Shop Hands

Purpose:

To help co-workers (tong operators, tong mechanics, and bucking operators) by performing assistance duties. These duties include but are not limited to: supplying materials and tools, maintaining a clean work area, and ensuring equipment is free of defects and fully operational, in accordance with all applicable specifications.

Duties:

- Help assistant tong mechanics and welders with repair, maintenance, service, and fabrication of equipment as needed.

- Examine equipment to verify conformance to all applicable quality and regulatory standards.

- Observe equipment testing so malfunctions can be detected.

- Lift and transport equipment or materials manually, by forklift or by using hoists.

- Help ensure that job orders are complete.

- Load and unload equipment in direct compliance with all safety standards.

- Clean and maintain equipment and work areas.

- Document information, such as the number of equipment tested and dates and times of maintenance.

- Handle and move objects by using hands and arms to install, position, and move materials and equipment.

- Identify information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences and/or similarities, and detecting changes in situations or events.

- Inspect equipment and materials to identify errors and/or other problems.

- Provide daily required information to supervisors and co-workers by telephone, in written form, and/or in person.

- Run, maneuver, navigate, or drive approved equipment safely when applicable.

- Assess the value, importance, and quality of tasks and objectives in accordance with all safety policies.

- Perform all other company duties as required by owners/ management.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

- Manual Dexterity — The ability to quickly move hands, move hands together with arms, and grasp, manipulate, and assemble objects.

- Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).

- Strength — The ability to use abdominal and lower back muscles to support the body repeatedly or continuously over time without fatigue for necessary daily job duties.

- Arm-Hand Steadiness — The ability to keep hands and arms steady while in one position.

- Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that a problem potentially exists.

- Multi-limb Coordination — The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down.

- Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

Work Context:

- ·Must wear common protective safety equipment, as required, such as: steel toe boots, safety glasses, regulatory compliant gloves, hearing protection, hard hats, life jackets, and flammable retardant clothing.

- Job duties mostly require standing, stooping, lifting, and other physical activities.

- This position requires mental awareness of potential safety hazards and potentially dangerous situations.

- It is the responsibility of all employees to immediately report a potential hazard to management immediately.

Physical Requirements:

· Ability to stand for long periods of time.

· Ability to move all extremities.

· Maintaining 20/20 vision or correctable equivalent.

· Maintaining good hearing or correctable equivalent.

· Ability to squat and lift 50 lbs.

· Must have equal bilateral grasps.

- Perform general physical activities that require the use of arms and legs and the ability to move the entire body for actions such as: climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials and equipment.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

- 401(k)

- 401(k) matching

- Dental insurance

- Health insurance

- Life insurance

- Vision insurance

Work Location: In person