Carpenter

Kokosing • Chesapeake, VA

40d • Onsite

About The Position

Kokosing is seeking Carpenters for Heavy Highway – Roadway/Bridge projects in the Tidewater area of Virginia (Chesapeake/Norfolk/Newport News). The role involves constructing, erecting, and repairing structures, with a preference for experience in form work for bridges and structures. The company is one of America's 50 largest General Contractors with over 75 years of experience in heavy civil/industrial construction.

Requirements

• Must have own hand tools
• Carpenter Training Program or equivalent, or experience in bridge work, i.e. bridge form work
• Read blueprints
• Read rule
• Regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear
• Frequently work or walk on uneven ground
• Required to wear steel toed boots at all times
• Occasionally required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
• Regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus

Nice To Haves

• Preferred experience with form work for bridges/structures

Responsibilities

• Must be able to work while tied off to fall protection
• Skilled in use of necessary hand and power tools
• Must be able to work with level
• Studies and understands blueprints, sketches, or bridge plans for information pertaining to type of material required
• Selects specified type of lumber or other materials
• Prepares layout
• Measures boards, timbers, or plywood, and marks cutting lines on materials
• Shapes materials to prescribed measurements
• Nails cleats (braces) across boards to construct concrete-supporting forms
• Braces forms in place with timbers, tie rods, and anchor bolts, for use in building concrete piers, footing, and walls
• Assembles cut and shaped materials and fastens them together with nails, dowel pins, or glue
• Sets expansion dams
• Assemble or run overhang modules or stick built overhangs
• Climb wingwalls, retaining walls
• Assemble wood deck forms
• Constructs forms and chutes for pouring concrete
• Assists in pouring and finishing of concrete
• Erects scaffolding and ladders for assembling structures above ground level

Benefits

• medical
• life
• disability insurance
• paid time off
• 401K plan

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed