Benefits:
- Health
insurance and drug prescription plan free to employee
- Life
insurance
- Paid
holidays
- Generous
cash bonuses
- 401K
savings plan with company matched contributions
- Annual
catered family outing to Kennywood Park free to all employees
and their family members
Job
Duties:
As
a laborer, you will work with experience foremen who will teach
you the skilled trade of fence design and installation. You will
work with a wide variety of materials, including chain link, wood,
vinyl, ornamental iron and steel, guide rail, and special materials
and applications that the customer may require. Job sites will
include everything from people's homes to commercial businesses
and industrial sites. Because there are so many different products,
sites, and layouts, we require someone who is willing to learn
to work with new materials and tools. Because Metro Fence gets
a large amount of business from satisfied customers, we value
consistent, high quality work.
Duties
of a laborer working as a member of a crew will include the following
tasks:
Field
Layout
- Assist
in laying out the fence lines from a drawing, plot plan, and/or
property pins.
- Project
straight lines and perpendicular in the field.
- Use
a string line, sight poles, or "eyeball method" for placing
fence posts.
Post
Setting
- Dig
post holes with hand tools, power tools, and/or power equipment
according to Metro Fence quality standards. Do not take short
cuts and dig smaller or more shallow holes that could jeopardize
the strength and durability of the fence framework.
- Drive
posts with a hand pounder or pneumatic pounder.
- Prepare
concrete by hand or with a power mixer.
- Set
posts using concrete, tamped earth, or anchors according to
Metro Fence quality standards. Under no circumstances should
you take short cuts that will jeopardize the strength or durability
of the fence framework.
Chain
Link Fence, Wood Fence, PVC (Vinyl) Fence, Ornamental Fence
- Erect
different chain link fence framing schemes, including gate and
end bracing.
- Install
tension wires where applicable.
- Splice
chain link fabric and perform bias cutting.
- Stretch
chain link fabric on a straight run or on inside curves.
- Properly
tie in fabric according to Metro Fence quality standards.
- Perform
assembly of wood fence in the shop or in the field, always following
Metro Fence quality standards for workmanship.
- Assist
in assembly of chain link, wood, PVC, and ornamental gates.
- Perform
basic assembly and erection of PVC and ornamental fence.
Tools:
Metro
Fence Company, Inc. supplies all the tools and equipment you need
to do your job safely and with high quality. At Metro Fence, we
believe in buying the best equipment, and we depend on our employees
to maintain the equipment and use it appropriately to prolong
its useful life. Tools that are well maintained and used properly
can make your work significantly easier.
You
will be required to learn to use some or all of the tools listed
below:
Hand
Tools
Fence
pliers, hog ring pliers, digging bars, post hole diggers, shovels,
carpenters square, tape measures (25', 100', 300'), levels, hacksaws,
bowsaws, files, wrenches, vise and vise grips, pipe cutters, post
drivers, cable pullers, pull jacks, spreaders and eveners, wire
dogs, line levels, truss rod benders, post pullers.
Power
Tools & Equipment
Compound
mitre saw, horizontal band saw, chain saw, circular saw, reciprocating
saw, pipe notcher, air compressor, concrete mixer, drill press,
pedestal grinder, generator, cordless screw gun, electric drill,
pneumatic nailer, portable band saw, router, pneumatic post driver,
jack hammer. Prime mover, forklift, auger, core drill.
Minimum
Required Qualifications:
- Courtesy
to customers.
- Ability
to relate to customers regarding installation particulars.
- Read
labels and follow both verbal and written instructions.
- Ability
and desire to perform physical labor outdoors. To maintain a
steady pace of hard work during an eight hour or more day during
hot, mild, and cold weather.
- Ability
to calculate basic arithmetic required for installations, such
as reading a measuring tape and level, converting fractions
to decimals and decimals to fractions, performing addition,
subtraction, multiplication, and division.
- Valid
drivers license.
- Ability
or willingness to learn to safely operate vehicles and machines
such as an auger, chain saw, cut off saw, pounder, welder, forklift,
or prime mover.
- Mobility
for pushing, pulling, bending, and stooping, and pushing a wheel
barrow.
- Ability
to lift up to 100 pounds.
- Ability
to climb ladders to heights of 25 feet.
- Manual
dexterity with hand tools such as pliers and hammers.
Applications:
Applications
are now being accepted at
Metro
Fence Company, Inc.
2111
Montour West Industrial Boulevard
or
via fax at 724-695-8653,
or call Cindy at 724-695-8650.
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