Experienced Paving Laborer

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Experienced Paving Laborer

US-PA-Pocono Lake

Job ID: 2023-2258
Type: Regular Full-Time
Category: Contracting
Pocono Lake Division

Overview

The Pocono Lake Division of the H&K Group, Inc., is currently seeking an experienced and motivated Paving Laborer to become a part of our team. Usually performing their duties in a utility capacity, the position entails working on construction projects, often transferring from one task to another whenever the situation requires. If you meet the job requirements outlined below, H&K would be happy to consider you for this position.

Why work for H&K Group, 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 include
  • Distance
  • 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 airborne particles
• Noise level is usually moderate

H&K Group, Inc.’s (H&K’s) Pocono Lake Division (formerly Locust Ridge Contractors) has been a proud member of our heavy civil construction team since 1984. Established at our Locust Ridge Quarry hub location to gain ready access to the region’s finest construction aggregate products, the Pocono Lake Division provides complete heavy civil construction and contracting services to the Pocono Region, northeast PA and northern NJ area.

The H&K Group, Inc. provides complete heavy civil contracting and construction materials solutions with safety, speed, quality, efficiency, and value. Beginning as a small family business a half century ago, we are now a dynamic group of vertically integrated companies that has been growing and prospering for over 50 years.

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.

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.

CDL positions require additional paperwork related to reporting compliance throughout the selection and hiring process. Applicants may be required to complete additional information and disclosure forms. Email will be the primary communication method.

Pre-employment drug testing (EOE)

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100% Company-Paid Health Benefits!

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