Offshore Scaffold builder at Bilfinger Inc. – Broussard, Louisiana

Offshore Scaffold Builder - Broussard Louisiana

Position 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.