Multi-Craft/Scaffold Lead (Lugoff, SC) - Austin Industrial at Austin Maintenance & Construction, Inc. in Camden, South Carolina

Job Description:

Austin Industrial delivers premier maintenance, construction, and soft craft services to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries. Our team of 4,000 employee-owners, equipped with innovative technology and optimized procedures, helps owners optimize safety, productivity, profit margins, and cost-efficiency.

Scaffold Builder Lead

The Scaffold Builder role gives you the opportunity to work in the construction, assembly, maintenance, and dismantling of tubular scaffolding or other temporary structures. Other duties may be assigned.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Must have certification in Asbestos Abatement.


• Determines type of scaffold needed.


• Inspects job site and all scaffold material for defects and safety hazards.


• Effectively communicates safety hazards and mitigates avoidable hazards prior to construction of scaffolding.


• Transports tubular scaffold or other structural material and erects the scaffold to the dimensions required.


• 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.


• Adheres to all OSHA, site specific and Austin Industrial requirements for the erecting and navigation of the scaffolding.


• Performs final inspection of completed scaffolding.


• Dismantles scaffolding when it has been properly communicated to do so.


• Inspects and properly stows scaffolding material after dismantling.


• Must be able to test, calibrate, troubleshoot, overhaul and repair controlling, indicating and measuring instrumentation devices to ensure specified operating performance using hand tools, testing and calibrating instruments and equipment and precision measuring instruments.


• Must be able to perform work wearing personnel protective equipment. Including but not limited to the following: rain gear, chemical protective clothing, supplied air and air purifying respirators, safety harness, sand blast hoods, fire resistant coveralls, hard hat, ear plugs and safety glasses.


• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to have full range of mobility in upper and lower body, able to reach overhead, able to work in various positions, including, but not limited to, stooping, standing, bending over, sitting, kneeling, squatting; use hands to handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; work at heights; balance for extended periods of time.


• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications Required for this Position:

Education: no minimum education requirements.

Experience: 2-3 years of experience as a Lead Journeyman Scaffold Builder; required.

Must pass drug screen and background check, as a condition of employment.

We offer excellent benefits including medical, dental, life and disability insurance, and a matching 401K plan. We are proud to be a 100% Employee-Owned Company (ESOP)! To learn more about Austin, please go to https://www.austin-ind.com/our-company/who-we-are.  

An equal employment opportunity employer

Austin ("The Company") is an equal employment opportunity employer. The Company's policy prohibits discrimination against any applicant or employee based on race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age (40 and over), disability, military status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. The Company also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. It is also the Company's policy to comply with all federal, state and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions.

Become an owner

Unlike other companies that may be privately or publicly held, Austin is 100% owned by our employees. It's a source of pride for everyone one of our 5,700+ employee-owners that we have vested interest in the day-to-day success of our company. We share Austin's growth and profitability and are accountable to ourselves for doing everything it takes to serve our customers with excellence and to make Austin the best it can be. After all, We Own It. Learn more at www.austin-ind.com.

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