General / Skilled Laborer

Aspen Valley / Vail Valley

Job Summary: Performs tasks involving physical labor at residential or commercial building sites. Constructs, erects, installs, and repairs structures and fixtures of wood, plywood, and wallboard, conforming to local building codes.  

Essential Duties:

  • Must have a current driver’s license. Clean driving record a MUST.
  • Keeps premises of building and job site in clean and orderly condition.
  • Transport’s trash and waste to disposal area
  • Sweeps, empties trash cans, and pickups trash, as necessary.
  • Cleans rugs, carpets, upholstered furniture, and draperies.
  • Dust’s furniture and equipment.
  • Washes walls, ceiling, and woodwork. Washes windows, door panels, and sills.
  • Install temporary construction fencing.
  • Carry lumber and other building supplies.
  • Cuts and trims trees, and shovels snow.
  • Delivers messages. Transports small equipment or tools between sites or different areas of the job.
  • Measures distances from grade stakes, drives stakes, and stretches tight line.
  • Bolts, nails, aligns, and blocks up under forms.
  • Digging and filling dirt trenches with pickaxe, shovel, and other hand tools.
  • Mixes concrete. Smooths and finishes freshly poured cement or concrete.
  • Erects scaffolding, shoring, and braces.
  • Mops, brushes, or spreads paints or bituminous compounds over surfaces for protection.
  • Spray’s materials such as water, sand, steam, vinyl, paint, or stucco through hose to clean, coat, or seal surfaces.
  • Applies caulking compounds by hand or with caulking gun to seal crevices.
  • Grinds, sands, or polishes surfaces such as concrete, marble, terrazzo, stucco, or wood products.
  • Demolishes buildings, saws lumber, dismantles forms, remove projections from concrete, mounts pipe hangers, and cuts and attaches insulating material.

Job Qualifications:

  • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
  • The employee frequently is required to climb or balance. The employee is occasionally required to sit and talk or hear.
  • The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds.
  • Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.
  • Must be able to work outdoors in variable conditions as to be expected in the mountains.
  • Must be able to work on rough terrain and steep slopes.

A valid driver’s license and clean driving history is necessary

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