Logistics and labouring
Civil works labourer
Key facts
This job is hiring in the United States; its exposure to AI is low. AI exposure: very low according to the ILO, low according to the BLS. Employment change in the United States by 2035: +4% (BLS).
The job
Civil engineering labourers (ISCO 9312). Civil engineering labourers perform routine tasks in connection with the building and maintenance of roads, railways, dams and other civil engineering projects.
Page built from official classifications (ILO, ESCO); figures cover all the jobs grouped here.
67 job titles linked to this page
Titles from the European ESCO classification. They are also used for search.
- building worker
- carriageway sign painter
- civil engineering company worker
- civil engineering contract worker
- civil engineering worker
- civils ground worker
- civils groundworker
- civils operative
- civils worker
- construction worker
- construction worker (road marking)
- deep drainage operative
- deep drainage worker
- drainage groundworker
- drainage installer
- drainage operative
- drainage pipe layer
- drainage system installer
- drainage worker
- ground worker
- groundwater drainage operative
- groundwater drainage worker
- groundworker
- highway maintenance worker
- highway sign erector
- highway sign installer
- highways operative
- layer in railway sites
- light rail layer
- light railtrack layer
- pipelayer
- plate layer
- rail layer
- rail machine operator
- rail track layer
- railtrack layer
- railway line layer
- road maintenance operative
- road maintenance team member
- road maintenance worker
- road marker
- road marking machine operator
- road marking operative
- road marking operator
- road marking technician
- road marking worker
- road painter
- road sign erector
- road sign installer
- road sign team worker
- road sign worker
- site worker
- track layer
- track machine operator
- traffic sign erector
- traffic sign installer
- tramway layer
- waterway construction labourer
- waterway construction man
- waterway construction operative
- waterway construction woman
- waterway construction worker
- waterway maintenance man
- waterway maintenance operative
- waterway maintenance woman
- waterway maintenance worker
- white line marker
Training
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Gauges
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Sources
- AI exposure categories and employment projections, 2025-2035 (XLSX file)Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States · August 2026 · official statistics
- Generative AI and Jobs: a refined global index of occupational exposureInternational Labour Organization and NASK · May 2025 · large survey
- ESCO, European classification of skills, competences, qualifications and occupations (job titles and O*NET crosswalk)European Commission · version 1.2 · official statistics
- Jobs in 2030: projections by occupational family (summary table)Dares and France Stratégie · March 2022 · official statistics
- Labour needs survey (BMO) 2026France Travail · 2026 · large survey
- EURES report on labour shortages and surpluses 2025, annexEuropean Labour Authority · June 2026 · official statistics
Checked on 27 October 2026.