Building Laborer

Job Description

Job Description

Overview

CHENEGA HEALTHCARE SERVICES, LLC

Ft. Monmouth Oceanport, NJ

The Laborer, Building Class A is responsible to the Project Manager for performing duties as assigned. Work is performed under minimum supervision, and employee consults with Contract Manager only for the initial job assignment and where departures from standard practices are involved.

Responsibilities

• Perform general maintenance and repair of building structures and their mechanical, electrical, or sanitary systems. 
• May also perform general maintenance of the establishment's machinery.
• Require basic analysis, judgment and practical knowledge of several maintenance trades, department, company and government policies and procedures.
• Keeps in good repair building woodwork
• Replaces electrical switches, fixtures, and motors
• Occasionally paints or touches up structure and equipment
• Repairs or replaces plumbing fixture and replaces broken window panes.
• Occasionally paint or touches up structures and equipment
• Repair or replace plumbing fixtures
• Replace broken window panes
• Specialist laborer including mason tender or concrete pour crew; scaffold builder (scaffolds up to 14 feet in height); operator of forklifts, Bobcats (or equivalent machinery),jack hammers, tampers, motorized tampers and compactors, vibrators, street cleaning machines, hydro demolition equipment, riding motor buggies, conveyors, burners and nozzlemen on gunite work.
• Respond to overtime or off-duty recalls from designated company authority to meet priority or emergency work requirements.
• Assure the protection of surrounding work areas and the overall operation is within guidelines of required safety rules and regulations.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Possess high school diploma or equivalent.
• Minimum (4) four years’ experience in general maintenance and repair.
• Possess and maintain a valid New Jersey driver's license.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :

• Knowledge in carpentry, plumbing, roof repair and basic electrical.
• Ability to determine work methods to accomplish assignments.
• Perform work in accordance with applicable building codes and government and COS rules and regulations.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operatmg and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Frequent inside/outside contacts requiring the use of tact to avoid friction and secure cooperation. Improper handling will adversely affect job performance.
• Ability to calculate figures such a proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

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

• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee may use repeated motions that include the arms, wrists, hands and/or fingers. The employee is occasionally required to walk, stand, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.