Key Responsibilities:

• Perform work in accordance with all organizational, as well as provincial and federal health and safety standards and legislation, ensuring highest standard of safety is upheld.
• Perform daily site assessments, including identification of potential work site hazards.
• Ensure appropriate tools are transported to the worksite. Ensure proper functioning off all tools prior to utilization.
• Prepare area for pipe installation, performing all necessary excavation preparation including slope and elevation determination.
• Perform required excavations to create trenches utilizing equipment or when necessary, through manual digging.
• Grade and level trench bases using tamping machines or through the use of hand tools.
• Make certain all trenches are dug according to blueprint instruction including adherence to all specified excavation levels and depths.
• Manually or through the use of equipment, place pipe accurately and according to blueprints.
• Place barrels and drywells as required.
• Properly connect pipe pieces and seal joints.
• Bed pipe with required materials, packing materials with required.
• Backfill trenches with required materials upon completion of job.
• Provide manual labour assistance as required.
• Maintain organizational services, facilities, and equipment.
• Engage in all forms of labour to assist in the successful completion of construction projects from start to finish.
• Assist site trades people as necessary.

Skill/Requirements

• High School Diploma or G.E.D required.
• Previous pipe-laying and/or civil construction experience considered an asset.
• Ability to properly read and understand blueprints.
• Effective verbal communication skills.
• Active listening skill considered essential.
• Ability to work as a team as well as with little supervision.
• Ability to take and follow instruction.