road construction workertoroad maintenance worker
A road construction worker already meets 68% of what the road maintenance worker role asks for. The move turns on 3 required skills not yet in the profile.
68%
34.9/ 100
1 Share of the road maintenance worker role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the road construction worker profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.
Why this move works
A road maintenance worker role treats 12 of its required skills as things a road construction worker already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- follow health and safety procedures in construction
- guide operation of heavy construction equipment
- inspect asphalt
- inspect construction supplies
- mechanical tools
- pave asphalt layers
What stands in the way is 3 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 19 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A road maintenance worker role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a road construction worker background worth leading with.
- already held work safely with hot materials handling and moving
- already held lay base courses constructing
- already held lay concrete slabs constructing
- already held pave asphalt layers constructing
- already held remove road surface handling and moving
- already held inspect asphalt information skills
All 19 carried skills, including the 12 the road maintenance worker role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 14 missing skills fall into 7 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.
- required, not held perform traffic sign maintenance required
- optional, not held operate pavement surface friction measuring devices optional
- optional, not held maintain equipment optional
- optional, not held perform minor repairs to equipment optional
- required, not held inspect road signs required
- optional, not held inspect drainage channels optional
- required, not held asphalt mixes required
- optional, not held clear accident site optional
- optional, not held use gardening equipment optional
- optional, not held carry out de-icing activities optional
- optional, not held maintain landscape site optional
- optional, not held provide first aid optional
- optional, not held paint with a paint gun optional
1 further area in the appendix
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a road maintenance worker role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 inspect road signs skill · sector specific
- 02 perform traffic sign maintenance skill · sector specific
- 03 asphalt mixes knowledge · cross sector
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 19 skills that carry over
- already held follow health and safety procedures in construction skill
- already held guide operation of heavy construction equipment skill
- already held inspect asphalt skill
- already held inspect construction supplies skill
- already held mechanical tools knowledge
- already held pave asphalt layers skill
- already held remove road surface skill
- already held transport construction supplies skill
- already held types of asphalt coverings knowledge
- already held use safety equipment in construction skill
- already held work ergonomically skill
- already held work safely with hot materials skill
- already held apply proofing membranes skill
- already held keep personal administration skill
- already held keep records of work progress skill
- already held lay base courses skill
- already held lay concrete slabs skill
- already held place temporary road signage skill
- already held work in a construction team skill
The 1 learning area not shown above
- optional, not held road signage standards optional
11 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held clear accident site optional
- optional, not held inspect drainage channels optional
- optional, not held operate pavement surface friction measuring devices optional
- optional, not held road signage standards optional
- optional, not held use gardening equipment optional
- optional, not held carry out de-icing activities optional
- optional, not held maintain equipment optional
- optional, not held maintain landscape site optional
- optional, not held paint with a paint gun optional
- optional, not held perform minor repairs to equipment optional
- optional, not held provide first aid optional
18 held skills the road maintenance worker role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role drive mobile heavy construction equipment skill
- not needed by the target role install frost protection materials skill
- not needed by the target role install kerbstones skill
- not needed by the target role level earth surface skill
- not needed by the target role manoeuvre heavy trucks skill
- not needed by the target role monitor heavy machinery skill
- not needed by the target role operate bulldozer skill
- not needed by the target role operate excavator skill
- not needed by the target role operate mobile crane skill
- not needed by the target role operate road roller skill
- not needed by the target role perform drainage work skill
- not needed by the target role plan surface slope skill
- not needed by the target role prepare subgrade for road pavement skill
- not needed by the target role prevent damage to utility infrastructure skill
- not needed by the target role process incoming construction supplies skill
- not needed by the target role set up temporary construction site infrastructure skill
- not needed by the target role transfer stone blocks skill
- not needed by the target role work safely with chemicals skill
2 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- required, not held asphalt mixes required
- optional, not held road signage standards optional
Other moves recorded from road construction worker
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.