Building awareness of careers in construction, energy, and manufacturing for women.

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WISE Pathways Women in Sustainable Employment

• Building awareness of careers in construction,
  energy, and manufacturing for women.

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Construction Careers
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Construction Top Careers

• Damage Prevention Technician/Utility Locator
  (Average Salary xx,xxx)
• Field Positions (Average Salary 15.38 per hour)
• Quality Auditor (Average Salary 15.38 per hour)
• Truck Driver (Average Salary 15.38 per hour)

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Construction Worker What do you do?

• Sample Job Posting
• Three years of construction experience
• Driving record with no more than 2 points in the
  past three years
• Ability and willingness to work 60 feet in the
  air
• Ability and willingness to travel statewide
• Must be able to lift 60 pounds repetitively
  throughout the work day
• Must be able to read and write
• Has to have their own reliable transportation
• Must be able to secure a class A CDL within
  three months of hiring date
• Must have temporary CDL license prior to hiring
  date
• Excellent communication skills a plus
• Equipment operation experience a plus
• Personal tools will be required

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Damage Protection Technician/Utility Locator
What do you do?

• Close out evacuation notices both during normal
  hours and after hours
• Read and interpret utility maps
• Operate electronic detection equipment to locate
  and mark underground facilities
• Perform light excavation
• Provide accurate documentation and/or sketches
  related to all locates completed

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Damage Protection Technician/Utility Locator
What do you do?

• Receive and respond to excavation notices during
  normal and after hours
• Operate company vehicle in a safe manner and
  maintain professional appearance
• Perform manhole entry using assigned equipment
  and safety devices
• Perform work in all weather conditions, during
  normal and after hours

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UtiliQuest

• UtiliQuest, LLC is a leading provider of facility
  locating and infrastructure protection services.
  UtiliQuest helps its clients focus on their core
  competencies while reducing damages to their
  underground plant and lowering their overall cost
  of owning distribution facilities.
• For over three decades, UtiliQuest has been
  locating underground utility lines and offering
  value-added services to major utility and
  telecommunication companies across the United
  States. Over this time, weve been named an
  industry leader, nationally recognized for our
  prompt, accurate, and high-quality locating
  services. Our responsibility is not merely to
  meet, but to exceed our customers expectations
  for quality, professionalism, and value.

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UtiliQuest Benefits

• Group Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
  (Affordable access to high quality plans,
  customized per employee)
• 401K (Matching contributions made each week)
• Life Insurance (Company-paid and supplemental
  available)
• Short Term Long Term Disability
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Vacations/Holiday
• On-Call Compensation

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Field Positions What do you do?

• Comprehend specific directions, all of which must
  be followed to ensure safe and OSHA-compliant
  practices
• Provide standards-compliant construction and
  services
• Perform work in the red zone of heavy
  equipment, and in all sorts of environments,
  conditions, weather and seasons, and consists of
  medium to heavy work with prolonged and
  repeated lifting (including overhead, up to
  50lbs) standing climbing kneeling reaching
  and feeling crouching and crawling.

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Quality Auditor What do you do?

• Ensure that all safety and quality procedures are
  implemented and enforced
• Provide training, new hire orientations, OQ
  training, driver training, and customer training
• Perform accident/incident investigations in the
  area of motor vehicle, general liability, and
  workers compensation claims
• Analyze and resolve safety and quality issues

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Quality Auditor What do you do?

• Maintain, fill out, and submit required paperwork
  in accordance with company and customer
  requirements
• When there is a Quality Auditor and an Area
  Safety Director for one area, the Quality Auditor
  should spend approximately 40 of the time
  dealing with paperwork and conducting training
  and 60 of the time in the field.

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Truck Driver What do you do?

• Under general supervision, transport
  construction equipment and materials, including
  aggregate, all in accordance with
  company-required policies and procedures (such as
  vehicle checks) as will ensure compliance with
  DOT regulations
• Requires a valid drivers license, CDL Class A
  license, tanker endorsement, clean driving
  record, and the ability to operate commercial
  vehicles

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Truck Driver What do you do?

• Work occurs within the red zone of heavy
  equipment, and is performed in all sorts of
  environments, conditions, weather, and seasons
• Must be knowledgeable of DOT regulations as well
  as able to understand and follow safe and
  OSHA-compliant practices

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NPL

• NPL is a nationally recognized leader in pipeline
  construction, with over 40 years experience in
  building energy-distribution systems and with
  nearly 3,000 highly-trained employees working
  across America.
• Dedication to safe operations, commitment to
  quality and maintaining reliable equipment,
  striving for innovation and improvement, staying
  on top of the latest technology, meeting customer
  deadlines, and continually looking for
  opportunities to reduce our customers' total
  cost.

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NPL Benefits

• Pre-employment drug screen
• DOT physical

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WorkKeys Reading for Information

• Level 3 Reading materials are short simple and
  include basic company policies, procedures, and
  announcements tells readers what to do
  information is stated clearly items focus on the
  main points of the passage

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WorkKeys Reading for Information

• Level 4 Similar to Level 3 but sentences are
  longer and have more details, have harder words,
  may include several steps when following
  procedures, must think about changing conditions
  and how it would affect what you should do

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WorkKeys Reading for Information

• Level 5 Policies, procedures, and announcements
  include all information needed to complete a
  task materials have many details includes
  jargon, technical terms, acronyms and words that
  have several meanings application of information
  given in the passage to a situation no
  specifically described in passage several
  considerations need to taken into account to
  choose correct action

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WorkKeys Reading for Information

• Level 6 Reading includes elaborate procedures,
  complicated information, and legal regulations
  found in workplace documents complicated
  sentences with difficult words, jargon and
  technical terms most of the information needed
  is not stated

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WorkKeys Reading for Information

• Level 7 Complex materials information very
  detailed complicated concepts, difficult
  vocabulary uses unusual jargon and technical
  terms writing lacks clarity and direction must
  draw conclusions from some parts of the reading
  and apply them in other parts

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Building awareness of careers in construction
and energy for women.
Support for this revised version of the WISE
Pathways course is provided by a partnership with
the Center for Energy Workforce Development
(CEWD) and the Green Workforce Initiative at the
Industry-Business Institute, Union County
College, NJ.