What are the responsibilities and job description for the Pipe Layer - Savannah, GA position at Colas?
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Reeves Construction Company, the Colas USA subsidiary that operates throughout the states North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, has been a key partner in the infrastructure growth of the Southeast since the company’s founding in 1955. Reeves is a complete heavy civil highway and site development construction company dedicated to meet the specific needs of the roadway, airport, bridge, and military market. Reeves prides itself for its high company standards of safety, ethics, and performance. To learn more about Reeves visit www.reevescc.com.
Throughout Colas USA, we provide competitive pay, outstanding benefits, career advancement opportunities, professional education, and extensive training for every employee. We pride ourselves on upholding the highest standards of safety, environmental conservation, and ethical conduct as we strive to grow our infrastructure products and services through empowering and developing our people, fostering innovation, utilizing new technology, and maximizing vertical integration at all levels of the company’s value chain. To learn more about the Colas USA Family of Companies, please visit www.colasusa.com.
Reeves, and the rest of the Colas USA Family of Companies, is part of the Colas Group, the worldwide leader in transportation infrastructure construction and maintenance. For information on our international network visit www.colas.com.
Mission
Reeves Construction Company is currently seeking an experienced individual for the position of Pipe Layer in Savannah, GA. The successful candidate for this role will have an uncompromising focus on safety excellence.
Job Description
Reeves Construction Company is looking for Pipe Layers for its Savannah, GA location. Qualified candidates must be able to assist the grading crew by laying pipe and other concrete structures to complete the underground utilities needed for the job.
Main Responsibilities and Duties
- Adhere to Reeves Construction Company safety programs to ensure a safe work environment
- Shovel work around trenches
- Lifting pipe and operating compaction devices
- Locate and avoid underground utilities
- Ability to understand and interpret grade information
- Read and interpret grade instruments (example: rules, grade rods, carpenter levels and lasers)
- Ability to work and operate equipment in a safe and consistent manner
- Willingness to work nights and weekends
Skills Required
- Must have a basic knowledge of soil types, trenching and shoring
- Must be able to work independently and carry out detailed instructions
- Must provide own transportation to and from work
Physical Demands and Work Environment
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. 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 General Information
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.
**Drug-Free Workplace**
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