THE FOLLOWING TASKS ARE PERFORMED BY LABORERS:
- Tends pumps, compressors, and generators to provide power for tools, machinery, and equipment
- Lubricates, cleans, and repairs machinery, equipment, and tools
- Mixes ingredients to create compounds used to cover or clean surfaces
- Loads and unloads trucks, and hauls and hoists materials
- Erects and disassembles scaffolding, shoring, braces, and other temporary structure
- Builds and positions forms for pouring concrete and dismantles forms after use, using saws, hammers, nails, or bolts
- Measures, marks, and records openings and distances to layout area to be graded or to erect building structures
- Smooth and finishes freshly poured cement or concrete, using a float, trowel, screed, or powered cement finishing tool
- Applies caulking compounds by hand or with a caulking gun to seal crevices
- Positions join, aligns, and seals structural components, such as concrete wall sections and pipes
- May assist other craft workers
- Performs other related duties as required
THE FOLLOWING KNOWLEDGE IS REQUIRED TO SKILLFULLY PERFORM THE JOB OF LABORER:
- Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction
- Knowledge of machines and tools; their use, repair, and maintenance
- Knowledge of company safety policies and procedures to comply with company, local, state, and/or federal laws
- Previous manufacturing or concrete finishing work a plus
THE FOLLOWING SKILLS ARE REQUIRED TO PERFORM THE JOB OF LABORER:
- Adjusting actions in relation to others’ actions
- Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determine when and what type of maintenance is needed
- Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make certain equipment is working properly
- Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to perform a job
- Controlling operations of equipment or systems
- Conducting tests and inspections of work to evaluate quality or performance
- Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications
- Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs
- Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operation, and the environment will affect outcomes
- Ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules
- Ability to operate a two-way radio
THE FOLLOWING PHYSICAL DEMANDS ARE REQUIRED TO PERFORM THE JOB OF LABORER:
- Constant bending, stooping, twisting, crawling, kneeling
- Constant standing/walking on uneven surfaces
- Occasional working with arms/hands above head
- Frequent climbing of ladders, platforms, scaffolding
- Frequent lifting up to 50 pounds from ground to waist level
- Frequent lifting up to 50 pounds overhead
- Occasional, repetitive lifting up to 100 pounds team lift from ground to waist level with arms extended
- Frequent, repetitive pushing and pulling up to 100 pounds
- Constant repetitive hand and forearming activities
- Constant use of both power and non-power hand tools
- Ability to work heights
- Work in environmental extremes of heat and cold dependent upon job location
- Frequent work in dusty environments
- Frequent work in areas of excessive noise
- Ability to work swing shifts
- Work variable hours including overtime hours as needed
Occasional = up to 3 hours per day Frequent = 3 to 6 hours per day
Constant = 6 to 8 hours per day Repetitive = 15 or more times per hour