Scaffold Builder at Wood PLC in Houston, Texas

Job Description:

RESPONSIBILITIES

• The scaffold journeyman builds, positions, and dismantles scaffold structures from wood, steel frames and steel poles according to sketches, blueprints, manufactures instructions and or company standards.


• Will work with civil crew when not performing scaffold duties.


• A valid drivers license is required to operate any motorized vehilcle on the client's property.


• Examines, selects and gathers materials and tools


• Examines blue prints and specifications to determine dimensions of structure


• Inspect base surface for obstructions


• Loads, transports and unloads material


• Measures boards, timbers, or plywood, using square, measuring tape, and ruler, and marks cutting lines on materials using pencil and scriber


• Saws boards and plywood panels to required sizes


• Uses carpentry hand tools such as hammers, levels, squares, screw drivers, adjustable wrenches, hand and power saws, drill motors and pry bars


• Assembles scaffold containing handrails, mid rails, braces, planks and toe boards


• Use effective verbal and written communication skills


• Be capable of listening and communicating with other supervision and employees


• Be motivated and work safely and productively


• Understand and respond accordingly to all safety alerts, warnings, hazards, etc.


• Additional duties as required.

• 2-3 years of Journeyman experience in craft


• The employee must be able to use standard and/or metric rule to measure


• Demonstrate ability to use whole numbers, fractions and decimals to add, subtract, multiply and divide and be able to accurately follow instructions


• Equipment Selection - Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.


• Ability to calculate the amount of material needed to erect a specfic scaffold fromt he instructions given


• Ability to figure materials for several different designs of scaffold


• Ability to read measuring tapes, and to understand the use of levels


• Ability to read and understand methods and procedurers that re present on drawings, layout work, and just specification


• Work in a safe and productive manner


• Be able to work at heights without fear