REEVES | Asphalt Laborer - Columbia, SC

Asphalt Laborer

Reeves Construction Company is currently seeking an individual for the position of Asphalt Laborer in Columbia, SC. The successful candidate for this role will have an uncompromising focus on safety excellence.

Main Responsibilities:

• Ability to work safely and follow the policies and procedures of the company.
• Flexibility to allow various labor activities including, but not limited to: shoveling dirt, sand, asphalt or concrete using short or long handle shovels; cutting or trimming trees and vegetation using axes, ditch blades, sling blades, chain saws or power weed trimmers; driving stakes or breaking pavement using sledge hammers, digging holes using hand-operated post hole diggers; operating hand-driven compaction devices, and brooming dirt and debris using hand brooms.

These activities may take place at one or more of the following locations: asphalt plants, existing roads or streets under traffic, new roads and streets without traffic, various building sites and the office or shop facilities.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of one year of work-related experience.
• Must provide own transportation to and from work.
• High School Diploma or GED preferred, but not necessarily required.
• Driving License (preferred).

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop; kneel; crouch or walk; talk or hear, and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 60 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Employee must have 20/40 vision, either naturally or with corrective lenses. Hearing should be excellent or corrected by audio device.

Work Environment:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts, outside weather conditions, and vibration. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and toxic or caustic chemicals. The noise level in the work environment is usually very loud.

Benefits and Compensation:

Competitive pay & comprehensive benefits include paid holidays, vacation, life insurance, accidental death & dismemberment insurance, group health plan options (incl. medical, dental & vision, HSA, FSA), short term disability benefits & 401(k)/401(k) Roth w/company match.

Colas Inc. and its subsidiaries are an Equal Opportunity Employer.