Scaffold Builder (Augusta, GA)- Austin Industrial (NUTR)

Austin Industries; Augusta (GA); On-site; USD 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Scaffold Builder to join their team. This full-time role involves constructing and maintaining scaffolding, ensuring safety protocols are followed, and performing inspections. The ideal candidate will have 2-3 years of experience in scaffold building and must be physically capable of performing various tasks at heights. The company offers excellent benefits, including medical and dental insurance, and is proud to be a 100% employee-owned organization. If you are passionate about safety and construction, this is a fantastic opportunity to grow your career in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

401K Matching Plan

Qualifications

• 2-3 years of experience as a Journeyman Scaffold Builder required.
• Must pass drug screen and background check as a condition of employment.

Responsibilities

• Construct, maintain, and dismantle scaffolding and temporary structures.
• Inspect job sites for safety hazards and ensure compliance with regulations.
• Transport and erect scaffolding materials as needed.

Skills

Scaffold Building

Safety Inspection

Communication Skills

Mobility and Physical Stamina

Education

No minimum education requirements

Tools

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

Job description

Austin Industrial delivers premier maintenance, construction, and soft craft services to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries. Our team of 4,000 employee-owners, equipped with innovative technology and optimized procedures, helps owners optimize safety, productivity, profit margins, and cost-efficiency.

Scaffold Builder

The Scaffold Builder role gives you the opportunity to work in the construction, assembly, maintenance, and dismantling of tubular scaffolding or other temporary structures. Other duties may be assigned.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Determines type of scaffold needed.
• Inspects job site and all scaffold material for defects and safety hazards.
• Effectively communicates safety hazards and mitigates avoidable hazards prior to construction of scaffolding.
• Transports tubular scaffold or other structural material and erects the scaffold to the dimensions required.
• Hoists scaffolding materials upward in order to erect temporary structure.
• Properly secures and levels locking sections of scaffolding material.
• Properly secures scaffold to the permanent structure for added stability.
• Adheres to all OSHA, site specific and Austin Industrial requirements for the erecting and navigation of the scaffolding.
• Performs final inspection of completed scaffolding.
• Dismantles scaffolding when it has been properly communicated to do so.
• Inspects and properly stows scaffolding material after dismantling.
• Must be able to perform work wearing personal protective equipment, including but not limited to rain gear, chemical protective clothing, supplied air and air purifying respirators, safety harness, sand blast hoods, fire resistant coveralls, hard hat, ear plugs, and safety glasses.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to have full range of mobility in upper and lower body, able to reach overhead, able to work in various positions, including, but not limited to, stooping, standing, bending over, sitting, kneeling, squatting; use hands to handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; work at heights; balance for extended periods of time.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications Required for this Position:

Education: No minimum education requirements.

Experience: 2-3 years of experience as a Journeyman Scaffold Builder; required.

Must pass drug screen and background check, as condition of employment.

This is a full-time maintenance position working 40 hours a week. There is no per diem and no relocation funding.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States. Austin is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.

We offer excellent benefits including medical, dental, life and disability insurance, and a matching 401K plan. We are proud to be a 100% Employee-Owned Company (ESOP)! To learn more about Austin, please go to https://www.austin-ind.com/our-company/who-we-are.

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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No Third-Party Inquiries Please

• This Company does not accept and will not consider unsolicited resumes, or any other unsolicited candidate information submitted to the Company or any of its employee-owners by staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters in response to a posted vacancy. The Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so (i.e., payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement).
• Any unsolicited resumes or candidate information submitted to this Company or any of its employee-owners becomes the property of the Company.

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