Skilled Laborer

Kokosing•Staunton, VA

6d•$20 - $26•Onsite

About The Position

Kokosing is seeking Skilled Laborers for immediate openings in Staunton, VA. This role involves working on various construction projects, requiring the ability to adapt to different tasks and work with varying degrees of 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. With over 75 years of experience and significant annual sales, Kokosing aims to attract qualified personnel by offering challenges, quality work, and attractive 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
Handle basic hand tools, such as shovel, pick, broom, hammer, saw, paint brushes, etc.
Light or heavy handling
Flagging
Erect construction signs, cones, etc.
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

Ability to drive work trucks as needed.
Perform maintenance of traffic and flagging.
Perform job site housekeeping duties.
Assist with measuring distances from grade stakes, drive stakes, and stretches tight line.
Bolt, nail, align, and block up under 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 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.