Laborer

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Job description

Overview:
Blooming Glen Contractors, a partner with the H&K Group, Inc., located in Blooming Glen, PA, is currently seeking experienced and motivated Laborers to become a part of our team. Usually performing their duties in a utility capacity, the Laborer position entails working on construction projects, often transferring from one task to another whenever the situation requires.

Why work for Blooming Glen Contractors, Inc.?

Competitive salary commensurate with experience

100% Company-paid Health Benefits

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan

Tuition reimbursement programs available to qualifying employees for approved programs

Additional training programs including on the job, online through H&K Academy, manufacturer offered training, and more

Responsibilities:
Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Performs all work adhering to OSHA and H&K Safety policies.

Acquires tools needed for daily operations

Measures distances from grade stakes, drives stakes, and stretches tight line.

Bolts, nails, aligns, and blocks up under forms.

Signals operators of construction equipment to facilitate alignment, movement, and adjustment of machinery to conform to grade specifications.

Levels earth to fine grade specifications.

Mixes concrete.

Smooths and finishes freshly poured cement or concrete.

Positions, joins, aligns, and seals pipe sections.

Erects scaffolding, shoring, and braces.

Paving Duties:Assists with pre-run markings

Uses a paving lute to fine grade before roller man compacts

Operates vibratory plate as needed

Shovels asphalt as required

Direct traffic around work area as required

Pipe Duties:Gets tools needed for daily operations

Gets job set up for daily function such as setting up a pipe laser

Operates a Wacker and jumping jack to perform backfilling duties

Uses cut saws to make pipe proper length

Preps pipe for connection before pipe gets lowered

Shoots grades and checks grades using laser or conventional methods

Performs connection of pipe work

Responsible for checking for proper pipe slope

Preps structures for installation

Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:
Required Skills, Education, and Experience

One month of related experience and/or training

Strong verbal and written communication skills

Mathematical skills including ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs

Ability to understand and carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions

Problem solving

Ability to fit test & utilize appropriate PPE as needed

Ability to meet physical requirements (movement, lifting, as relevant to job)

Preferred Skills, Education, and Experience

Experience working in heavy civil construction, road construction, or quarries

OSHA or other relevant safety certifications

Physical Demands

Frequently required to: Use hands and arms to finger, handle, reach, and feel

Talk and hear

Stand, walk, and climb

Lift and/or move up to 50 pounds

Occasionally required to stoop, kneel, balance, crouch, or crawl

Specific vision requirements includeDistance

Depth perception

Ability to adjust focus

Work Environment

Regularly exposed to outside weather conditions

Frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts

Occasionally exposed to fumes or airborn particles

Noise level is usually moderate

Blooming Glen Contractors, Inc. (BGC) is a family owned and operated heavy civil construction services and site contracting company based in Perkasie, Pennsylvania. BGC provides full-service site contracting and heavy civil construction services in the following core service areas: complete site and land development, demolition, transportation & structures, water & wastewater, design-build and value engineering and emergency response.

Founded in 1971, BGC remains dedicated to providing our customers and clients with exceptional service and finished products of the highest quality.

Thank you for your interest in employment with H&K Group, Inc. At H&K, we invest in our people, providing the essential training, instruction, and supervisory support that they need to develop and grow within our company. We acknowledge that H&K's strength and success is directly related to our employees and the talents, dedication, and job performance they exemplify. We seek dynamic, motivated people who are driven to make a difference.

This position may have the opportunity to work on prevailing wage projects. Prevailing wage work is not guaranteed. Final determination on pay will be made by company leadership consistent with the scope of work and considering the candidates' education, experience, skills, past performance, demonstrated leadership, and influence.

H&K does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veterans' status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are always looking for the best, most qualified people to join our team.

Pre-employment drug testing (EOE)

Pre-employment Physical

100% Company-Paid Health Benefits!

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