Index
Intro
Construction trades helpers and labourers assist skilled tradespersons and perform labouring activities at construction sites, in quarries and in surface mines. They are employed by construction companies, trade and labour contractors, and surface mine and quarry operators.
Mobility is possible among workers in this unit group.
Main Duties
Construction trades helpers and labourers perform some or all of the following duties:
- Load and unload construction materials, and move materials to work areas
- Erect and dismantle concrete forms, scaffolding, ramps, catwalks, shoring and barricades required at construction sites
- Mix, pour and spread materials such as concrete and asphalt
- Assist tradespersons such as carpenters, bricklayers, cement finishers, roofers and glaziers in construction activities
- Assist heavy equipment operators to secure special attachments to equipment, signal operators to guide them in moving equipment and provide assistance in other activities
- Assist in aligning pipes and perform related activities during oil and gas pipeline construction
- Assist in drilling and blasting rock at construction sites
- Assist miners in excavating and in setting up and operating various drills and other surface mining machinery
- Level earth to fine grade specifications using rake and shovel
- Assist in demolishing buildings using prying bars and other tools, and sort, clean and pile salvaged materials
- Remove rubble and other debris at construction sites using rakes, shovels, wheelbarrows and other equipment
- Operate pneumatic hammers, vibrators and tampers as directed
- Tend or feed machines or equipment used in construction such as mixers, compressors and pumps
- Clean up chemical spills and other contaminants, and remove asbestos and other hazardous materials
- Oil and grease hoists and similar equipment
- Direct traffic at or near construction sites
- Perform other activities at construction sites, as directed.
Employment Requirements
- Some experience as a general construction labourer may be required for construction trade helpers.
- Some pipeline workers, such as stabbers, mandrel operators and pre-heater tenders, usually require one season of experience in oil and gas pipeline construction.
- Flagmen/women may require a traffic control certificate.
All Titles
- access floor installer helper
- air breaker operator
- air gun operator
- air hammer operator – construction
- air lock tender
- air tool operator
- air track drill operator helper
- asbestos fibre preparer
- asbestos remover
- asbestos worker – construction
- asphalt cold patcher
- asphalt mixer
- asphalt plant labourer – construction
- asphalt raker
- asphalt roofer helper
- asphalt spreader
- asphalt worker – road
- awning installer helper
- batterboard setter
- bending machine operator – pipelines
- bill poster
- bituminous paving labourer
- bituminous paving machine operator
- blacktop raker
- blacktop spreader
- blower operator, insulation
- brick cleaner
- bricklayer helper
- brickmason’s helper
- bridge gang worker – construction
- building and house wrecker
- building painter helper
- building wrecker
- cabinetmaker’s helper
- carpenter helper
- carpet layer helper
- carpet mechanics helper
- caulker – construction
- caulker, precast concrete
- cement and concrete pump tender
- cement finisher helper
- cement gun nozzle operator
- cement gun operator
- cement mixer operator – construction
- cement pump operator
- chainman/woman, pile drivingchainman, pile driving, chainwoman, pile driving, pile driving chainman, pile driving chainwoman
- churn drill operator helper – water well
- clamper – construction
- cold patcher, asphalt
- concrete block pourer
- concrete breaker
- concrete finisher helper
- concrete float pourer
- concrete former helper
- concrete gun operator
- concrete mixer helper
- concrete mixer operator – construction
- concrete mixer operator helper – highway construction
- concrete paver operator helper
- concrete paving labourer
- concrete pourer – construction
- concrete pump operator
- concrete spreader operator
- concrete vibrator operator, manual
- concrete waterproofer – construction
- construction craft labourer
- construction electrician helper
- construction helper
- construction labourer
- construction labourer and helper
- construction trades helper
- construction worker
