Pipelayer

Your Role

• Installation, testing and commissioning of water, storm and sanitary pipe and underground raceway
• Installation of ductile iron, PVC, HDPE, and other buried piping systems up to and sometimes exceeding 48” in diameter
• Cut and bevel pipe ends
• Installation of push-on and mechanically restrained joint piping (i.e. Megalug)
• Assemble and install shoring and trench boxes in excavation as required
• Assist Foreman, Engineers, and/or Superintendent in the layout of various piping systems
• Hand excavation, digging of trenches, backfilling, raking, tamping, and compacting soil
• Assembly of manholes, catch basins and drainage structures
• Monitor and guide excavation by equipment operator

What You Bring to the Team

• Proven ability to excel in a fast-paced environment
• Strong team player with a positive attitude
• Hard working and motivated

Supervisory Responsibility
This position is not responsible for the oversight of any other teammates.

Position Type
This is an hourly non-exempt position.

Travel
Primarily limited to Northeast job site locations

Your Education and Experience

• High School or Vocational and or relevant work experience
• Minimum of 1-3 years of experience within the construction industry

Work Environment/Physical Demands

• Ability to lift a minimum of 50-60 pounds
• Ability to stand for extended periods of time, and safely maneuver around the nearby presence of various construction equipment and vehicles, on an active construction site
• Prepared to regularly encounter moving mechanical parts, high precarious places, fumes or airborne particles, and a variety of outside weather conditions
• Able to climb temporary or permanent stairs, and ladders
• Able to bend, squat, kneel, crawl, crouch, balance and stoop, reach on a regular basis
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus

Essential Functions
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

An Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer
Methuen Construction provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. As a Federal Contractor, we encourage priority referral of protected veterans under VEVRAA.