General Laborer Jobs

Position Objective / Description:

Performs a variety of manual construction tasks involving roads, highways and heavy construction projects under the direction of a crew foreman.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Hands on – efficiently operate heavy equipment that applies to grading.
• Mixes concrete apply caulking, as needed.
• Assist craft workers, such as carpenters, ironworkers, plasterers and masons
• Measuring and finishing grade stakes, pipe laying, drives stakes, and stretches tight line.
• Maintain clean work area by disposing of trash and debris properly.
• Perform daily maintenance and safety checks of equipment.
• Performs a variety of tasks involving strenuous manual labor in heavy/highway construction projects
• Promote and adhere to the company’s safety program.
• Signal operators of construction equipment to facilitate alignment and movement of materials
• Dig ditches or trenches, backfill excavations, or compact and level earth
• Supervise and train crew members
• Tends pumps, compressors, or generators
• Load, unload, or distribute materials, machinery, or tools to and from designated locations
• Knowledge of utilizing power tools: Bolts, nails, aligns, and block up under forms.
• Coordinate with others including subcontractors, trucking and plant managers.
• Use picks, shovels, and rakes to level earth or asphalt to rough and fine grade specifications/elevations
• May be called upon to operate a variety of power and hand tools: air hammers, earth tampers, cement mixers, mechanical hoists, surveying, measuring and other equipment
• Measure, mark, or record openings or distances as part of site preparation
• Sawing lumber, dismantling forms, removing projections from concrete, and mounting pipe hangers.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to work nights and weekends when necessary
• Display a professional and courteous attitude to co-workers, supervisors, and the general public
• Able to multi-task and working under short time constraints
• General knowledge of road construction processes.
• Ability to listen, follow directions, and have a willingness to continue to enhance skills
• Must have reliable transportation, and ability to travel to assigned worksites
• Ability to operate a variety of tools and equipment such as hand tools, power tools and motorized equipment.
• Demonstrate a safety first attitude. Strict adherence to safety requirements and procedures.
• Able to communicate effectively with jobsite supervisor and co-workers

Physical Demands:

• Excellent hand, eye and foot coordination.
• Constant physical effort, including extended standing for at least 8 hour shift
• Agility, balance, and manual dexterity, as well as arm-hand steadiness
• Regularly push/pull objects
• Able to hear and respond to oral instructions in a noisy environment.
• Climb intermittently
• Repetitively lift and carry at least 75 pounds on a regular basis, and sometimes heavier weight.
• Regularly reach above shoulder level
• Good vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus
• Regularly use hands and fingers to handle, feel or operate objects, tools or controls; reach and grasp.
• Intermittent sitting; continuous walking on construction site.
• Regularly twist, bend, stoop, kneel and crouch to perform duties

Education / Experience:

• Active Driver’s license
• Two (2) years’ experience grading experience
• High School diploma or general education degree (GED)
• Two (2) years’ experience working as a Grade Laborer, or equivalent experience.

Work Environment:

Regularly works in outside weather conditions, including extreme heat and humidity. Frequently works near moving mechanical parts, and is frequently exposed to wet or humid conditions and vibration. Handles various toxic products such as epoxies, grouts, sealers, paints and cleaners, with exposure to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and risks of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice

Jr. Davis Construction Company, Inc. is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and is actively recruiting women and minorities for all open positions.

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