- crane chaser
- crane hooker
- cupola spray reliner
- curb builder, manual
- dampproofer helper
- deck worker
- demolition worker
- diamond driller helper – surface mining
- digger – construction
- digger, sewers
- ditch cleaner – construction
- door frame installer
- dope machine operator – pipelines
- dragline operator helper
- dredge worker
- driller helper – surface mining
- drywall and acoustical installer helper
- drywall sander
- earthworks labourer – construction
- erector, highway signs
- erector, scaffold
- excavation labourer
- excavation worker
- exterior cladder helper
- finisher helper, terrazzo
- firebrick layer helper
- fitter helper – construction
- flagman/womanflagman, flagman – construction, flagwoman, flagwoman – construction
- flagman/woman – construction
- floor coverer helper
- floor layer’s helper
- floor sander and finisher helper
- floorcovering installer helper
- floorcovering mechanic helper
- form remover – construction
- form setter, metal – construction
- form stripper – construction
- foundation dampproofer helper
- foundation drill operator helper
- foundation form worker
- foundation waterproofer, construction
- framer helper – construction
- gas pipelayer – construction
- general construction labourer
- glass setter helper
- glass worker helper – construction
- glazier helper
- grade tamper – construction
- ground worker, pile driving
- grout machine operator
- grout pump operator
- grouter
- gunite mixer – construction
- guniter – construction
- helper, air track drill operator
- helper, asphalt roofer
- helper, awning installer
- helper, bricklayer
- helper, brickmason
- helper, building painter
- helper, cabinetmaker
- helper, carpenter
- helper, carpet layer
- helper, carpet mechanic
- helper, cement finisher
- helper, churn drill operator – water well
- helper, concrete finisher
- helper, concrete former
- helper, concrete mixer operator
- helper, concrete paver operator
- helper, construction
- helper, construction electrician
- helper, construction trades
- helper, dragline operator – crane operation
- helper, drywall and acoustical board installer
- helper, fitter – construction
- helper, floor coverer
- helper, floor sander and finisher
- helper, floorcovering installer
- helper, floorcovering mechanic
- helper, glass setter
- helper, glass worker – construction
- helper, glazier
- helper, highway concrete mixer operator
- helper, insulation hosemanhoseman insulation helper, hosewoman insulation helper
- helper, insulator
- helper, interior and exterior wall erector
- helper, interior wall finisher
- helper, lightning rod erector
- helper, marble setter
- helper, mason
- helper, metal roofer – construction
- helper, metal trim erector
- helper, mole operator – construction
- helper, oil burner installer
- helper, ornamental iron erector
- helper, ornamental metal worker
- helper, painter – construction
- helper, painter and decorator
- helper, paperhanger – construction
- helper, pavement line painter
- helper, pile driver operator – crane operation
- helper, pile-driving lead placer
- helper, plasterer
- helper, plate fitter – construction
- helper, plumber
- helper, power shovel operator
- helper, rigger – construction
- helper, road mixer operator
- helper, roofer
- helper, sheet metal worker – construction
- helper, sider
- helper, spray truck
- helper, steam fitter – construction
- helper, steel erector
- helper, steel form setter
- helper, structural plate fitter – construction
- helper, terrazzo finisher
- helper, terrazzo layer
- helper, terrazzo mechanic
- helper, terrazzo polisher
- helper, tile setter
- helper, trades – construction
- helper, tunnelling machine operator – construction
- helper, waterproofer
- helper, welder-fitter – construction
- highway concrete mixer operator helper
- highway maintenance worker
- highway sign erector
- horizontal earth-boring machine helper
- hoseman/woman insulation helper
- hoseman/woman, insulationhoseman, insulation, hosewoman, insulation
- industrial chimney repairer-mason helperindustrial chimney repairman-mason helper, industrial chimney repairwoman-mason helper
- installer helper, awnings
- installer helper, vanities and kitchen cupboards
- installer, seats – construction
- insulation blower
- insulation blower helper
- insulation blower operator
- insulator helper
