Offshore Scaffold Builder - Broussard LouisianaPosition Summary:A scaffold builder is responsible for building up and breaking down temporary scaffold structures. The optimal candidate will have a basic working knowledge of OSHA safety guidelines. Work locations may vary (offshore).
Duties and Responsibilities:- Must have good communication and network skills
- Must have good teamwork skills, ability to coordinate with different department heads within the company.
- Preferably to have a strong background in the Pipeline, Petrochemical and/or Oil & Gas Market Sectors
- Must have ability to perform various technical services while working on ropes.
- Scaffold builders are responsible assembling and dismantling scaffolding structures that allow workers to access specific portions of a building to perform needed work.
- Builds, positions, and dismantles wooden structures, such as concrete forms, scaffolds, tunnel and sewer supports, and temporary frame shelters, according to sketches, blueprints, or company standards.
- Craft who isn't afraid to climb, walk, and work at high elevations.
- Offshore Experience Required
- TWIC Card
- Safe Gulf
- Ensure that all procedures are understood prior to the start of work
- Complete all required planning, safety meetings and documentation, including work permits, job hazard analyses, safety meetings and rescue plans
- Ensure that the proper personal protective equipment (PPE) to be used
- Identify work zones and ensure the safety of any personnel or public who may enter these zones.
- Make certain that a prompt rescue of rope access personnel can be accomplished and that emergency services are available
- Make certain that all equipment on the work site is protected from damage and is maintained in a safe condition throughout the work
Basic Qualifications:- Work at heights with no fear.
- Examines, selects, and gathers materials and tools.
- Examines blueprints and specifications to determine dimensions of structure.
- Inspect base surface for obstructions.
- Climbing - frequent ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms up in excess of heights of 100 feet.
- Balancing - maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling and walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces.
- Stooping - bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist.
- Pushing - using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.
- Pulling - using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
- Lifting - raising objects in excess of 100 pounds from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position.
- Fine Manipulation - picking or pinching or otherwise working hands and fingers
- Able to perform very heavy work (exerting in excess of 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or in excess of 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or in excess of 20 pounds of force constantly to move object.
- Saws boards and plywood panels to required sizes.
- Uses carpentry hand tools such as hammers, levels, squares, screw drivers, adjustable wrenches, hand and power saws, drill motors and pry bars.
- Assembles scaffold containing handrails, mid rails, braces and planks, toe boards, screening, locking pins and wheels to job specifications.
- Loads, transports and unloads material.
- 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.
- 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.