Extraction Worker Job Description

Extraction Workers directly supervise and coordinate activities of construction or other Extraction Workers.

Tasks of an Extraction Worker:

• Extraction Workers examine and inspect work progress, equipment, and construction sites to verify safety and to ensure that specifications are met.
• Extraction Workers read specification such as blueprints to determine construction requirements and to plan procedures.
• Extraction Workers estimate material and worker requirements to complete jobs.
• Extraction Workers supervise, coordinate, and schedule the activities of construction or extractive workers.
• Extraction Workers confer with managerial and technical personnel, other departments, and contractors in order to resolve problems and to coordinate activities.
• Extraction Workers coordinate work activities with other construction project activities.
• Extraction Workers order or requisition materials and supplies.
• Extraction Workers locate, measure, and mark site locations and placement of structures and equipment, using measuring and marketing equipment.
• Extraction Workers record information such as personnel, production, and operational data on specified forms and reports.
• Extraction Workers assign work to employees, based on material and worker requirements of specific jobs.

The Extraction Worker needs knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads. The Extraction Worker needs knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resources allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. The Extraction Worker needs knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistic, and their applications. The Extraction Worker needs knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs. An Extraction Worker needs knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. Public safety and security is always a concern for the Extraction Worker. The Extraction Worker needs a good knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.

The Extraction Worker needs knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models. The Extraction Worker must have knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods. The Extraction Worker needs knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and serves. The Extraction Worker must have knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.

The Extraction Worker must be able to manage their time and the time of others effectively. Then they must be capable to adjust actions in relation to others’ actions. Often they need to be able to teach others how to do something pertaining to the job function. The Extraction Worker must be able to consider the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. The Extraction Worker must talk to others to convey information effectively. The Extraction Worker must give full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. The Extraction Worker uses logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. The Extraction Worker must determine the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.

The Extraction Worker understands written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. They must have a good understanding of mathematics to solve problems. The Extraction Worker must have the ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. The Extraction Worker must have the ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. Farther, the Extraction Worker must have the ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. This includes the ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions which includes finding relationships among seemingly unrelated events. The Extraction Worker needs the ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules and patterns.