into position, and holds pieces steady while worker tightens threaded connections.

• 4) Cuts, threads, and joins pipe sections as directed.

• 5) Assists PIPE CAULKER in caulking pipe joints.

• 6) Mixes and lays concrete to raise top of manhole to level of new street construction.

• 7) Patches cracks in underground vault walls with concrete and brushes or sprays walls with waterproof compound.

• 8) May drive truck and tend mobile ventilating equipment to supply fresh air to workers in underground vaults.