Grade Checker (PHX)

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The Grade Checker is responsible for safely measuring and setting grade stakes to guide earth moving equipment in sloping highway, excavation and fill embankment operations.

Essential Job Accountabilities

• Reads and understands survey stakes, blueprints, sketches, and drawings to determine grade specifications required for fill, sloping or excavation operations.
• Reads, measures, and sets grade stakes, along highway right-of-way to determine grade specifications in sloping highways and fill embankments utilizing survey and/or measuring instruments and hand tools. 
• Measures horizontally and vertically, in specified ratio, from survey stake to juncture of embankment and initial excavation, utilizing survey and/or measuring instruments, GPS equipment, hand tools, and eye level.
• Observe excavating activities to verify conformance to stake references and notify equipment operators and supervision of deviations.
• Inspect, clean, and maintain tools, equipment, and machinery.
• Perform job site clean-up and maintain job site free of hazards. 
• May perform traffic control, including flagging. 
• May perform a variety of physical tasks including but not limited to operating equipment and machinery.
• Perform other duties as required.

Education

• High School Diploma, GED or equivalent years of experience, preferred.

Work Experience

• (2) years+ of grade checking experience, required.
• Grade or pave experience with understanding of grading, drainage, survey staking.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Ability to communicate effectively.
• Ability to work, day, swing, and nights shifts (occasionally extended hours).
• Ability to work in constant exposure to outside elements, in all weather conditions.
• Ability to work in safety sensitive construction setting, including exposure to moving machinery and heavy equipment.
• Ability to work collaborative with a team in a fast-paced and complex environment.
• Ability to squat, crawl, and work in awkward positions/confined spaces. 

Physical Demands

• Physical dexterity, stamina, and excellent hand-eye coordination with ability to grasp, assemble and lift objects, stand, sit, and walk for extended periods over uneven surfaces, squat, bank, climb ladders onto equipment or other objects.
• Lifting, pushing, pulling of heavy items weighing up to 50 lbs. or more.