Experienced Laborer

About the role

Landis C. Deck & Sons, a division of H&K Group, Inc., is seeking an experienced and motivated Laborer to join their team. The Laborer position entails working on construction projects, often transferring from one task to another whenever the situation requires.

Responsibilities

The Laborer will perform all work adhering to OSHA and H&K Safety policies. Specific duties include:

• Acquiring tools needed for daily operations
• Measuring distances from grade stakes, driving stakes, and stretching tight line
• Bolting, nailing, aligning, and blocking up under forms
• Signaling operators of construction equipment to facilitate alignment, movement, and adjustment of machinery to conform to grade specifications
• Leveling earth to fine grade specifications
• Mixing concrete and smoothing and finishing freshly poured cement or concrete
• Positioning, joining, aligning, and sealing pipe sections
• Erecting scaffolding, shoring, and braces

Paving duties include:

• Assisting with pre-run markings
• Using a paving lute to fine grade before roller man compacts
• Operating a vibratory plate as needed
• Shoveling asphalt as required
• Directing traffic around work area as required

Pipe duties include:

• Getting tools needed for daily operations
• Getting job set up for daily function such as setting up a pipe laser
• Operating a Wacker and jumping jack to perform backfilling duties
• Using cut saws to make pipe proper length
• Prepping pipe for connection before pipe gets lowered
• Shooting grades and checking grades using laser or conventional methods
• Performing connection of pipe work
• Checking for proper pipe slope
• Prepping structures for installation

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required and work environment for this role.

• One month of related experience and/or training
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Mathematical skills including ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs
• Ability to understand and carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions
• Problem solving
• Ability to fit test & utilize appropriate PPE as needed
• Ability to meet physical requirements (movement, lifting, as relevant to job)

Preferred skills, education, and experience include:

• Experience working in heavy civil construction, road construction, or quarries
• OSHA or other relevant safety certifications

Physical Demands

The Laborer will be frequently required to:

• Use hands and arms to finger, handle, reach, and feel
• Talk and hear
• Stand, walk, and climb
• Lift and/or move up to 50 pounds

The Laborer will be occasionally required to:

• Stoop, kneel, balance, crouch, or crawl

Specific vision requirements include:

• Distance
• Depth perception
• Ability to adjust focus

Work Environment

The Laborer will be regularly exposed to outside weather conditions and frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts. The Laborer will be occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, and the noise level is usually moderate.

Benefits

H&K offers 100% Company-paid Health Benefits, a 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan, tuition reimbursement programs, and additional training opportunities.

Pay

The hourly wage for this position is $18-30.