Asphalt Paver Screed Operator - Columbia, SC

Colas USA; Columbia (SC); On-site; USD 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A forward-thinking company is seeking an Asphalt Paver Screed Operator to join their team in Columbia, SC. The ideal candidate will focus on safety and excellence while adjusting screed heights to ensure quality asphalt paving. This role involves setting up equipment, leading a crew, and maintaining machinery. With a commitment to competitive pay and comprehensive benefits, this innovative firm offers an opportunity to grow within the infrastructure sector. Join a team that prioritizes safety, ethics, and performance while contributing to essential construction projects in the Southeast and Midwest.

Benefits

Paid Holidays

Vacation

Life Insurance

Health Plan Options

401(k) with Company Match

Qualifications

• 6 months to 1 year of experience in construction.
• Knowledge of operating construction equipment safely.

Responsibilities

• Adjust screed height for proper asphalt depth and finish.
• Maintain and clean paver and screed equipment.

Skills

Leadership Skills

Construction Equipment Knowledge

Safety Awareness

Education

High School Diploma or Equivalent

Tools

Paver Screed

Job description

Company: REEVES PIEDMONT

Location: Columbia

Country: USA

Type of Contract: Regular / Permanent

Publication Date: Apr 15, 2025

Reeves Construction Company, the Colas USA subsidiary that operates throughout the states North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Missouri and Arkansas has been a key partner in the infrastructure growth of the Southeast and Midwest since the company’s founding in 1923. Reeves is a complete heavy civil highway and site development construction company dedicated to meet the specific needs of the roadway, airport, bridge, and military market. Reeves prides itself for its high company standards of safety, ethics, and performance. To learn more about Reeves visit www.reevescc.com.

Throughout Colas USA, we provide competitive pay, outstanding benefits, career advancement opportunities, professional education, and extensive training for every employee. We pride ourselves on upholding the highest standards of safety, environmental conservation, and ethical conduct as we strive to grow our infrastructure products and services through empowering and developing our people, fostering innovation, utilizing new technology, and maximizing vertical integration at all levels of the company’s value chain. To learn more about the Colas USA Family of Companies, please visit www.colasusa.com.

Mission

Reeves Construction Company is currently seeking an individual for the position of Asphalt Paver Screed Operator based out of Columbia, SC. The successful candidate for this role will have an uncompromising focus on safety excellence. Asphalt Paver Screed Operator's primary function is to adjust the screed height on the paving machine to ensure proper depth, grade and finish. The Asphalt Paver Screed Operator is also responsible for ensuring the consistency of the asphalt mat and the overall ride quality of the finished pavement.

Main Responsibilities

• Needs to have the ability to correctly set up paver screed, lay a uniform thickness.
• An accurate and working knowledge of the paver screed (ex. correct speed, check on material coming out of truck, straight lines)
• The ability to take a leadership role on the crew
• The willingness and ability to keep paver and screed maintained and clean
• The willingness to work nights and weekends
• The ability to operate equipment in a safe and consistent manner

Qualifications

• 6 months to 1 year of experience
• Experience working in and around construction equipment
• Driving License (preferred)

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop; kneel; crouch or walk; talk or hear, and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 60 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. Employee must have 20/40 vision, either naturally or with corrective lenses. Hearing should be excellent or corrected by audio device.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential function of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts, outside weather conditions, and vibration. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and toxic or caustic chemicals. The noise level in the work environment is usually very loud.

Benefits and Compensation

Competitive pay & comprehensive benefits include paid holidays, vacation, life insurance, accidental death & dismemberment insurance, group health plan options (incl. medical, dental & vision, HSA, FSA), short term disability benefits & 401(k)/401(k) Roth w/company match.

**This Organization Participates in E-Verify**
**Drug-Free Workplace**

Colas Inc. and its subsidiaries are an Equal Opportunity Employer.