Skilled Laborer

Overview

As a skilled laborer, you will assist electricians and other crew members in the installation of electrical systems and components. Duties include working with tools, installing conduit, wire, junction boxes, electrical lighting and other labor activities as assigned. Must keep all materials, tools, and equipment in an orderly fashion, maintain a clean work area at all times, demonstrate safe work habits and exhibit proper care of all tools and equipment.

Essential Functions

• Proceed with the process of learning the electrical trade
• Bend and install conduit systems and pull wire
• Install light fixtures and connect to branch power
• Perform other activity as instructed by the foreman/crew leader
• Gather and transport required tools and materials to their assigned work areas
• Provide assistance (electrician helper) to more skilled workers involved in the installation, maintenance, and repair of electrical systems and components.
• Learn and retain specific job-related tasks that are taught by more skilled employees
• Perform physically demanding tasks, such as digging trenches to lay conduit and moving and lifting heavy objects.
• Perform work from ladders, scaffolds, and aerial lifts
• Must be a team player
• Be dependable and prompt when scheduled to work
• Practice safe working habits as directed by the Safety Program
• Maintain the required hand tools
• Moving materials to the worksite and ensuring all tools, machinery, and other equipment are safely set up
• Operating equipment like drills, pneumatic hammers, shovels, and other heavy machinery
• Comply with health and safety requirements and company policies
• Removing hazardous materials from sites
• Spreading gravel, asphalt, and other materials over surfaces
• Performing site and equipment inspections
• Complete on-the-job training
• Assist with composite cleanup as needed

Job Working Conditions and Environment:

This position is physically demanding and often requires working outdoors while exposed to all types of weather conditions and while working in all types of environments. For example, the incumbent may be required to work, depending on the job location and the time of year, in the heat, cold, rain and snow. This position also requires working at extreme heights, in areas that are under construction, or in restricted areas such as a switchgear room, manhole, utility tunnel, crawl space or attic. The incumbent must be able to access work areas that are accessible only by O.S.H.A. approved site construction ladders or stairs that are under construction. Additionally, this position requires flexible work hours. In order to get a project completed on time, laborers are often required to work overtime, weekends and night shifts. The incumbent must work in the presence of customers and their representatives with little or no interference or disruption to the customer while maintaining a professional and courteous image.

Position Qualifications

Education, Training and Certifications

• High School Graduate or General Education Degree (GED); or equivalent studies
• Minimum of one year of previous electrical work experience required

Abilities:

• Lifts at least 100 pounds at one time and 60 pounds for an extended period of time.
• Relocates a 12 foot stepladder without assistance.
• Works at various heights up to 60 feet and can climb and maintain balance on scaffolds, aerial lifts, catwalks and all types of ladders.
• Walks, climbs, lifts, squats, crawls, kneels, pushes, pulls and reaches overhead on a routine and repetitive basis.
• Possess good vision (may be corrected vision), the ability to see in color, and the ability to hear and communicate in English.
• May use a standard ladder without exceeding the weight limit while carrying tools.
• Tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
• Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (including finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
• See details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
• Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.