Utility Flagger

Utility Flagger

Reporting to the Foreman, you will direct traffic through construction zones using handheld signs in addition to traffic barricades and cones to keep motorists, pedestrians, and construction workers safe. What you'll do includes placing signs, barricades, and traffic cones, following all safety precautions to protect motorists and construction workers, coordinating traffic signals with construction crews and other flaggers, loading and unloading equipment and materials, and other tasks as requested by leadership. What you'll have is general knowledge of construction-related equipment, skill to complete work safely in close proximity to active roads, commitment to doing quality work while putting safety first. What you'll get includes weekly payroll, on-the-job training for technical skills, employee assistance program benefit, health insurance plan benefit, and retirement plan benefit. Work sites are outdoors in potentially extreme weather conditions. All worksite safety instructions are written and spoken in English; must be fluent in English. Work includes prolonged and repeated: lifting (including overhead, up to 50lbs); standing; climbing; kneeling; reaching and feeling; crouching and crawling. Flexibility to work various schedules and stay late when necessary with little or no notice. Work is performed within the "red zone" of heavy equipment. Working safely requires quick/accurate hand-eye coordination and the ability to work in a constant state of alertness and safe manner. Legal stuff includes passing pre-employment, random, post-accident, and reasonable suspicion drug screens, providing valid US work authorization documents for E-Verify, satisfactory results of pre-employment background check results, valid driver's license with clean driving record, pre-employment medical fit-for-duty test; hold/obtain DOT medical card, and join and maintain Union membership. Centuri and its subsidiary companies will provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, gender, genetic information, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other status protected by federal, state or local law. Centuri will provide reasonable accommodations to allow an applicant to participate in the hiring process if so requested. Centuri is a Department of Transportation regulated employer. Certain safety-sensitive positions are covered under the DOT Drug and Alcohol Testing Regulations, 49 CFR Part 40. It is important to note that marijuana remains a drug listed in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. It remains unacceptable for any safety-sensitive employee subject to drug testing under the company's Drug Free Workplace Policy to use or test positive for marijuana.