Pile Driver

Kokosing • Colonial Heights, VA

1d • $26 - $32 • 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 business 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 successfully attracted qualified technical personnel by offering challenges, quality, and attractive rewards. With over $2.8 billion in annual sales and a commitment to its workforce, Kokosing is a winning team. This role involves operating pile drivers to drive pilings for retaining walls, bulkheads, and foundations of structures like bridges and piers.

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

Responsibilities

• 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