Scaffold Builder - Austin Industrial (St. Gabriel, LA)

**About Austin Industrial** Austin Industrial provides premier self-perform maintenance, construction, and soft craft service to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries. To learn more about us, visit https://www.austin-ind.com/what-we-do/industrial. **Scaffold Builder** This person will supervise in the construction, assembly, maintenance, and dismantling of tubular scaffolding or other temporary structures. Other duties may be assigned. **Specific Duties and Responsibilities:** - Work at heights with no fear. - Determines type of scaffold needed and how to properly instruct on how to install. - Oversight of transport tubular scaffold or other structural material and erects the scaffold as instructed by the scaffold builder. - Hoists scaffolding materials upward in order to erect temporary structure. - Properly secures and levels locking sections of scaffolding material. - Properly secures scaffold to the permanent structure for added stability. - Adheres to all OSHA, site specific and Austin Industrial requirements for the erecting and navigation of the scaffolding. - Supervises the dismantling of scaffolding when it has been properly communicated to do so. - Inspects and properly stows scaffolding material after dismantling. - Performs final inspection of completed scaffolding. - Other duties as assigned. - Applicants must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States. Austin Industries is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position **Qualifications Required for this Position:** **Education:** no minimum education requirements. **Experience:** 4 years of Journeyman-level experience. **Certification/License**: NCCER, a Valid Driver’s License, and a TWIC Card **Physical, Mental & Environmental Requirements** Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position. Employees must be able to sit, stand, walk, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach, and use hands and fingers to perform assigned duties. Positions may require lifting, carrying, pushing, or pulling up to 50 pounds, working at elevations, on uneven surfaces, or in confined spaces. Employees must possess sufficient visual, hearing, communication, and motor skills to safely perform job responsibilities. Employees must be able to read, comprehend, and follow safety procedures, work instructions, and company policies; exercise sound judgment; solve problems; maintain attention to detail; effectively manage stress; and adapt to changing priorities in a fast-paced work environment. Work may be performed in industrial and construction environments with exposure to weather conditions, temperature extremes, noise, dust, fumes, moving equipment, vibration, and other site-specific hazards. Employees must be able to wear required personal protective equipment (PPE) and meet all customer, site, regulatory, medical, and fitness-for-duty requirements applicable to the position. Must be able to perform all job duties while maintaining a constant commitment to safety, quality, and productivity expectations. **Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.** *See* the “Know Your Rights” poster available in [English](https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12.pdf) and [Spanish](https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRightsSp6.12.pdf). **No Third-Party Inquiries Please** This Company does not accept and will not consider unsolicited resumes or any other unsolicited candidate information submitted to the Company or any of its employee-owners by staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters in response to a posted vacancy. The Company will not pay any placement fee(s) withou…