Grade Checker Jobs

Job Title: (Grade Checker)

Craft: Grade

Reports to: Foreman

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

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

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

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

Physical Demands:

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