Barrier Concrete Finisher - INF

Kiewit-Corporation-cba042a0; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Kiewit is seeking a Barrier Concrete Finisher Journeyman for the Southeast Connector Project in Fort Worth, TX. The role requires several years of concrete finishing experience, including slipformed barrier work, and reading project plans to ensure correct elevation and grade for placement.

The job involves coordinating with paving, form-setting, and labor crews, maintaining barrier profiles, and working safely around a moving slipform operation on a major highway project.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of concrete finishing experience; carpentry experience preferred.
• Prior experience finishing slipformed concrete barrier.
• Ability to finish faces and tops, repair surface defects, and maintain the required barrier profile.
• Ability to work safely alongside a moving slipform operation and keep pace with production.
• Experience placing and finishing concrete on highway, roadway, or other heavy civil construction projects.
• Skilled in concrete paving and finishing work, including bridge decks, roadway slabs, flatwork, or concrete barriers.
• Familiarity with concrete finishing tools and equipment, and the ability to coordinate work with paving, form-setting, and labor crews.
• Ability to read and follow project plans, elevations, and grade information for concrete placement and finishing.
• All offers are contingent on your ability to pass a Drug and Alcohol test.

Skills

Concrete finishing

Carpentry experience

Plan interpretation

Team coordination

Tools

Concrete finishing tools

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Kiewit is looking for aBarrier Concrete Finisher Journeymanfor the Southeast Connector Project located in Fort Worth, TX

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years of concrete finishing experience; carpentry experience preferred
• Prior experience finishing slipformed concrete barrier.
• Ability to finish faces and tops, repair surface defects, and maintain the required barrier profile.
• Ability to work safely alongside a moving slipform operation and keep pace with production.
• Experience placing and finishing concrete on highway, roadway, or other heavy civil construction projects
• Skilled in concrete paving and finishing work, including bridge decks, roadway slabs, flatwork, or concrete barriers
• Familiarity with concrete finishing tools and equipment, and the ability to coordinate work with paving, form-setting, and labor crews
• Ability to read and follow project plans, elevations, and grade information for concrete placement and finishing
• All offers are contingent on your ability to pass a Drug and Alcohol test

Shift Information

• Willing and able to work either day or night shifts based on project needs
• Additional overtime may be required

• The person in this position needs to constantly move about a construction/industrial site, so should be able to stand, walk, sit, reach, stoop, kneel, crouch, and/or crawl
• Constantly works in a construction environment and will be exposed to changing outdoor weather conditions
• Work irregular hours, weekends, overtime and holidays as required
• May be required to use ladders/mechanical platforms/manlifts/scaffold to access required equipment/work areas (may exceed 200 feet), so must be able to climb and maintain balance on formwork, steel formwork, stairs, ladders and scaffolds
• Move and work in and around confined and cluttered places, and uneven surfaces
• Must be able to complete tasks in a noisy and dusty environment
• May be required/able to move items weighing up to 50 pounds across construction/industrial site
• Must have required tools
• May require DL
• Observe and comply with all safety and project rules, perform other duties as required
• Ability to pass pre-access drug and alcohol testing

Project Information

The Southeast Connector project is an interstate widening and reconstruction project designed to alleviate traffic congestion and improve safety. Major construction on the connector is slated for early 2023, with completion planned for 2027.

About Kiewit

Kiewit is one of North America’s largest and most respected construction and engineering organizations. With its roots dating back to 1884, the employee-owned organization operates through a network of subsidiaries in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Kiewit offers construction and engineering services in a variety of markets including transportation; oil, gas and chemical; power; building; water; industrial; and mining. Kiewit had 2022 revenues of $13.7 billion and employs 25,700 staff and craft employees.

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Nearest Major Market: Fort Worth
Nearest Secondary Market: Dallas