Grade Checker
Fisher Industries
- Salt Lake City, UT
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Reads and understands survey stakes, blueprints, sketches, and drawings to determine grade specifications required for fill, sloping or excavation operations.
- Reads, measures, and sets grade stakes, along highway right-of-way to determine grade specifications in sloping highways and fill embankments utilizing survey and/or measuring instruments and hand tools.
- Measures horizontally and vertically, in specified ratio, from survey stake to juncture of embankment and initial excavation, utilizing survey and/or measuring instruments, GPS equipment, hand tools, and eye level.
- Observe excavating activities to verify conformance to stake references and notify equipment operators and supervision of deviations.
- Inspect, clean, and maintain tools, equipment, and machinery.
- Perform job site clean-up and maintain job site free of hazards.
- May perform traffic control, including flagging.
- May perform a variety of physical tasks including but not limited to operating equipment and machinery.
- Perform other duties as required.
- High School Diploma, GED or equivalent years of experience, preferred.
- (1) year of grade checking experience, preferred. Grade or pave experience with understanding of grading, drainage, survey staking, preferred.
- Ability to communicate effectively.
- Ability to work, day, swing, and nights shifts (occasionally extended hours).
- Ability to work in constant exposure to outside elements, in all weather conditions.
- Ability to work in safety sensitive construction setting, including exposure to moving machinery and heavy equipment.
- Ability to work collaborative with a team in a fast-paced and complex environment.
- Ability to squat, crawl, and work in awkward positions/confined spaces.
- Physical dexterity, stamina, and excellent hand-eye coordination with ability to grasp, assemble and lift objects, stand, sit, and walk for extended periods over uneven surfaces, squat, bank, climb ladders onto equipment or other objects.
- Lifting, pushing, pulling of heavy items weighing up to 50 lbs. or more.