Construction Laborer- Landscape- Union

About the role

McGuire and Hester is a comprehensive sitework construction company with over 100 years of experience in Northern California. We provide a wide range of services including pipeline, grading, paving, concrete, landscape, and mechanical work.

Responsibilities

• Perform tasks involving physical labor at building, highway, and heavy construction projects, tunnel and shaft excavations, and demolition sites.
• Operate hand and power tools such as air hammers, earth tampers, cement mixers, small mechanical hoists, surveying and measuring equipment, and a variety of other equipment.
• Clean and prepare sites, dig trenches, set braces to support sides of excavation, erect scaffolding, clean up rubble and debris, and remove asbestos, lead, and other hazardous waste materials.
• Communicate with foremen, project superintendents, and general superintendents.

Requirements

• Must be a member of the applicable union or willing and eligible to join the union as a condition of employment.
• Ability to work in a quick-paced, safety-oriented team environment.
• Willingness to follow detailed instructions from leadership.
• Experience working with hand and/or power tools to perform a range of landscape or irrigation duties.
• Ability to dig and clean trenches for irrigation and drainage systems.
• Install pipe, valves, control wire, sprinklers, and drip irrigation systems.
• Place and prepare soil with amendments and fertilizers.
• Rake and fine grade prepared planting soil.
• Plant trees and shrubs including tree staking and guying.
• Sod lawn preparation and installation.
• Able to safely work near and around heavy construction equipment and in proximity to automobile traffic.
• Able to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, and carry objects up to 50 lbs of weight.
• Perform general physical activities that may include climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stopping, or kneeling.
• Monitor and review information from materials, events, or the environment to detect or assess problems.
• Maintain a safety-first culture and actively participate in the "Safety Buck" program.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED preferred.
• Understanding of English as associated with the jobsite safety and the typical duties required of this position.
• Basic understanding of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
• Apply common sense understanding to carry out simple one or two step instructions.
• Deal with standardized situations with only occasional or no variables.
• No computer skills required.
• Ability to solve conflict, create team atmosphere, be dependable, and demonstrate accuracy and thoroughness.

Skills

• Physical labor skills.
• Hand and power tool operation.
• Site preparation and cleanup.
• Construction site communication.
• Landscape and irrigation duties.
• Heavy equipment operation.
• Safe work practices.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

$35 - $40, based on skills, experience, and knowledge. Will be determined by the union dispatch.

Schedule

Not specified.