Pile Driver

Kokosing • Colonial Heights, VA

2d • $26 - $30 • Onsite

About The Position

Kokosing is one of America's 50 largest General Contractors, servicing a broad spectrum of clients in both private and public sectors. Their services include heavy civil/industrial construction such as highways, bridges, underground utilities, water/wastewater facilities, and marine construction. For over 75 years, Kokosing has attracted qualified technical personnel by offering challenges, quality, and rewards. With over $2.8 billion in annual sales and a commitment to its workforce, Kokosing is a leading company in the construction industry. This role is for experienced Pile Drivers to work in the Richmond, VA area.

Requirements

• Experience in marine pile driving operations including Concrete pile, H-pile, and Pipe pile.
• Understand English
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as area, read rule, calculate measurements.
• Ability to apply concepts of geometry.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standard situations.
• Regularly required to stand; use hand to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear.
• Frequently required to walk, climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Must regularly work or walk on uneven ground.
• Must occasionally lift/move up to 100 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

Responsibilities

• Operates pile drivers mounted on skids, barges, crawler treads, or cranes to drive pilings for retaining walls, bulkheads, and foundations of structures such as bridges and piers.
• Skilled in use of necessary hand and power tools.
• Conducts pre-operational checks on equipment to ensure proper functioning.
• Cleans, lubricates, and refills equipment.
• Drives pilings to provide support for structures such as bridges, using heavy equipment with a pile driver head.
• Moves hand and foot levers of hoisting equipment to position piling leads, hoist piling into leads, and position hammers over pilings.
• Moves levers and turns valves to activate power hammers, or to raise and lower drop hammers that drive pile to required depths.

What This Job Offers

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