← Career directory · Construction and extraction
Highway Maintenance Workers
Does the hands-on work that keeps construction sites running.
Read the full guide
Construction laborers prepare sites, move materials, run tools and small equipment, and help skilled trades on buildings, roads and bridges. Many move into an apprenticeship in a trade.
Open the construction laborer guide
The guide checks the courses against your plan, with things to try each year. Free account needed.
High school courses that build toward it
- English 10 · English
Builds reading and writing, which this job uses.
- Woodworking · Career and Technical
Builds building and construction, which this job uses.
- Geometry · Math
Builds math, which this job uses.
- Physical Education · Health and PE
Builds teaching and training, which this job uses.
- Physics · Science
Builds math, which this job uses.
Ranked by how much the job relies on what each course teaches, from O*NET's knowledge ratings. Your school's own courses and the counselor have the final word.
Highway Maintenance Workers on O*NET OnLine · O*NET 31.0 (U.S. Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0); BLS Employment Projections 2025.