Job description

Job Title: Landscaping Laborer
Craft: Service
Reports to: Foreman
Exempt Status: Non-Exempt (Hourly)

Position Objective/Description:
Performs a variety of manual construction tasks involving roads, highways, and heavy construction projects under the direction of a crew foreman.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Performs a variety of tasks involving strenuous manual labor in heavy/highway construction projects
Work site set up, maintenance, and cleanup, to include scaffolding construction and dismantling, barricade locating, and equipment locating.
Load, unload, or distribute materials, machinery, or tools to and from designated locations
Place, move and dismantle traffic management devices
Dig ditches or trenches, backfill excavations, or compact and level earth; prepare trench bottom
Use picks, shovels, and rakes to level earth or asphalt to grade specifications
Position or dismantle forms for pouring concrete, using saws, hammers, nails or bolts.
Tends pumps, compressors, or generators
Signal operators of construction equipment to facilitate alignment and movement of materials
Measure, mark, or record openings or distances as part of site preparation
Operate a variety of power and hand tools: air hammers, earth tampers, cement mixers, mechanical hoists, surveying, measuring and other equipment
Maintain clean work area by disposing of trash and debris properly.
Perform daily maintenance and safety checks of equipment.
Promote and adhere to the company’s safety program.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Able to operate a variety of tools/equipment such as hand tools and power tools
Able to listen, follow directions, and have a willingness to continue to enhance skills
Able to communicate effectively with jobsite supervisor and co-workers
General knowledge of road construction processes.
Demonstrate a safety-first attitude. Strict adherence to safety requirements and procedures.
Display a professional and courteous attitude to co-workers, supervisors, and the general public.
Ability to work nights and weekends when necessary
Must have reliable transportation, and ability to travel to assigned worksites

Physical Demands:

Constant physical effort, including extended standing for at least 8-hour shift
Intermittent sitting; continuous walking on construction site.
Climb intermittently
Regularly twist, bend, stoop, kneel, push/pull and crouch to perform duties
Regularly reach above shoulder level
Repetitively lift and carry at least 75 pounds on a regular basis, and sometimes heavier weight.
Agility, balance, and manual dexterity, as well as arm-hand steadiness
Able to hear and respond to oral instructions in a noisy environment.
Regularly use hands and fingers to handle, feel or operate objects, tools, or controls; reach and grasp.
Excellent hand, eye, and foot coordination.
Good vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus

Education / Experience:

High School diploma or general education degree (GED)
One (1) year experience working as general laborer, or equivalent experience.
Active Driver’s license

Work Environment:
Regularly works in outside weather conditions, including extreme heat and humidity. Frequently works near heavy equipment and moving mechanical parts and is frequently exposed to wet or humid conditions and vibration. Work may involve exposure to a variety of substances found on construction site such as oil, grease, gasoline, concrete and diesel fuel. Periodically exposed to fumes, lubricants, airborne particles and dust. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.

Notes: This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time to meet business needs. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbents will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at will” relationship.

Jr. Davis Construction Company, Inc. is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and is actively recruiting women and minorities for all open positions.

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