Construction Laborer - KCMO

McCownGordon Construction•Kansas City, MO

5d•Onsite

About The Position

People love to work here, plain and simple. It’s easy to love your job when you’re surrounded by driven, passionate leaders. We show up every day and give it our all; not because we have to, but because we want to. This role works on construction projects performing general laborer tasks such as demolition, loading/unloading, digging, and clean-up to aid daily operations at a construction site. The duties and responsibilities of a laborer are geared toward maintaining a clean, safe, and efficient construction site while supporting the overall project.

Requirements

Familiarity with field concepts, practices, and procedures.
Ability to perform construction activities, including usage of various power tools and small machinery.
Good interpersonal skills and team spirit.
Ability to working safely on projects.
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, procedure manuals.
Ability to solve practical problems.
Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
Ability to pass background check, drug screen, physical capacity profile, and E-Verify.
Reliable transportation method to get to and from work.

Nice To Haves

OSHA 10-hour Certification
Applicable certifications, such as Lift Operation, Scaffold, etc.
First Aid/CPR Trained

Responsibilities

Maintains all safety standards.
Moves, secures, loads, and unloads construction materials.
Material storage, handling, and management.
Final clean of project prior to owner turnover.
Demos existing construction to make way for new construction.
Pumps water and snow removal following weather events on construction site.
Installs and maintains temporary weather precaution measures.
Performs some specialized tasks which may require on the job training or certification for, scaffold, skid steers, street sweepers and forklifts.
Cleans and prepares construction site to eliminate possible hazards.
Controls traffic in and around work zones.
Operates hand and power tools, as needed.
Operates and tends to small machinery, as needed.
Identifies and reports or corrects potential hazards associated with task assignments to maintain a safe work area.
Loads and unloads materials up to 100 pounds.