High Burner/Torch Laborer

Position Summary

Performs tasks involving physical labor at construction project sites. Ensures proper safety and incident reporting procedures are followed.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Perform a variety of tasks involving strenuous manual labor at construction project sites.
• Ensure that proper safety and incident reporting procedures are followed.
• Bring any concerns to the attention of the project Foreman, Superintendent, General Superintendent, Safety Director or Management.
• Load and unload trucks and haul and hoist materials.
• Maintain a clean job site at all times.
• Pick up all material, tools, and small equipment and secure job site each day in order to eliminate potential hazards.
• Material handling and storage.
• Avoidance of underground and overhead utilities during excavation.
• Review trenching requirements with Superintendent and ensure any required protection is available.
• Keep project foreman, superintendent, or general superintendent informed of known actions, written or verbal, which may affect the ability to successfully perform tasks at construction project sites or adversely affect Company operations.
• Will be working at elevated heights via lifts, platforms, scaffolding, etc. Must be okay with heights.
• Other projects or duties as assigned by management.

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Minimum of 6 months demo experience.
• Aerial boom lift training and ability to provide documentation or references.
• Minimum of 1 year of heavy industrial torch experience.
• Crane signaling and rigging certifications are required.
• Knowledge and ability to work with equipment, materials, and supplies found in construction work.
• Ability to follow proper use and safety guidelines at all times.
• OSHA 10, First Aid/CPR, and demonstrated knowledge of applicable safety precautions and procedures.
• Ability to view and understand Veit’s safety training video.
• Willingness and ability to perform manual work.
• Good communication skills both oral and written when working with all levels of management and employees, external vendors and other business associates.
• Ability to understand, follow and transmit written and oral instructions.
• Ability to meet attendance schedule with dependability and consistency as required by management and/or project requirements.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• 3 years of heavy industrial torch experience preferred.
• 3 years of aerial lift experience preferred.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by any employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to lift and/or move up to 100 pounds and perform strenuous physical labor under adverse field conditions. Often required to sit, stand, walk, bend knees, stretch arms, talk and hear. Occasionally required to stoop, or kneel.

Work Environment

Employee is exposed to environmental conditions, working near machines and loud noises associated with construction sites. Exposed to variable heights. Exposed to variable weather conditions including rain, snow, wind, cold and heat.

Additional Job Description

The base compensation range for this role is union scale or higher. For Union and Prevailing Wage roles, hourly rate and benefits may vary due to Collective Bargaining Agreements and/or local governing authority.