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Full job description
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- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 30 to 40 hours per week
- Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience: 1 to less than 7 months
Work site environment
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- Outdoors
- At heights
- Confined spaces
- Noisy
- Dusty
Work setting
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- Willing to relocate
- Relocation costs covered by employer
- Room and board provided
- High-rise building construction sites
- Construction site
Tasks
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- Load, unload and transport construction materials
- Read blueprints to determine work requirements
- Erect and dismantle concrete forms, scaffolding, ramps, catwalks shoring and barricades
- Assist in drilling and blasting rock on construction sites
- Assist in demolishing buildings
- Perform routine maintenance work
- Remove rubble and other debris at construction sites
- Tend or feed machines or equipment used in construction
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
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- Working at heights training
Equipment and machinery experience
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- Nail guns
- Drills
- Forklift
- Hand tools
Construction specialization
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- Industrial, commercial and institutional
- Residential
- Roofing
Transportation/travel information
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- Own transportation
- Willing to travel
- Willing to travel regularly
- Willing to travel overnight
- Valid driver’s licence
Work conditions and physical capabilities
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- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Physically demanding
- Tight deadlines
- Manual dexterity
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Overtime required
Weight handling
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- More than 45 kg (100 lbs)
Own tools/equipment
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- Steel-toed safety boots
- Hard hat
- Safety glasses/goggles
- Gloves
- Uniform
- Ear plugs
- Safety vest
Personal suitability
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- Flexibility
- Team player
- Hardworking
Screening questions
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- Are you available for shift or on-call work?
- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Are you willing to relocate for this position?
- Do you currently reside in proximity to the advertised location?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
Workplace information
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- On the road job
Other benefits
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- Free parking available
- Variable or compressed work week
Support for newcomers and refugees
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- Provides diversity and cross-cultural trainings to create a welcoming work environment for newcomers and/or refugees
Support for youths
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- Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth
Supports for visible minorities
- Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities
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