Position: Concrete/GFRC Fabricator
Shift: 1
st
Shift
Wages: $18.00+ DOE
Summary
You'll work with castable materials to create forms,
part
, and molds, including spraying and pouring GFRC to create custom products, as well as performing hands-on fabrication to meet unique project specifications. You will use various processes to prepare, apply, inspect, and repair materials and products to ensure quality and structural integrity.
What You'll Do:
- Select and prepare molds or forms based on project requirements.
- Spray GFRC mix - made of cement, sand, water, and chopped fiberglass - onto prepared molds or forms.
- Roll or press layers of chopped fiberglass or fiberglass mat onto molds using hands or tools, ensuring smooth application by removing wrinkles and air bubbles.
- Spray and apply GFRC to achieve required thickness and structural integrity before curing.
- Apply releases or waxes to molds, to facilitate assembly and removal of laminated parts.
- Review dies, templates, and cut-out patterns to ensure adherence to blueprints, pictures, samples, and project specifications
- Inspect, clean, and prepare molds and work areas before each phase.
- Cure materials, using suitable methods like room temperature curing, heat lamps, or other techniques. Trim cured materials with specialized tools such as diamond-impregnated cutoff wheels.
- Ensure the quality and integrity of work performed.
- Set up and operate a GFRC spray gun.
Qualifications/Requirements
- Excellent work history
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Basic understanding of concrete application processes; training will be provided
- OSHA-10 certification.
- Preferred: Six months or more of related experience
- Combined education and experience will be considered
- Preferred: Construction experience and knowledge; forklift and light equipment operations experience; welding, concrete, fiberglass, and artistic experience
- Proficient in operating hand and power tools
- Able to read and interpret documents, e.g., maintenance instructions, layouts, blueprints, sketches, and schedules
- Effective communication ability, including verbal, listening, and written
- Solid teamwork abilities, and the ability to work independently
- Ability to work safely; OSHA safety experience/awareness
- Common sense, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills; strong attention to detail
- Ability to calculate figures and amounts including proportions, percentages, area, and circumference
- Able to operate equipment including hoists, rigging, forklift, and welding equipment.
- Understanding algebra and geometry with the ability to calculate figures and amounts including proportions, percentages, area, and circumference.
Physical
Requirements
- Strength and stamina, including regularly using hands to handle, or feel; regularly walk, stand, climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
- Must have close, distance, color, and peripheral vision; depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus
- Must lift 70 lbs. from floor to waist, 90 lbs. from waist to chest, and 25 lbs. chest to above head. Must carry 50 lbs. for 50 ft., push a 100 lb. wheeled cart for 100 ft., and drag 50 lbs. for 100 ft.
Work Environment
- Work is primarily performed in shop and storage yard settings with typical smells, sounds, and moderate to loud noise
- Exposure to the outdoors, possible toxic or caustic chemicals, fumes, or airborne particles, and moving mechanical parts
- Overtime may be required, depending on the project deadline
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