Pipe Layer - Lanham, United States - Total Civil Construction & Engineering, LLC

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Description

THIS JOB REQUIRES PRIOR EXPERIENCE WITH WET UTILITIES PIPE LAYING (NOT PIPE FITTERS)

PLEASE NOTE:
_TCCE hires field construction staff to work at jobs in the region (primarily Maryland, DC, Northern Virginia). This means job locations will change as needed._**
Job Summary
Lay pipe for storm or sanitation sewers, drains, and water mains.

Perform any combination of the following tasks:
grade trenches or culverts, position pipe, or seal joints. In addition to laying pipe, the pipe layer also works with laborers to dig trenches for/around existing utilities.


Duties & Responsibilities

  • Install or use instruments such as lasers, grade rods, or transit level.
  • Dig trenches for/around existing utilities.
  • Assist in aligning pipes during pipeline construction (generally for wet utilities [water/sewer]).
  • Grade and level trench bases, using tamping machine and hand tools.
  • Check slopes for conformance to requirements, using levels or lasers.
  • Connect pipes and seal joints using glue, cement, gaskets and/or flanges.
  • Cover pipes with other earth materials / aggregates.
  • Other general labor and construction related duties are required.
  • Perform other tasks duties, as assigned.

Qualifications

  • Must have physical ability to stand strenuous and dangerous work environment. Must be comfortable working in 15ft to 20ft trenches and other confined spaces.
  • Possess physical strength dig and perform general labor with laborer crews, including digging by hand.
  • Able to communicate effectively with others and work cooperatively in teams (including resolving basic conflicts with or without the assistance of management).
  • Handle emergency situations, work pressure and stress.
  • Able to solve basic, commonsense problems.
  • Able to work with general supervision and use some experience/judgment.
  • Must have a flexible schedule (make work irregular or odd hours in outdoor work sites, depending upon project needs or weather), including nights and weekends.

Physical Demands

  • The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform essential job functions. _Reasonable accommodations may be made to qualified individuals with disabilities to enable performance of essential job functions. _While performing the duties of this job, the employee is _
  • Required to continuously use vision abilities, including close, distance, color and peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
  • Frequently required to stand, talk and hear; lift or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift or move up to 100 pounds (with or without assistance).
  • Occasionally required to walk, sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch and crawl.

Work Environment

  • While performing the duties of this job, the employee _
  • Regularly works in outside weather conditions.
  • Frequently works near moving mechanical parts; is exposed to vibration, wet or humid conditions, heat, and other forms of inclement weather; and is exposed to loud noise.
  • Occasionally works in high, precarious places or in excavations, and is exposed to fumes or particulates, chemicals and electrical energy, as well as machinery.
  • Total Civil Construction & Engineering, LLC, is an Equal Opportunity/

Affirmative Action Employer:
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  • Minorities, Females, Disabled, Veterans are strongly encouraged to apply._
  • Total Civil Construction is proud to be an E-Verify Employer and Drug-Free Workplace_

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