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Can You Provide a Job Description for a Person Who Measures the Grade Level in Paving Construction?

The company is Lafarge Canada Inc. and the job entails measuring the grade level so that the equipment operator knows the precise depth to dig.

A vague description of the job entails using a tape measure, simple mathematics, and getting dirty. A safety hazard is walking in front of heavy moving equipment. In addition, 6-inch steel-toed boots are required.

Can you provide a name for this position, more details, and a formula for the simple mathematics performed?

Thanks.

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  1. Mango
    July 25th, 2011 at 16:11 | #1
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    It is Grade Checker.

  2. Zach
    July 25th, 2011 at 16:11 | #2
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    I’m sorry I don’t really know the answer to that question. I would just wait for a chance to ask someone who has experience in paving construction this question for details. I’d ask people who aer either retired from this job or just experienced ones who do quite well in it. Good luck!

  3. bbullough
    July 25th, 2011 at 16:11 | #3
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    try "surveyor". That is far from the only thing they do, but the task is a surveyors job.

  4. oneman c
    July 25th, 2011 at 16:11 | #4
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    Ive done this before. My job title was surveyor. I worked for a bridge building company here in Arkansas. We branched out to a few paving jobs and found ourselves needing to remove some asphalt.
    I already had the design centerline of the new roadway, so I ran through the existing roadway and collected centerline and toe of curb elevations using a total station and Ranger data collector. I marked the centerline every 50 feet and placed offset stakes behind the curb so the equipment operator and the highway department inspector could keep track of where they were on the jobsite. Since the roadway had a 2 percent slope from centerline to toe of curb, it was easy enough to figure cut values for the operator. He simply set the machine to cut to my listed value at the centerline, and set the machine to level itself at a 2 percent slope. After the first pass, he came back up beside the curb, once again cutting to my listed cut value at the curb, but now leveling the machine up at a 2 percent rise toward the new centerline elevation.

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