Excavation Laborer
hace 20 días
Medford
Job Description Job Posting: Excavation Laborer Company: Seylone Location: Long Island, NY (regional work across NY, NJ, CT, PA, DE) Employment Type: Full-Time Compensation: $25 to $35 per hour, based on experience, licenses, and certifications About Seylone: Seylone is a leading construction and consulting firm, specializing in advanced geotechnical and environmental services such as test pits and borings. Our commitment to excellence, innovation, and safety has made us a preferred partner for the industry's top engineering and development firms. By delivering comprehensive solutions and supporting the foundation of significant projects, Seylone plays a crucial role in the construction and consulting landscape. Position Overview: Seylone is seeking an Excavation Laborer to join our test pit and utility locating crews. This is a hands-on field position digging test pits, exposing utilities, probing structures, coring and sawcutting concrete, and restoring surfaces on job sites across the New York metro area/Mid-Atlantic for public agencies and prime engineering firms. Our work is subsurface investigation: we open the ground so engineers can see what is there, document it, and close it back up as if we were never there. You need to know how to dig. That means hand digging around live utilities with a shovel, bar, and post hole digger, working in tight pits next to gas, electric, water, steam, and telecom, operating a vacuum excavation (soft dig) unit, and working with the machine operator to open, clean, square up, and close a pit the right way. You need to understand how to dig to a target without damaging it, how to recognize a utility, a duct bank, a footing, or a change in soil when you see it, and how to tell the crew lead what you found. You also need to be able to drive. Crew members drive company pickups, vans, and support trucks to and from job sites every day, so a valid license, a clean record, and a willingness to drive are required. A CDL is a plus and will be compensated for accordingly. Shoring experience is preferred, since many of our pits go deep enough to require it. Knowing how to read plans is a huge plus: utility record plates, test pit location plans, site plans, and survey layouts are what we work from, and a laborer who can look at a plan, find the pit location, and understand what we are expected to hit and at what depth is far more valuable to the crew than one who waits to be pointed at a spot. This is local and regional work out of our yard in Medford, NY. Most days you are home at night. Some projects outside the metro area will require you to be away for a few days at a time, and Seylone covers hotel accommodations for that travel. Early starts, roadway work under maintenance and protection of traffic, and occasional night or weekend shifts for agency work are part of the job. What matters most to us: Safety. We dig around live utilities every day, often in the street, often at night, often for public agencies with their own safety requirements on top of ours. Nothing gets opened without confirmed markouts, nothing gets advanced near a utility without hand digging or soft dig, nothing deeper than it should be is entered without protection, and nobody gets in a hole the crew lead has not cleared. We expect you to know the basics of excavation safety, to speak up when something is not right, and to stop work if you have to. A safe day is the only good day. No sloppy work. A pit that is dug fast and restored poorly, a trench box set wrong, a truck left a mess, tools left on site, a surface patched so it fails in a month: all of it reflects on the crew and on Seylone. We expect clean, careful, consistent work from the first cone to the last one picked up. Respect on site. You will work next to client engineers, resident inspectors, agency representatives, utility company personnel, and other trades. We expect you to treat all of them, and your own crew, with professionalism and respect, to take direction from the crew lead and the client's field representative, and to represent Seylone the way we want to be represented. Key Responsibilities: • Hand dig and assist with machine excavation of test pits to expose utilities, foundations, footings, and subsurface conditions, • Operate vacuum excavation (soft dig) equipment to locate and expose utilities without damage, • Install, inspect, and remove trench boxes, hydraulic shoring, and other protective systems in accordance with OSHA excavation requirements and under the direction of the competent person, • Locate test pits in the field from plans, stakeout, and markouts, and confirm the location with the crew lead before opening, • Identify utilities, structures, and soil conditions encountered in the pit and report them to the crew lead, engineer, or inspector, • Assist with structural probing, concrete coring, and sawcutting as assigned, • Assist with localized dewatering and handling of impacted soils in lined containers, • Backfill in lifts, compact, and restore surfaces including asphalt, concrete, pavers, and landscaped areas in kind to match existing conditions, • Place and secure road plates on roadway pits, • Drive company pickups, vans, and support trucks to and from job sites and maintain them in clean, serviceable condition, • Load, secure, and transport tools, materials, and equipment, and keep the truck stocked for the next day, • Set up and maintain work zone protection, cones, barricades, and signage, • Keep the site clean, organized, and safe throughout the day and leave every location properly restored, • Inspect hand and power tools and small equipment before use and report defects, • Participate in daily safety briefings, toolbox talks, and job hazard analyses, and follow all site specific and client safety requirements, • Work professionally and respectfully with crew members, engineers, inspectors, agency representatives, and utility personnel, • Work outdoors in a variety of site and weather conditions Skills & Qualifications: • Minimum 2 years of hands-on excavation or construction labor experience - Required, • Ability to hand dig and work in pits for extended periods - Required, • Valid driver's license with clean driving record and willingness to drive company vehicles daily - Required, • OSHA 10 - Required (OSHA 30 preferred), • Understanding of excavation safety fundamentals: markouts, tolerance zones, soil classification, sloping and benching, protective systems, and access and egress - Required, • Must be based on Long Island, NY or able to report daily to our yard in Medford, NY - Required, • Ability to read plans, including utility record plates, test pit location plans, site plans, and survey layouts - Strongly Preferred, • Shoring and trench protection experience - Preferred, • CDL (Class A or B) - Preferred, • 40-Hour HAZWOPER - Preferred, or willingness to obtain, • Vacuum excavation (soft dig) experience - Preferred, • Experience with asphalt and concrete restoration - Preferred, • Experience working in roadways under maintenance and protection of traffic - Preferred, • OSHA Excavation Competent Person training - Preferred, • Confined Space, Flagger, Fall Protection, First Aid and CPR - Preferred, • SWAC or TWIC - Preferred, • Comfortable with hand and power tools and small equipment such as plate compactors, jumping jacks, demo saws, and core drills, • Ability to lift and carry 50 to 75 pounds repeatedly throughout the day and work on your feet in all weather, • Reliable, punctual, and able to work early starts, occasional extended days, and occasional night or weekend shifts, • Professional, even-tempered, and respectful toward crew members, inspectors, engineers, and clients, • Willing to take ownership of assigned work and grow with the company Why Join Seylone? Becoming a part of Seylone means joining a team that is at the cutting edge of construction and consulting services. We are a growing company with steady work from established clients, which means real opportunity to move up into operator, foreman, or drilling roles for anyone who earns it. We offer competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and a dynamic work environment that fosters professional growth. Our collaboration with leading engineering and development firms provides our team members with unparalleled opportunities to contribute to significant projects and make a lasting impact in the industry. Application Process: To apply, please submit a resume. Include your driver's license class and any endorsements, shoring or excavation experience, plan reading experience, and any relevant certifications and references. Seylone is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
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