Pipe Layer
Total Civil Construction & Engineering, LLC
- Arlington, VA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Install or use instruments such as lasers, grade rods, or transit level.
- Dig trenches for/around existing utilities.
- Assist in aligning pipes during pipeline construction (generally for wet utilities [water/sewer]).
- Grade and level trench bases, using tamping machine and hand tools.
- Check slopes for conformance to requirements, using levels or lasers.
- Connect pipes and seal joints using glue, cement, gaskets and/or flanges.
- Cover pipes with other earth materials / aggregates.
- Other general labor and construction related duties are required.
- Perform other tasks duties, as assigned.
- Must have physical ability to stand strenuous and dangerous work environment. Must be comfortable working in 15ft to 20ft trenches and other confined spaces.
- Possess physical strength dig and perform general labor with laborer crews, including digging by hand.
- 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.
- Able to work with general supervision and use some experience/judgment.
- 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.
- 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 levers and apply pressure to control; utilize feet to press pedals; sit in static positions for long period of time.
- 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 and crawl.
- 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 high, precarious places or in excavations, and is exposed to fumes or particulates, chemicals and electrical energy, as well as machinery.