General Construction Laborer

**Job Title: General Construction Laborer**

**Job Description**

The General Equipment Mover will be responsible for uncrating and placing machinery used in the manufacturing of batteries. This role involves handling, moving, and setting up heavy equipment within a large manufacturing facility.

**Responsibilities**

+ Unload, load, and unstuff cargoes from trailers or shipping containers.

+ Uncrate, crate, unpack, pack, and move cargoes using manual or powered hand tools and material handling equipment.

+ Relocate and roughly set cargoes to designated locations on the production floor using manual or powered hand tools, manual toe jacks, material handling equipment like manual skates, dollies, pallet jacks, and forklifts.

**Essential Skills**

+ Previous experience in a labor-intensive role.

+ Ability to perform heavy lifting and physical labor tasks.

+ Strong attention to detail and ability to follow instructions accurately.

+ Must have or be willing to obtain an OSHA 10 certification.

**Additional Skills & Qualifications**

+ 1+ year of experience in construction or physical labor.

+ Ability to walk 10+ miles per day.

+ Capability to bend, crawl, and walk numerous times throughout the day.

+ Experience in operating forklifts, gradalls, or other lifts is a plus.

**Why Work Here?**

Join a dynamic team in a growing industry, where you will have the opportunity to work with advanced machinery in a large-scale manufacturing environment. Enjoy a supportive work culture that values hard work and dedication.

**Work Environment**

Work within a manufacturing facility that spans 2 million square feet. The role involves both indoor and outdoor material moving in a non-climate controlled, hot environment. Standard working hours are from 7 AM to 5:30 PM, Monday to Friday, with occasional overtime on Saturdays.

**Job Type & Location**

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of De Soto, Kansas.

**About Aerotek:**

We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow.

Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.