Job Details
Duties/Responsibilities:
General duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Operate asphalt screed to efficiently meet production goals and project specifications
- Communicate actions with crew members using hand or audio signals
- Ensure that safety standards are met
- Create level surfaces, grade slopes to specifications, remove material and thoroughly fill voids using plans and/or a surveyor as guidance
- Maintain equipment in proper operating condition by performing simple preventive maintenance tasks and/or making minor repairs
- Inspects equipment prior to use to ensure that it is in proper operating condition
- Mentor and teach colleagues with less experience
- Perform general labor and other construction related duties as required
- Attend trainings and safety meetings
- Observe construction sites for obstacles that may compromise job safety and/or production
- Follow site grading and operations plans, read grade stakes and operate in a fine grade environment.
- Demonstrates continuous effort to improve operations, decrease turnaround times, streamline work processes, and work cooperatively and jointly to provide quality seamless customer service.
- Store and clean machinery at its designated location and note any deficiencies
Required Skills & Abilities:- In-depth knowledge of construction procedures, OSHA guidelines, and construction equipment, including safe operating practices and signs of maintenance issues
- Able to read drawings, plans and blueprints
- Familiar with staking and checking grade
- Possesses strong math and analytical skills
- Detail-oriented with the ability to process information quickly and accurately
- Takes initiative and prioritizes tasks: organizational, problem-prevention and problem-solving skills
- Dependable and able to work independently with little supervision as well as with a team of individuals
- Basic mechanical skills
- Must know the consistency of material and understand compaction techniques
- Must be 18 years of age or older
- Must have reliable transportation with the ability to travel
- Must have the ability to work extended hours as required by the workload
- Must have a valid driver's license with a clean driving record
Physical Demands and Work Environment:- Able to work outdoors in all weather conditions and in all types of terrain
- Able to meet all physical requirements
- Able to work around loud noises and can tolerate being exposed to odors, gasses, dust, etc.
- Able to work in extreme temperatures, in confined spaces, high places, and in excavated areas
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)