Scraper Operator
OFO Code: 734210
Last checked 3 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 734210
- Occupation
- Scraper Operator
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- PLANT AND MACHINE OPERATORS AND ASSEMBLERS
- Unit group
- 7342 · Earthmoving and Related Plant Operators
Official description
Earthmoving and related plant operators operate machines to excavate, grade, level, smooth and compact earth or similar materials.
More official OFO detail
- Operating and monitoring machinery for digging trenches for sewers, drainage, water, oil, gas or similar pipelines
- Operating and monitoring machines which spread and smooth concrete or bituminous or tar preparations to construct roadways, roads or similar surfaces
- Operating and monitoring machinery equipped with concave steel blade to move, distribute and level earth, sand, snow and other materials
- Operating and monitoring power roller to compact and smooth layers of materials in making roads, pavements and similar work
- Operating and monitoring equipment to remove sand, gravel and mud from bottom of body of water
- Operating and monitoring machines for hammering wooden, concrete or steel piles into ground
- Operating and monitoring excavating machinery equipped with moveable shovel, grab-bucket or dragline bucket, to excavate and move earth, rock, sand, gravel or similar materials
2. Demand status
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3. Salary evidence
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
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10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Planned
- DHET Occupations in High Demand · Planned
- Critical Skills List · Planned
- QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Planned
- Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Planned
- SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Planned