Concrete Finisher - Kent Companies

Summary
The experienced finisher is expected to perform all parts of the process: grading, set up, custom formwork, concrete placement, cleaning tools, stripping formwork, and cutting slabs. An experienced finisher has noteworthy flatwork experience and demonstrates the ability to finish virtually any commercial concrete pour. Understanding the many variables affecting the finishing process is critical to success. An experienced finisher can effectively use all hand tools, including various finish trowels, floats, and brooms or rakes, to achieve a specified finish. Understanding and proficiently using specialized machines to expedite the finishing process is critical to this role. Communicating effectively with supervisors, teammates, and other trades is expected, as well as providing training and development to teammates who demonstrate motivation and interest in advancing their skills.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Pour, level, and finish freshly placed concrete.
• Understand and achieve specified finishes, with attention to detail and quality.
• Wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE), including a hard hat, high-visibility apparel, and additional protection as required by the task.
• Communicate effectively with your crew lead, foreman, and superintendent on safety, quality specifications, and problem-solving.
• Safely perform labor tasks on concrete construction sites, including using power and standard hand tools.
• Utilize measurement and carpentry skills to build custom formwork.
• Moving materials by hand, preparing for concrete placement, installation of shoring, and maintaining clean, well-organized job sites.
• Setting and placing forms, building and dismantling formwork, erecting and dismantling shoring, and placing concrete into forms.
• Utilize elevation specifications to accurately set up a laser leveling system and establish grade and grade lines.
• Uses and monitors quality and production of straight edge and “magic screed” to level/shape freshly poured concrete.
• Finishes slab edges using hand tools.
• Assists with truck chute and pump hose to place fresh concrete.
• Operates forklifts (with certification) to convey concrete finishing equipment between trucks, floor slabs, and decks during and after the concrete finishing process.
• Operates light and advanced equipment (e.g., truss-type hardener spreader, truss screeds, bull floats, lifting equipment, etc.) to level and treat concrete slab surfaces.
• Operates at advanced level trowel machinery and equipment in the concrete finishing process.
• Cleans and properly maintains all hand and power tools used to place and finish fresh concrete.

Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties and Responsibilities are not comprehensive and can be changed at any time, with or without notice

Required Experience, Education, and Qualifications

• 2-4+ years of consistent concrete finishing experience.
• Leather work boots (steel or composite toe protection are recommended)
• Rubber boots
• Hand Tools
• Hammer
• Hammer Loop/Holster
• Measuring Tape
• Speed Square
• Finishing Trowels
• Utility Knives
• Must have a valid driver’s license and reliable transportation to the workplace(s)/ job location(s).
• Ability to pass drug screening.

Preferred education and experience

• OSHA 10 or OSHA 30.
• Proficiency with finishing machines such as a power trowel.
• Certification in equipment operations such as telehandlers and aerial lifts.
• Forklift Certification
• Layout Ability – Understand how to read and interpret construction drawings and use such information to install bulkheads, embedded items, and box-outs correctly.

Benefits
Kent Companies provides its employees with one of the most competitive compensation and benefits packages in the construction industry. Benefits vary by location, with a fully customized benefits package presented upon hire. Typical benefits packages include:

• Weekly pay
• PTO (Paid Time Off)
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
• Supplemental insurance options
• Retirement plans with discretionary employer-matching
• Holiday pay (New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day)
• Scholarship opportunities for dependents
• Leadership development opportunities

Work Environment/Physical Demand

• Ability to lift 80 lbs.
• Work in a variable environment, including, but not limited to, high/low temperatures, areas close to traffic, loud and frequent noises, confined spaces, heights, and indoor/outdoor settings.
• This position often requires climbing, kneeling, bending, and crawling and the ability to work on ladders, platforms, and mechanical lifts.

Position type and expected hours of work.
This is a full-time field position. Typical hours will range from 45-50 hours per week and are subject to change. This role requires working nontypical days and irregular hours based on construction schedules.

Travel
This position reports directly to each job site and requires personal transportation.

Office Location
1223 Quarry Overlook Drive, Fort Mill, SC 29715

Perks associated with this role
Our goal is to offer an unparalleled career progression that is not precisely pre-determined but builds on the teammate’s strengths, interests, and pursuits as the individual gains experience, grows, and develops in their career. You would be hard-pressed to find another ENR Top 6 Commercial Concrete Company that parallels Kent Companies.

About Kent Companies
Kent Companies is a full-service specialty trade contractor with operations across Michigan, Texas, Ohio, and the Carolinas. As a third-generation, family-owned business, we believe our people are our greatest assets. We employ over 2,000 trade professionals nationwide and deliver every project with our Four Hallmarks: Safety, Productivity, Quality, and Customer Service. Kent Companies is known as The Leaders in Concrete™ and continuously ranks in the Top 10 Concrete Contractors nationwide by ENR Magazine.

Kent Companies’ family of brands includes Kent Concrete, Kent Underlayments, Kent Facilities, Kent Foundation Solutions, and Foundation Rescue Supply.

Kent Concrete
We deliver comprehensive, turnkey concrete construction services for customers nationwide. Our services include structural concrete, tilt-up concrete, concrete paving, curb and gutter, and concrete pumping. From the most complex cast-in-place structures to mission-critical facilities, our customers turn to us because they know we’ll deliver the horsepower and expertise to get the job done.

About Kent Companies Carolinas Commercial Concrete Division
Kent Concrete operates a Charlotte-based commercial, multifamily, and structural division. This team delivers comprehensive, turnkey concrete packages for our customers. Our crews perform a variety of scopes including foundations, slabs, Ductilcrete®, tilt-up, and structural cast-in-place concrete. With this team, you’ll have a hand in the projects that change Charlotte and the Southeast region. Learn more about Kent Concrete by visiting concrete.kentcompanies.com.

EEO Statement
At Kent Companies, we value a diverse, inclusive workforce and we provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. Kent Companies’ does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all employment practices and personnel actions, including but not limited to hiring, recruiting, promotions, performance evaluations, termination, and compensation decisions.

The Company will strive to ensure that all employees and prospective employees will be treated equally in regard to recruitment, employment, promotions, demotions, discipline, termination, access to benefits and training, leaves of absence and layoffs. The Company will further ensure that its management staff is aware of the Company’s commitment to this policy and each member understands their individual role in the process of administering this plan.

Kent Companies will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship.