Pile Driver

Kokosing Industrial • Richmond, VA

11d • Onsite

About The Position

Kokosing is seeking experienced Pile Drivers for projects in Hopewell, VA and Baltimore, MD. The role involves operating pile drivers to drive pilings for retaining walls, bulkheads, and foundations of structures such as bridges and piers. Kokosing is a large general contractor with over 75 years of experience in heavy civil/industrial construction, including highways, bridges, underground utilities, water/wastewater facilities, and marine construction.

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.
• 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