Skilled Laborers

Kokosing Construction Company, Inc.; Maryland; On-site; USD 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Paid time off

401K plan

Job summary

Kokosing Construction Company, Inc. is seeking Skilled Laborers for immediate openings in Wallops Island, VA. The role involves working on construction projects, performing a variety of tasks from flagging and trucking to measuring, forming, and finishing concrete.

Must be able to stand, walk, and lift up to 100 pounds and pass a flagger certification. Ideal candidates have at least one year of related experience, prefer experience with bridges/utility work, and will work under supervision with

Qualifications

• Minimum one year of related experience.
• Preferred experience with structural steel, bridge/utility/road work.
• Must pass Flagger Certification test to act as flagger.

Responsibilities

• Drive work trucks as needed.
• Perform maintenance of traffic and flagging.
• Assist with measuring distances and staking.
• Assist with mixing and finishing concrete.
• Assist with positioning, joining, and sealing pipe sections.

Skills

Flagging

Hand tools

Lifting up to 100 lbs

Attention to detail

Read instructions

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Tools

Shovel

Hammer

Measuring tape

Job description

Company Overview

Kokosing (www.kokosing.biz) is one of America's 50 largest General Contractors and services a broad spectrum of clients in both the private and public business sectors. Kokosing's services include heavy civil/industrial construction such as highways, bridges, underground utilities, water/wastewater facilities, and marine construction. For over 75 years, Kokosing has successfully attracted the most qualified technical personnel in the construction industry by offering visible challenges, superior quality, and attractive rewards. With over $2.8 billion in annual sales and a commitment to its workforce, Kokosing is the winning team.

Job Description

We have immediate openings for Skilled Laborers in Wallops Island, VA. SUMMARY Work on various construction projects by transferring from one task to another where demands require worker with various experience and ability to work with or without close supervision.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Ability to drive work trucks as needed.
• Perform maintenance of traffic and flagging.
• Perform job site housekeeping duties.
• Assist with measuring distances from grade stakes, drive stakes, and stretches tight line.
• Bolt, nail, align, and block up under forms.
• Signal operators of construction equipment to facilitate alignment, movement, and adjustment of machinery to conform to grade specifications.
• Assist with leveling earth to fine grade specifications.
• Assist with mixing concrete.
• Assist with smoothing and finishing freshly poured cement, mortar, or concrete.
• Assist with positioning, joining, aligning, and sealing pipe sections.
• Assist with erecting scaffolding, shoring, and braces.
• Mop, brush, or spread paint or bituminous compounds over surfaces for protection.
• Spray materials such as water, sand, steam, vinyl, paint, or stucco through hose to clean, coat, or seal surfaces.
• Apply caulking compounds by hand or with caulking gun to seal crevices.
• Assist with demolishing structures, sawing lumber, dismantling forms, removing projections from concrete, mounting pipe hangers, and cutting and attaching insulating materials.

Education and/or Experience

Minimum one-year related experience and/or training. Preferred experience with structural steel, bridge/utility/road work

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memo
• Add and subtract two-digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10’s and 100’
• Apply common sense understanding to carry out simple one– or two–step instructions
• Deal with standardized situations with only occasional or no variables
• Follow directions
• Handle basic hand tools, such as shovel, pick, broom, hammer, saw, paint brushes, etc.
• Light or heavy handling
• Job site housekeeping
• Flagging
• Erect construction signs, cones, etc.
• Required to stand; walk; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
• Use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms
• Lift and/or move up to 100 pounds
• Close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

Must pass Flagger Certification test to act as flagger.

Benefits

• medical insurance
• life insurance
• disability insurance
• paid time off
• 401K plan

Kokosing is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action federal and state contractor.

The company does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected class.

Kokosing is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action federal and state contractor.

The company does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected class.

Kokosing (www.kokosing.biz) is one of America's 50 largest General Contractors and services a broad spectrum of clients in both the private and public business sectors. Kokosing's services include heavy civil/industrial construction such as highways, bridges, underground utilities, water/wastewater facilities, and marine construction. Since 1951, Kokosing has successfully attracted the most qualified technical personnel in the construction industry by offering visible challenges, superior quality, and attractive rewards. With over $2.8 billion in annual sales and a commitment to its workforce, Kokosing is the winning team.