- interior and exterior wall erector helper
- interior finisher helper
- ironworker helper
- jackhammer operator – construction
- joiner helper – construction
- labourer, asphalt plant – construction
- labourer, bituminous paving
- labourer, concrete paving
- labourer, construction
- labourer, earthworks – construction
- labourer, excavation
- labourer, paving operations
- labourer, pipeline
- labourer, quarry
- labourer, shore dredging
- lightning rod erector helper
- liner installer, pipelines
- maintenance carpenter helper
- manual concrete vibrator operator
- marble setter helper
- masonry pointer and caulker
- mason’s helper
- measurer
- metal form setter – construction
- metal roofer helper – construction
- metal scaffold erector
- metal trim erector helper
- mixer, gunite – construction
- mole operator helper – construction
- monument erector
- monument setter
- mud jack operator
- nozzle worker – pile driving
- operator, air breaker
- operator, cement gun
- operator, jackhammer – construction
- operator, pipeline mandrel
- operator, tamper
- ornamental iron erector helper
- ornamental metal worker helper
- painter and decorator helper
- painter helper – construction
- painter, pavement lines
- paper latcher – construction
- paperhanger helper
- pavement line painter
- pavement line painter helper
- pavement striper
- paving operations labourer
- pile driver operator’s helper
- pile driving chainman/woman
- pile driving ground worker
- pipe aligner – pipeline construction
- pipe doper – construction
- pipe-cleaning and covering machine operator
- pipefitter helper – construction
- pipelayer
- pipelayer – construction
- pipelayer – drainage systems
- pipelayer – irrigation
- pipelayer, gas – construction
- pipeline caulker
- pipeline labourer
- pipeline mandrel operator
- pipeline welder helper
- pipeline worker – construction
- pipeline-liner installer
- pit bottom worker
- plasterer helper
- plate fitter helper – construction
- plumber helper
- pneumatic drill operator – construction
- pneumatic hammer operator – construction
- post hole driller
- power curber tender
- power shovel operator helper
- precast concrete caulker
- preheater tender – pipelines
- pump tender, cement and concrete
- quarry dump attendant
- quarry labourer
- raker, asphalt
- refractory bricklayer helper
- reinforcing wire mesh worker
- renovation carpenter helper
- rigger’s helper – construction
- rip-rap placer
- road form setter
- road mixer operator helper
- road spray truck helper
- roofer helper
- roofer helper, asphalt
- rotary driller helper – water well
- sander, drywall
- sander, wallboards
- scaffold erector
- seam caulker – construction
- seat installer – construction
- setter, monuments
- setter, skids
- sewage pipelayer
- sewer digger
- sheather helper
- sheet metal worker helper – construction
- shore dredging labourer
- sider helper
- sign erector, highways
- skid setter – pipeline construction
- slinger – construction
- slip form curb machine tender
- smelter liner
- spacer – pipeline construction
- spray truck helper
- spreader box tender
- stabber
- stabber – pipeline construction
- steam fitter’s helper – construction
- steel erector helper
- steel form setting worker
- steel forms setter helper
- stone spreader operator, manual
- structural plate fitter helper – construction
- structural steel erector helper
- tamper operator – construction
- tank builder helper
- tender, air lock
- tender, cement and concrete pump
- tender, power curber
- tender, spreader box – construction
- terrazzo finisher helper
- terrazzo grinder, manual
- terrazzo layer helper
- terrazzo machine grinder
- terrazzo mechanic helper
- terrazzo polisher helper
- tile layer helper
- tile setter helper
- tinsmith helper – construction
- tombstone erector
- tombstone setter
- trades helper – construction
- trench digger
- tunnelling machine operator helper – construction
- underground labourer – construction
- vanity and kitchen cupboard installer helper
- vibrator roller operator
- vibratory compactor operator
- wallboard sander
- water pipe installer
- water well driller helper
- waterproofer – construction
- waterproofer helper
- window caulker
- wire mesh setter
- wrecker, buildings
- wrecker, buildings and houses
Exclusions
- Other trades helpers and labourers (7612)
- Public works and maintenance labourers (7621)