LOCATION: Carpenters needed for projects throughout the Tidewater area of VA - Chesapeake, Norfolk, and Newport News, VA.  

SUMMARY: Construct, erect, and repair structures for heavy civil, marine, and industrial projects. Bridge experience preferred.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Select specified type of lumber or other materials
• Prepare layout
• Measure boards, timbers, or plywood, and marks cutting lines on materials;
• Shape materials to prescribed measurements
• Nail cleats (braces) across boards to construct concrete-supporting forms
• Brace forms in place with timbers, tie rods, and anchor bolts, for use in building concrete piers, footing, and walls;
• Assemble cut and shaped materials and fastens them together with nails, dowel pins, or glue
• Set expansion dams
• Assemble or run overhang modules or stick built overhangs
• Climb wingwalls, retaining walls
• Assemble wood deck forms
• Construct forms and chutes for pouring concrete
• Assist in pouring of concrete
• Erect scaffolding and ladders for assembling structures above ground level

Education and/or Experience

• Experience in bridge work, i.e. bridge formwork;
• Carpenter Training Program or equivalent experience for Carpenter Helpers

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Able to work while tied off to fall protection
• Able to work or walk on uneven ground
• Able to walk, climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
• Skilled in use of necessary hand and power tools
• Able to work with level
• Read and understand blueprints, sketches, or bridge plans for information pertaining to type of material required
• Read tape measure
• Lift/move up to 100 pounds

Benefits
Corman Kokosing offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, life, and disability insurance, paid time off and a 401K plan.

Equal Opportunity Employer
Veterans, Disabled, Minorities and Women encouraged to apply.