Asplundh Careers

Description

Groundperson (Travel Required)

The groundperson is responsible for loading, unloading and moving materials. Scanning areas from trip and fall hazards, ensuring other workers stay out of the path of travel. This position is also responsible for maintaining equipment and materials.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities:

• Site Preparation & Cleanup: Cleaning hazards, debris, and, preparing, or maintaining work areas.
• Material Handling: Loading, unloading, and moving building materials to appropriate locations
• Equipment & Vehicles: Services vehicles and equipment, maintaining them in neat, clean, and specified mechanical order.
• Safety Adherence: Following all, safety procedures, and, regulations, wearing, personal, protective equipment (PPE), to ensure a, safe, work, environment.
• Traffic Assist: Control traffic passing near, in, or around work zones with appropriate training provided.
• Earthwork: Dig ditches or trenches, backfill excavations, or compact and level earth using picks, shovels, pneumatic tampers, or rakes.
• Brush removals: Operate a chainsaw to cut brush, logs and stumps of larger treesas well as gathering and feeding brush & debris into a woodchipper.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be 18 years-of-age or older.
• Travel required

Education & Experience

• High School Diploma or equivalent preferred.
• Entry-level position.
• Previous construction experience preferred.

Pre-Screen

• Upon offer, employees may be required to subject and pass a pre-employment drug screen, background and/or MVR check.

License & Certifications:

• Driver's License Preferred, but not required

Physical Requirements:

• RARE (less than 10%): Sitting, Crawling, Climbing Poles, Color Vision, Climbing Ladders, Climbing Stairs
• OCCASSIONAL (up to 33%): stooping, kneeling squatting, body twisting, sense of touch, climbing on/off truck, gripping, lifting over 10 lbs. to 50 lbs., reaching, lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, climbing ladders, balancing, lifting over 50 lbs.
• FREQUENT (up to 66%): standing, walking, manual dexterity, seeing distant, seeing, reading, range of motion, hearing-speech range, depth perception, climbing stairs, lifting up to 10 lbs.
• CONTINUOUS (up to 100%): Sense of Touch, Gripping, Seeing, Carrying, Pulling

Individuals with a disability who desire a reasonable accommodation can contact the ADA Coordinator by calling 1-833-222-3066. We partner with the Department of Homeland Security/U.S. Customs and Immigration Service to e-Verify all newly hired employees.