general construction labourer
Education:
Other trades certificate or diploma. or equivalent experience.
Tasks:
- Load, unload and transport construction materials.
- Measure weight to prepare for rigging and hoisting.
- Operate mobile and tower cranes to lift, move, position or place equipment and materials.
- Perform pre-operational inspection.
- Read blueprints to determine work requirements .
- Clean and lubricate cranes.
- Erect and dismantle concrete forms, scaffolding, ramps, catwalks shoring and barricades.
- Operate pile driving cranes to drive pilings into earth to provide support for buildings and other structures.
- Instruct apprentices.
- Mix, pour and spread materials such as concrete and asphalt.
- Operate cranes equipped with dredging attachments to dredge waterways and other areas.
- Assemble tower cranes on site.
- Help medical examiner in charge.
- Assist in aligning pipes during pipeline construction.
- Operate locomotive cranes to move objects and materials at railway yards.
- Assist in drilling and blasting rock on construction sites.
- Operate bridge or overhead cranes to lift, move and place plant machinery and materials.
- Assist in framing houses, erecting walls and building roofs.
- Operate offshore oil rig cranes to unload and reload supply vessels.
- Level earth to fine grade specifications.
- Operate cranes mounted on boats or barges to lift, move and place equipment and materials.
- Pave and rake asphalt.
- Assist in demolishing buildings.
- Clean and pile salvaged materials.
- Perform routine maintenance work.
- Clean up chemical spills and other contaminants.
- Remove rubble and other debris at construction sites.
- Tend or feed machines or equipment used in construction.
- Direct traffic at or near construction sites.
Screening questions:
- Are you available for shift or on-call work?.
- Do you have experience working in this field?.
Experience:
1 year to less than 2 years.
Employment terms options:
- Morning.
- On call.
- Weekend.
- Overtime required.
- Overtime available.