Skilled Laborer

Kokosing • Colonial Heights, VA

7d • $18 - $25 • Onsite

About The Position

Kokosing has immediate openings for Skilled Laborers for their projects in the Richmond/Petersburg area. This role involves working on various construction projects, transferring between tasks as needed, and requires the ability to work with or without close supervision. The position may require working any shift, including nights and weekends.

Requirements

• Minimum one-year related experience and/or training.
• Proficient English reading and speaking skills.
• 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.
• Must pass Flagger Certification test to act as flagger.
• 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, drive stakes, and stretch tight lines.
• 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 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