UTILITIES LABORER
CW Construction
- Grand Junction, CO
- $18.00-23.00 per hour
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Cleans and prepares job sites, including removal of debris, garbage, or excess water accumulation.
- Helps load and unload utilities materials.
- Operating a variety of tools and machines, including water spraying truck and equipment.
- Responsible for excavating or back-filling utility trenches using tools and shovels.
- Checks slopes as instructed for conformance to requirements using levels and lasers.
- Assists Utility Operators and Pipe Layers maneuvering pipe, manholes, and trench boxes into position.
- Assists with grade trenches or culverts.
- Performing other duties as assigned.
- Responsibility and reliability, with good attendance habits.
- General knowledge of trench and utilities site safety.
- Experience with grading trenches and operation of laser leveling systems is preferred.
- Good safety history and willingness to engage and contribute to ongoing safe work practices, including strong knowledge of excavation, trenching, and shoring safety standards.
- Ability to follow direction and be a team-player.
- Ability to effectively communicate with supervisors, team members, and client representatives.
- Preferred: High School diploma or GED with 6 months of verifiable experience in the utilities industry.
- Ability to stand or walk for extended periods of time on various terrain, including slopes and uneven ground.
- Ability to push/pull/manipulate up to 96 ft./lbs.
- Ability to push/pull/drag lifting chains/straps up to 53 ft./lbs.
- Ability to push/pull/drag equipment by assisting up to 34 ft./lbs. and team-lift 97 lbs. material, tools, and power equipment.
- Ability to lift and carry material and/or equipment up to 90 lbs., including but not limited to generators, jumping jacks, water hoses, water meters, man-hole covers, bags of cement, pipe fittings, etc.
- Ability to ascend and descend various ladders and levels of terrain.
- Ability to reach above head and at 6-inches with fine and gross motor skills.
- Ability to bend, stoop, squat, kneel, and/or crouch.
- Ability to dig/shovel various soils while performing daily duties.
- Outside work exposed to variant weather conditions (hot, cold, rain, snow) and muddy ground conditions.