Laborer Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Three years (6,000 hours) of journey-level experience as a general laborer in the construction field. Completion of a California Division of Apprenticeship Standards (DAS)- or U.S. Department of Labor (DOL)-approved apprentice construction laborer program may substitute for the required experience.
• Possess and maintain a valid Class C California driver license; it must be presented at appointment.
• Be insurable under the Port’s automobile liability insurance and maintain insurability during employment.
• Ability to lift and handle objects weighing up to 90 pounds, carry them at least 50 feet, and balance 10-foot pieces of lumber.
• Physical strength, endurance, and dexterity to perform sustained physical work, including under adverse weather and disagreeable conditions.
• Ability to work from a boat, near or over water, and at heights.
• Ability to enter confined spaces and wear a respirator.
• Ability to work a schedule that may include night, weekend, or alternative shifts based on seniority-based shift bidding.
• Ability to work weekend and emergency overtime as needed.

Nice To Haves

• Extensive experience using construction equipment such as compressors, jackhammers, tampers, pressure washers, and sidewalk sweepers.
• Ability to work at heights of up to 200 feet.
• Ability to work from a boat and around or over water.
• Proficiency in operating power-washing equipment and performing cleaning tasks, including cleaning challenging materials such as feces.
• A history of reliability and punctuality and ability to adhere to a set work schedule.
• Flexibility and adaptability when assignments, tasks, and schedules change.

Responsibilities

• Excavate trenches for water and sewer lines, underground utility repairs, and electrical conduits; backfill and compact excavations; and pothole transmission mains and service piping.
• Clear culverts, stake erosion-control fabric, and cement or rip-rap areas upstream and downstream of culverts.
• Stabilize embankments by building wet walls and drywalls alongside roadways and waterways.
• Clear obstacles before machine mowing.
• Serve as a flag operator and set up traffic barricades, lights, and other worksite barriers.
• Clear and chip vegetation, brush, and limbs; clear firebreaks, roads, ditches, paths, rights-of-way, and areas around structures; cut access routes; remove small trees; and grind stumps.
• Install and maintain chain-link, barbed-wire, and hog-wire fencing, and cement gate and fence posts.
• Load and unload materials, supplies, furniture, and equipment by hand or with booms, power tailgates, forklifts, and other moving equipment.
• Remove and clean up debris from construction, maintenance, wrecking, and repair work using tools such as brooms, shovels, and wheelbarrows.
• Work in confined spaces to assist with cleaning and flushing catch basins, septic tanks, or sewage treatment plants using shovels, hoses, and pumps.
• Operate and maintain pneumatic, electrical, mechanical, and hand tools and equipment to assist craft workers.
• Mix and prepare concrete and assist with concrete and asphalt applications to repair roads and sidewalks.
• Sweep and scrub streets, sidewalks, and plazas; apply disinfectants, degreasers, and herbicides; and use high-pressure water hoses.
• Pick up litter, clean illegal dumping sites and encampments, clean spills and accident sites, and remove litter and signs from poles and benches.
• Manage a tool room by distributing tools and tracking inventory.
• Complete work orders, daily work or field reports, and accident report forms.
• Drive a truck and/or car to worksites and follow routes or maps.
• Prepare surfaces for painting and remove graffiti using computerized color-matching programs, soda blasters, and/or steam cleaners.
• Use radio communication systems and other communication devices.
• Check email and other electronic communications, and enter and submit timesheets through the employee portal.
• Perform other duties as assigned.