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Construction worker — skills, knowledge and links
Where this job sits in the official classifications, what those classifications say it demands, and what it connects to. Every block names its source: our own judgements, the U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET, or the U.S. Department of Education.
How it connects#
O*NET also lists (no page here yet): Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators · Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining · Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers · Pipelayers · Structural Iron and Steel Workers · Brickmasons and Blockmasons · Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators · Helpers--Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setters
In the official classification#
Construction Laborers
Fit with this page: same job
Job Zone 1–2: very little to some preparation
See it on O*NET OnLine ↗What O*NET rates highest#
From O*NET 47-2061.00 (Construction Laborers). Ordered by O*NET's importance rating; the words are O*NET's own scale anchors.
Transferable skills
- CoordinationImportant
- Operation and ControlImportant
- Operations MonitoringImportant
- Complex Problem SolvingImportant
- Social PerceptivenessImportant
- Equipment SelectionImportant
- Equipment MaintenanceImportant
- Time ManagementImportant
Knowledge
- Building and ConstructionVery important
- Public Safety and SecurityImportant
- MechanicalImportant
- Customer and Personal ServiceImportant
- Education and TrainingSomewhat important
- Administration and ManagementSomewhat important
Work activities
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or MaterialsExtremely important
- Getting InformationVery important
- Monitoring Processes, Materials, or SurroundingsVery important
- Controlling Machines and ProcessesVery important
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and EventsVery important
- Making Decisions and Solving ProblemsVery important
Abilities
- Manual DexterityVery important
- Static StrengthVery important
- Multilimb CoordinationVery important
- Arm-Hand SteadinessVery important
- Oral ComprehensionImportant
- Oral ExpressionImportant
Essential skills
- SpeakingImportant
- Active ListeningImportant
- Reading ComprehensionImportant
- Critical ThinkingImportant
- MonitoringImportant
Our task judgements#
O*NET says what this job demands. It does not say what automation is doing to it — that is what this site's 4 task judgements are for: 2 backed by a verified event, 2 platform inference. VOLO judgement
Sources and rules#
- Four kinds of source, and each block says which: this site's own judgements, O*NET, the U.S. Department of Education's CIP–SOC crosswalk, or something computed mechanically from those. Nothing on this page is a rating we made up.
- O*NET's importance ratings are used only to order and shorten the lists. They are never combined with this site's impact index or evidence counts.
- The fit between our page and an O*NET occupation is our judgement and is stated per code: same job, broader, part of it, or only the closest there is.
- O*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026 release, U.S. Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration, CC BY 4.0. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. The translations of O*NET descriptors on this page are ours, not O*NET's.