About This Role
This full-time maintenance job involves constructing, assembling, maintaining, and dismantling tubular scaffolding and other temporary structures. The role requires a Journeyman Scaffold Builder with at least three years of experience, working 40 hours a week.
Responsibilities
- Determine the type of scaffold needed
- Inspect job site and all scaffold material for defects and safety hazards
- Effectively communicate safety hazards and mitigate avoidable hazards prior to construction of scaffolding
- Transport tubular scaffold or other structural material and erect the scaffold to the dimensions required
- Hoist scaffolding materials upward to erect temporary structure
- Properly secure and level locking sections of scaffolding material
- Properly secure scaffold to the permanent structure for added stability
- Adhere to all OSHA, site-specific, and Austin Industrial requirements for the erecting and navigation of the scaffolding
- Perform final inspection of completed scaffolding
- Dismantle scaffolding when properly communicated to do so
- Inspect and properly stow scaffolding material after dismantling
- Perform work wearing personnel protective equipment, including but not limited to: rain gear, chemical protective clothing, supplied air and air purifying respirators, safety harness, sand blast hoods, fire resistant coveralls, hard hat, ear plugs, and safety glasses
- Have full range of mobility in upper and lower body, able to reach overhead, able to work in various positions, including, but not limited to, stooping, standing, bending over, sitting, kneeling, squatting
- Use hands to handle, or feel objects, tools or controls
- Reach with hands and arms
- Climb stairs
- Work at heights
- Balance for extended periods of time
Requirements
- Journeyman Scaffold Builder with a minimum of 3 years of experience
- Pass pre-employment physical, drug screen, and background check
- Able to sit, stand, walk, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach, and use hands and fingers to perform assigned duties
- Able to lift, carry, push, or pull up to 50 pounds
- Able to work at elevations, on uneven surfaces, or in confined spaces
- Possess sufficient visual, hearing, communication, and motor skills to safely perform job responsibilities
- Able to read, comprehend, and follow safety procedures, work instructions, and company policies
- Exercise sound judgment
- Solve problems
- Maintain attention to detail
- Effectively manage stress
- Adapt to changing priorities in a fast-paced work environment
