Concrete Laborer

Concrete Laborer| Methuen Construction Company, Inc.

Methuen Construction is seeking a Laborer to provide essential support to the Field Operations department. This position reports to the Foreman and is not responsible for the oversight of other teammates. This is a full-time, hourly non-exempt position.

Your Role

• Cleanup of debris, grounds, and buildings.
• Stripping of concrete framework, including removal of exposed ties.
• Unloading of materials and deliveries to Project Site.
• Hand excavation, digging of trenches, raking, tamping, compacting soil.
• Placing concrete in formwork including horizontal formwork for flatwork.
• Vibrating conrete.
• Setting up of ladders, means of access, scaffolding and planking.
• Wrapping and covering with tarps, polyethylene or insulating blankets.
• Mixing mortar and grout including grout beneath structural and mechanical baseplates.
• Backfilling, grading, or raking.
• Laying of drains, sewers, water distribution, PVC conduits or other piping in the trench (pipe layer).
• Assembly of manholes, catch basins and drainage structures (pipe layer).
• Tending all other trades including materials handling on site prior to final installation.
• Handling all other trades including materials handing on site prior to final installation.
• Handling and placement of riprap, slope protection, erosion control, and siltation control materials.
• Spreading and rolling of bituminous asphalt.
• Screeding of concrete.
• Patching the holes in concrete surfaces.
• Demolition activities.
• Hand grading of earth materials, curb setting, and landscaping.
• Setting and stripping concrete sidewalk forms.
• Installation and removal of temporary weather protection.
• Handling, rigging, and setting of precast concrete slabs, planks, walls, and curbing.
• Sand and water blasting.
• Application of concrete curing compounds.
• Installation of insulation, damproofing, and moisture barrier materials below or at grade on or beneath concrete walls and slabs.
• Concrete coring and cutting.
• Sheet piling, lagging, and shoring of trenches and excavations.
• Installation and removal of temporary weather protection.
• Fire watch activities.

Your Education and Experience

• High School or Vocational and/or relevant work experience.
• Minimum 1-3+ years of experience within the construction industry.

What You Bring to the Team

• Proven ability to excel in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong team player with a positive attitude.
• Hard working and motivated.

Supervisory Responsibility

• This position is not responsible for the oversight of any other teammates.

Position Type

• This is an hourly non-exempt position.

Travel

Job posting location does not guarantee that the position will be in that location; Methuen Construction has jobs throughout New England, and travel may be required, with occasional out of state and overnight travel. Company per diem policy will apply.

Work Environment/Physical Demands

• Ability to lift 50 pounds.
• Ability to stand for extended periods of time, and safely maneuver around the nearby presence of various construction equipment and vehicles, on an active construction site.
• Prepared to regularly encounter moving mechanical parts, high precarious places, fumes or airborne particles, and a variety of outside weather conditions.
• Able to climb temporary or permanent stairs, and ladders.
• Able to bend, squat, kneel, crawl, reach, balance, and stoop on a regular basis.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Reasonable Accommodations

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Why You’ll Love Working Here

Methuen Construction is widely recognized as the most successful, self-performing general contractor in the industry. Built on over 60 years of experience, Methuen Construction employs the highest skilled trades professionals. As we expand our construction territory, diversify our client base, and enhance our operational capabilities, our need for highly skilled teammates is growing! We offer top-tier compensation and benefits, in addition to a team oriented, motivated, and respectful company culture.

An Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer

Methuen Construction provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. As a Federal Contractor, we encourage priority referral of protected veterans under VEVRAA.