Laborer

About the role

Maryland Division/HTI, a division of the H&K Group, Inc., located in Finksburg, MD, is currently seeking experienced and motivated Laborers to become a part of our team.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Performs all work adhering to OSHA and H&K Safety policies.
• Acquires tools needed for daily operations.
• Measures distances from grade stakes, drives stakes, and stretches tight line.
• Bolts, nails, aligns, and blocks up under forms.
• Levels earth to fine grade specifications.
• Mixes concrete. Smooths and finishes freshly poured cement or concrete.
• Positions, joins, aligns, and seals pipe sections.
• Erects scaffolding, shoring, and braces.
• Paving Duties:
  • Assists with pre-run markings.
  • Uses a paving lute to fine grade before roller man compacts.
  • Operates vibratory plate as needed.
  • Shovels asphalt as required.
  • Directs traffic around work area as required.
• Pipe Duties:
  • Gets tools needed for daily operations.
  • Gets job set up for daily function such as setting up a pipe laser.
  • Operates a Wacker and jumping jack to perform backfilling duties.
  • Uses cut saws to make pipe proper length.
  • Preps pipe for connection before pipe gets lowered.
  • Shoots grades and checks grades using laser or conventional methods.
  • Performs connection of pipe work.
  • Responsible for checking for proper pipe slope.
  • Preps structures for installation.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Skills, Education, And Experience

• 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

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

Physical Demands

• 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.
• Sometimes required to: stoop, kneel, balance, crouch, or crawl.

Work Environment

• Regularly exposed to outside weather conditions.
• Frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts.
• Occasionally exposed to fumes or airborn particles.
• Noise level is usually moderate.