Laborer

Perform tasks involving physical labor on construction projects.

Job Responsibilities

• Mop, brush, or spread cleaning solutions, or other compounds over surfaces to clean them or to provide protection.
• Operate jackhammers and drills to break up concrete or pavement.
• Place concrete or masonry structures.
• Position, join, align, and seal structural components, such as concrete wall sections.
• Signal equipment operators to facilitate alignment, movement, and adjustment of machinery, equipment, and materials.
• Smooth and finish freshly poured cement or concrete, using floats, trowels, screeds, or powered cement finishing tools.
• Tend machines that pump concrete, grout, cement, sand, plaster or stucco through spray-guns for application to ceilings and walls.
• Tend pumps, compressors, and generators to provide power for tools, machinery, and equipment, or to heat and move materials such as asphalt.
• Build and position forms for pouring concrete, and dismantle forms after use, using saws, hammers, nails, or bolts.
• Clean and prepare construction sites to eliminate possible hazards.
• Control traffic passing near, in, and around work zones.
• Erect and disassemble scaffolding, shoring, braces, traffic barricades, ramps, and other temporary structures.
• Grind, scrape, sand, or polish surfaces such as concrete, marble, terrazzo, or wood flooring, using abrasive tools or machines.
• Load, unload, and identify building materials, machinery, and tools, and distribute them to the appropriate locations, according to project plans and specifications.
• Provide assistance to other craft workers.

• Workers must be able to stand or walk for long periods.
• Use arms and hands to reach for, handle and manipulate objects.
• Lift and carry materials weighing 50 lbs frequently and up to 100 lbs occasionally.
• Climb up and down ladders, scaffolds and other objects.
• Should have a general knowledge of the tools, equipment, and safety.

This position requires travel throughout Reed & Reed's operating region.

A Veteran Friendly, Equal Opportunity Employer