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A road worker does road work and helps to build new roads and pavements, repair or improve existing ones, and bury cables underneath the road surfaces. They are also called Highway Maintenance Operatives and Vehicle Restraint Operatives.
The Roadworker does as follows:
- Digging trenches for laying cables and pipes for services such as gas, electricity, water, telephones and television
- Using hand tools, such as picks and shovels, using machinery such as drills, cement mixers and rollers
- Driving large vehicles with machinery attached
- Mixing and spreading concrete, tarmac, gravel and crushed stone
- Laying kerb slabs and paving stones
- Painting road markings, filling in potholes and resurfacing cracks
- Putting up fences, barriers (called vehicle restraint systems) and road signs or traffic lights and street lights
- Trimming trees and grass in the central reservations
- Spreading grit and salt in snowy weather