Skilled Laborer

Kokosing Industrial • Annapolis Junction, MD

7d • Onsite

About The Position

Kokosing is seeking Skilled Laborers to work on various construction projects. This role involves transferring between tasks based on project demands, requiring a worker with diverse experience and the ability to work with or without close supervision. The company is a large general contractor with a broad spectrum of clients in both private and public sectors, specializing in heavy civil/industrial construction including highways, bridges, underground utilities, water/wastewater facilities, and marine construction. Kokosing has a long history of attracting qualified personnel by offering challenges, quality, and rewards.

Requirements

• Minimum one-year related experience and/or training.
• Read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memo.
• Add and subtract two-digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10’s and 100’.
• Apply common sense understanding to carry out simple one– or two–step instructions.
• Deal with standardized situations with only occasional or no variables.
• Follow directions.
• Required to stand; walk; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms.
• Lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.
• Close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Nice To Haves

• Preferred experience with structural steel, bridge/utility/road work.

Responsibilities

• Drive work trucks as needed.
• Perform maintenance of traffic and flagging.
• Perform job site housekeeping duties.
• Assist with measuring distances from grade stakes, driving stakes, and stretching tight lines.
• Bolt, nail, align, and block up forms.
• Signal operators of construction equipment to facilitate alignment, movement, and adjustment of machinery to conform to grade specifications.
• Assist with leveling earth to fine grade specifications.
• Assist with mixing concrete.
• Assist with smoothing and finishing freshly poured cement, mortar, or concrete.
• Assist with positioning, joining, aligning, and sealing pipe sections.
• Assist with erecting scaffolding, shoring, and braces.
• Mop, brush, or spread paint or bituminous compounds over surfaces for protection.
• Spray materials such as water, sand, steam, vinyl, paint, or stucco through hose to clean, coat, or seal surfaces.
• Apply caulking compounds by hand or with a caulking gun to seal crevices.
• Assist with demolishing structures, sawing lumber, dismantling forms, removing projections from concrete, mounting pipe hangers, and cutting and attaching insulating materials.
• Handle basic hand tools, such as shovel, pick, broom, hammer, saw, paint brushes, etc.
• Perform light or heavy handling.
• Perform job site housekeeping.
• Perform flagging.
• Erect construction signs, cones, etc.

Benefits

• medical insurance
• life insurance
• disability insurance
• paid time off
• 401K plan

What This Job Offers

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