Skilled Laborer

At Total Civil Construction & Engineering, we don't just build roads and infrastructure — we build lasting impact. As we continue expanding across the Mid-Atlantic region, we're looking for hardworking and experienced Skilled Laborers to join our field teams and help deliver high-quality civil construction projects.

The construction skilled laborer helps the pipe layer by performing duties requiring technical experience. Duties include assisting with laying pipe for storm or sanitation sewers, drains, and water mains. S/he may assist in the performance of any combination of the following tasks: grade trenches or culverts, position pipe, or seal joints. In addition to assisting pipelayers, the skilled laborer also works digging trenches for / around existing utilities, manually help with ensuring appropriate grading, and move materials/ tools.

The skilled laborer plays a major day to day role to keep work sites clean and compliant.

• Must have physical ability to stand strenuous and dangerous work environment. Must be comfortable working in 15ft
  -20ft trenches and other confined spaces.
• Has physical strength dig and perform general labor with laborer crews, including digging by hand and lifting / pushing / pulling materials.
• Able to communicate effectively with others and work cooperatively in teams (including resolving basic conflicts with or without the assistance of management).
• Handle emergency situations, work pressure and stress.
• Able to solve basic, common-sense problems using experience and construction knowledge.
• Must have a flexible schedule (make work irregular or odd hours in outdoor work sites, depending upon project needs or weather), including nights and weekends.
• Must have access to own transportation to reach non-standard work sites during non-standard hours.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform essential job functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to qualified individuals with disabilities to enable performance of essential job functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is…

• Required to continuously use vision abilities, including close, distance, color and peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
• Regularly required to use hands and fingers to handle, feel or operate objects, tools or controls, and reach with hands and arms; use fine motor coordination and eye-hand coordination to push / pull / lift items.
• Frequently required to stand, talk and hear; lift or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift or move up to 100 pounds (with or without assistance).
• Occasionally required to walk, sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, lift.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee …

• Regularly works in outside weather conditions.
• Frequently works near moving mechanical parts; is exposed to vibration, wet or humid conditions, heat, and other forms of inclement weather; and is exposed to loud noise.
• Occasionally works in…