Skilled Laborers

Kokosing (www.kokosing.biz) is one of America's 60 largest General Contractors and services a broad spectrum of clients in both the private and public business sectors. Kokosing's services include heavy civil/industrial construction such as highways, bridges, underground utilities, water/wastewater facilities, and marine construction. For 70 years, Kokosing has successfully attracted the most qualified technical personnel in the construction industry by offering visible challenges, superior quality, and attractive rewards. With over $1.5 billion in annual sales and a commitment to its workforce, Kokosing is the winning team.

Job Description:

We have immediate openings for Skilled Laborers in Dublin, VA (Blacksburg/Christiansburg/Radford area).

SUMMARY

Work on various Marine construction projects by transferring from one task to another where demands require worker with various experience and ability to work with or without close supervision.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assists with mooring vessels to wharves, tie up vessels to another vessel, or rig towing lines.
• Assists with loading and unloading material from barges and boats.
• Performs maintenance of traffic and flagging.
• Performs job site housekeeping duties.
• Assists with measuring distances from grade stakes, drive 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.
• Assists with leveling earth to fine grade specifications.
• Assists with mixing concrete.
• Assists with smoothing and finishing freshly poured cement, mortar, or concrete.
• Assists with positioning, joining, aligning, and sealing pipe sections.
• Assists with erecting scaffolding, shoring, and braces.
• Mops, brushes, or spreads paint or bituminous compounds over surfaces for protection.
• Sprays materials such as water, sand, steam, vinyl, paint, or stucco through hose to clean, coat, or seal surfaces.
• Applies caulking compounds by hand or with caulking gun to seal crevices.
• Assists with demolishing structures, saws lumber, dismantles forms, removes projections from concrete, mounts pipe hangers, and cuts and attaches insulating materials.
• Works in a safe and responsible manner at all times.

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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:

• Ability to follow directions
• Handle basic hand tools, such as shovel, pick, broom, hammer, saw, paint brushes, etc.
• Light or heavy handling
• Job site housekeeping
• Flagging
• Erect construction signs, cones, etc.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

Merchant Marine and Able-Bodied Seaman credentials preferred.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

Minimum six months related experience and/or training.

WORK ENVIRONMENT 

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing 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 exposed to moving mechanical parts and outside weather conditions.  The work environment is on barges, boats and floating equipment, and accessing the work site may require climbing from barges, boats and floating equipment when they are at different levels above the water. The employee is regularly exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, risk of electrical shock, and vibration.  The employee is occasionally exposed to high precarious places.  The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate, occasionally loud.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an 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.

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