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Concrete Laborer/Finisher

Stephens & Smith Construction Co., Inc.
Lincoln, NE Full Time
POSTED ON 12/8/2025 CLOSED ON 12/18/2025

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Concrete Laborer/Finisher position at Stephens & Smith Construction Co., Inc.?

Stephens & Smith Construction Flatworks Division is currently seeking a full-time dynamic and motivated Concrete Finisher/Laborer professional to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the proper finishing, texturing, and smoothing of concrete surfaces. Your expertise in concrete placement and finishing techniques will be vital in delivering high-quality results. The ideal candidate should possess a strong work ethic, attention to detail, and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.

Key Responsibilities

  • Prepare work areas by cleaning, leveling, and removing debris to ensure proper formwork placement.
  • Measurement, Layout, and Planning: Accurately measuring materials, calculating dimensions, and planning the layout of structures to ensure precise cuts and proper fit.
  • Operate grading equipment, including motor graders and laser-guided grading systems, to accurately level and shape surfaces for flatwork construction.
  • Clear and prepare work areas, removing debris, vegetation, and obstacles that may impede the grading process.
  • Set up and prepare the work area by clearing debris, ensuring proper alignment of forms, and establishing appropriate spacing and placement for rebar.
  • Position and secure rebar within concrete forms, ensuring proper spacing, alignment, and overlap as per design requirements.

Preferred (Not Required) Talents

  • Attention to detail and commitment to ensuring high-quality workmanship
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with colleagues, supervisors, and other tradespeople.
  • Flexibility and adaptability to adjust to changing project needs and priorities

Physical Demands

Continually 70-100% Regularly 50-70%

Periodically 20-50% Rarely - less than 20%

  • Continually endures persistent standing and walking.
  • Rarely sitting.
  • Continually required to reach with hands and arms.
  • Continually required to speak and listen.
  • Continually required to stoop and kneel.
  • Continually spends time working outdoors and traveling in all weather conditions.
  • Regularly working in awkward positions; stooping and reaching; being exposed to dust, dirt, fumes, noise, and sludge and climbing up and down ladders and equipment.
  • Periodically lifting up to 100 lbs.
  • Regular exposure to moving mechanical parts and chemicals, etc. Chemicals will be handled according to Company policy and Safety Data Sheets (SDS).
  • Periodically exposed to heights and ability to transfer to other divisions to work on heights.
  • Continually working with high noise levels and significant vibration associated with the equipment/tools, and jobsite environmental conditions.
  • Regularly works under pressure meeting project schedules and budget guidelines.
  • Continually work with diversified work groups and at times confronts and manages aggressive personalities.
  • Continually able to work eight (8) to ten (10) hour work days each week and occasional weekends.
  • Continually utilize specific vision abilities required to perform the essential functions of the job, i.e., close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Qualifications

  • At least one to two years of prior experience working in the Flatwork industry.

Stephens & Smith offers a $3,500 hiring bonus, competitive wages, health and dental insurance, 401(k) and is an employee owned company- Join our team and become an OWNER!

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disabled and veterans.

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