Laborer

Laborer Position

The Structures Division of H&K Group, Inc. is currently seeking an experienced and motivated Laborer to become a part of our team. This position supports bridge and related structural heavy civil and highway construction projects throughout Northeast PA and the Lehigh Valley.

Responsibilities

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.
• Signals operators of construction equipment to facilitate alignment, movement, and adjustment of machinery to conform to grade specifications.
• 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, direct 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

Qualifications

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
• Occasionally required to stoop, kneel, balance, crouch, or crawl
• Specific vision requirements include distance, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus

Work Environment:

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