Scaffolding Journeyman

Kiewit • Vicksburg, MS

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Perform work involving the erection and dismantling of scaffolding, operation of heavy equipment, rigging equipment loads, and completion of various construction projects. The role involves reading plans and specifications, preparing materials, constructing and dismantling scaffolds, estimating work needs, and inspecting subordinate work for compliance.

Requirements

• May require a high school diploma or equivalent and previous years of experience in the field or a related area.
• Strong working knowledge, skills, and abilities for the position.
• Ability to understand, follow, and transmit written and oral instructions and communicate effectively with management and supervision.
• Proficiency in the safe and efficient use of electrical, hand, power, layout, and measurement tools.
• Must have the required tools.
• Ability to pass pre-access drug and alcohol testing, a fit-for-duty medical evaluation, and a background check.
• Ability to constantly move about a construction or industrial site and stand, walk, sit, reach, stoop, kneel, crouch, and/or crawl.
• Ability to work in changing outdoor weather conditions and in noisy, dusty, confined, cluttered, and uneven environments.
• Ability to work irregular hours, weekends, overtime, and holidays as required.
• Ability to use ladders, mechanical platforms, manlifts, or scaffolds to access work areas, potentially exceeding 200 feet, and to climb and maintain balance on formwork, steel formwork, stairs, ladders, and scaffolds.
• Ability to move items weighing up to 50 pounds across a construction or industrial site.

Responsibilities

• Read blueprints and specifications to determine the scope of work, including locations, quantities, and sizes of required materials.
• Identify required tools and measure, mark, and cut wooden or metallic materials to specifications.
• Erect and disassemble scaffolding for buildings and other structures, and install ladders, handrails, walkways, platforms, and gangways.
• Construct, reinforce, and dismantle pre-constructed scaffolds.
• Build wooden scaffolds and auxiliary items.
• Perform rigging of equipment loads.
• Estimate sizes, distances, quantities, time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform work activities.
• Inspect subordinate work for compliance with contract plans and specifications, identify deficiencies, explain them, and take corrective action.
• Observe and comply with safety and project rules, and perform other duties as required.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED