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NWPX Infrastructure, Inc.; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 25,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

NWPX Infrastructure, Inc. in Salt Lake City, UT, is seeking a hands-on concrete production worker to produce a wide variety of precast products daily to established standards. You will set up steel forms, read blueprints, pour concrete, and operate forklifts and other equipment.

Responsibilities include reworking items, maintaining cleanliness, and supporting a safe, efficient team environment with consistent attendance and reliability.

Qualifications

• Must understand basic math, read a tape measure, and use various power tools.
• Past experience with hand tools, saws, air tools, grinders preferred but not required.
• High School diploma or GED is required or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Set up steel forms, cut and tie rebar/mesh, and pour concrete into molds.
• Read blueprints and CAD drawings to guide production.
• Rework and patch concrete products as needed to meet standards.
• Operate heavy equipment including forklifts and other machinery.
• Maintain general housekeeping and safety in the work area.
• Be a team player and assist colleagues as needed and requested.
• Maintain regular, reliable attendance to fulfill essential duties.

Skills

Basic math

Blueprint reading

Tape measure

Power tools

CAD drawings

Education

High School diploma or GED

Tools

CAD drawings

Concrete tools

Forklift operation

Job description

ABOUT THE JOB

To produce a wide variety of pre cast products daily to established standards and quality specifications

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Setting up steel forms including cutting and tying rebar/steel mesh caging and pouring concrete into molds
• Read blue prints and CAD drawings
• Rework and patch product
• Operating heavy duty industrial equipment including forklifts
• General housekeeping
• Be a team player and willing to help out as needed and requested
• Regular, reliable and predictable attendance is necessary in order to perform the essential functions of this position.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES

• Must understand basic math skills, read and apply tape measure, use of various power tools

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE

• Past experience working with hand tools, saws, air tools, grinders is preferred, not required
• Experience working with concrete would be preferred, not required
• High School diploma or general education degree (GED)

SUPERVISION RECEIVED

• Close Supervision: The incumbent is assigned duties according to specified procedures and receives detailed instructions. Work is checked frequently

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be meet by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Project timelines and work volume / deadlines may often require working outside of standard office hours, weekend, or evening work.

Regular, reliable and predictable attendance is necessary in order to perform the essential functions of this position.

Physical Activity

Over 2/3 of the time

• Stooping: Positions self to 90 degrees
• Walking: Moving about to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another

Up to 2/3 of the time:

• Kneeling/Crouching: Position self to move items, pick up tools and cleaning up work area
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm to use hand tools
• Communicating: Expressing or exchanging ideas and information accurately, in written or diagram form.

Less than 1/3 of the time:

• Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, Stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles, and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized. (This factor is important if the amount and kind of climbing required exceeds that required for ordinary locomotion.)
• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery or erratically moving surfaces. (This factor is important if the amount and kind of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.)
• Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward downward of outward
• Lifting: Raising object from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position (this factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles)
• Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with whole hand or arm as in using hand tools
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.
• Repetitive Motions: Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers such as doing paperwork during walk in process

Physical Requirements

Medium work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

Visual Acuity

The worker is required to have visual acuity to perform an activity such as: Preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, and/or operation of machines (including inspection) using measurement devices, and/or assembly or fabrication of parts at distances close to the eye.

Vision Requirements

Over 2/3 of the time

• The worker is required to have peripheral vision (ability to observe an area that can be seen up and down or to the left and right while eyes are fixed on a given point)
• The worker is required to have depth perception (three-dimensional vision, ability to judge distances and spatial relationships)

Up to 2/3 of the time:

• The worker is required to have distance vision (clear vision at 20 feet or more)
• The worker is required to have the ability to adjust visual focus (ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus

Less than 1/3 of the time:

• The worker is required to have close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less)

Weather Condition

Over 2/3 of the time

• The worker is subject to outside environmental conditions: No effective protection from weather
• The worker is subject to both environmental conditions: activities occur inside and outside
• The worker is subject to extreme heat: Temperatures above 100 degrees for periods of more than one hour. (Consideration should be given to the effect of other environmental conditions such as wind and humidity.)

Less than 1/3 of the time:

• The worker is subject to extreme cold: Temperatures typically below 32 degrees for periods of more than one hour. (Consideration should be given to the effect of other environmental conditions such as wind and humidity.)

Conditions the worker will be subject to in this position

• The worker is subject to noise: There is sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout in order to be heard above the ambient noise level.
• The worker is subject to vibrations: Exposure to oscillating movements of the extremities or whole body
• The worker is subject to hazards: Includes a variety of physical conditions, such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, moving vehicles, electrical current, working on scaffolding and high places, exposure to high heat or exposure to chemicals
• The worker is subject to atmospheric conditions: One or more of the following conditions that affect the respiratory system of the skin: Fumes, odors, dusts, mists, gases or poor ventilation
• The worker is subject to oils: There is air and/or skin exposure to oils and other cutting fluids
• The worker frequently is in close quarters, crawl spaces, shafts, man, holes, small, enclosed, rooms, small sewage and water line pipes, and other areas which could cause claustrophobia.

Noise Levels

Up to 2/3 of the time:

Loud noise (examples: metal can manufacturing department, large earth-moving