Aerial Laborer en None

Aerial Laborer 

Shall assist the assigned crew by furnishing tools, materials, and supplies; cleaning work area, machines, and tools; holding materials or tools for other workers; and performing traffic control duties as directed by the crew leader. At a minimum, the position requires familiarity with hand tools, ladders, and vehicles and the functionality of each.

General Accountabilities

• Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
• Assist Foreman/or operator in construction work
• Take instruction from the Foreman
• Complete duties as assigned
• Operate all necessary tools related in the utility industry
• Assure that all tools are accounted for and returned to a truck
• Signal equipment operators to facilitate alignment, movement, and adjustment of machinery, equipment, and materials
• Set up all road safety signs, cones and barrels before the job and assure all are accounted for at the end of every day
• Clean and prepare construction sites to eliminate possible hazards
• Clean all trash from job site
• Control traffic
• Loads, unloads, and identifies building materials, machinery, and tools
• Shoring braces and other temporary structures
• Operate hand and power tools of all types
• Recognize and identify utility locates and meaning
• Always have something to do (i.e., grease equipment, clean trucks/trailer/tools, etc) when “down time” is necessary
• Candidates must be able to pass Chauffeur License
• Dig ditches or trenches, backfill excavations, and compact and level earth to grade specifications, using picks, shovels, pneumatic tampers, and rakes
• Measures, marks, and records openings and distances to lay out areas where construction work will be performed
• Must be able to read and understand construction prints
• Candidates must be able to operate a bucket truck & climb poles
• *The company reserves the right to add or change duties at any time

Job Qualifications

• Identify material, methods and the tools involved in the field
• Identify machine and tools, their designs, uses
• Policies, procedures and strategies to promote safety
• Ability to listen to and implement directions
• Ability to pass motor vehicle, drug screen and background check
• Must have valid driver license
• 1 year of experience utility industry
• Knowledge of pole framing, placement of strand
• Class A CDL preferred, For-Hire Endorsement required