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Tools Include:

  • Air compressors
  • Pneumatic hammer (Air hammers)
  • Pipe vises (Aligning clamps)
  • Welders (Arc welders)
  • Backhoes
  • Slings (Belting slings)
  • Power grinders (Bevel grinding machines)
  • Blocks or pulleys (Block and tackle equipment)
  • Boring or sinking machinery (Boring machines)
  • Wheel bulldozers (Bulldozers)
  • Trenching machines (Cable plows)
  • Caulking guns (Caulking tools)
  • Squares (Combination squares)
  • Compactors
  • Power saws (Concrete saws)
  • Blow torches (Cutting torches)
  • Desktop computers
  • Water pumps (Ditch pumps)
  • Dredgers (Dredges)
  • Workshop presses (Drill presses)
  • Power drills (Drilling machines)
  • Track excavators (Excavators)
  • Explosimeters
  • Tube end finishers (Facing machines)
  • Files
  • Water pumps (Fill pumps)
  • Forklifts
  • Squares (Framing squares)
  • Gas generators (Generators)
  • Graders
  • Hammers
  • Tampers (Hand tampers)
  • Boring or sinking machinery (Horizontal boring machines)
  • Hydraulic truck cranes (Hydraulic cranes)
  • Ladders
  • Laser printers
  • Liquid leak detectors (Leak detection equipment)
  • Pipe bending mandrels (Mandrels)
  • Manlift or personnel lift (Manlifts)
  • Pipe bending tools (Manual benders)
  • Jacks (Manual screw jacks)
  • Metal inert gas MIG welding machinery (Metal inert gas MIG welders)
  • Wire brushes (Motor-driven brushes)
  • Power grinders (Motor-driven grinders)
  • Shovels (Narrow mouth shovels)
  • Notebook computers
  • Metal detectors (Null locators)
  • Socket sets (Offset socket wrench sets)
  • Ohmmeters
  • Levels (Optical levels)
  • Personal computers
  • Drain or pipe cleaning equipment (Pigs)
  • Pneumatic grinders (Pipe beveling machines)
  • Pipe or tube cutters (Pipe cutting machines)
  • Laser measuring systems (Pipe lasers)
  • Threading dies (Pipe threaders)
  • Pipe layer (Pipelayers)
  • Jacks (Pipeline jacks)
  • Power grinders (Portable grinders)
  • Power saws
  • Tampers (Powered tampers)
  • Pressure indicators (Pressure testers)
  • Pry bars
  • Power saws (Reciprocating pipe saws)
  • Tube end finishers (Roll groovers)
  • Shovels (Round point shovels)
  • Mud pumps (Sand pumps)
  • Pneumatic sanding machines (Sandblasters)
  • Scaffolding
  • Hammers (Sledgehammers)
  • Drain or pipe cleaning equipment (Snakes)
  • Power grinders (Stationary grinders)
  • Tap machines or tapping machines (Tapping machines)
  • Diaphragm pumps (Test pumps)
  • Track loaders
  • Integrated tool carriers (Tractor pipe carrier attachments)
  • Backhoes (Tractors with backhoe attachments)
  • Track loaders (Tractors with loader attachments)
  • Level sensors or transmitters (Transit levels)
  • Trenching machines (Trenchers)
  • Tungsten inert gas TIG welding machinery (Tungsten inert gas TIG welding equipment)
  • Voltage or current meters (Voltmeters)
  • Dewatering pumps (Water removal pumps)
  • Welding masks (Welding hoods)
  • Welders (Welding machines)
  • Wheel loaders
  • Winches
  • Circuit tracers (Wire tracers)

Technologies Include:

  • Spreadsheet software
  • Spreadsheet software
  • Word processing software
  • Word processing software



The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet291)

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