SIPA Multicraft- Austin Industrial; ton, NM

About Austin Industrial Austin Industrial delivers premier maintenance, construction, and soft craft services to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries. Our team of 4,000 employee‑owners, equipped with innovative technology and optimized procedures, helps owners optimize safety, productivity, profit margins, and cost efficiency.

Austin Industrial is seeking an experienced SIPA Multicraft to support maintenance and project activities at our client site in Lovington, NM. This role involves the construction, assembly, maintenance, modification, and dismantling of tubular scaffolding and other temporary structures used to support refinery maintenance and operational needs.

• Construct, assemble, maintain, modify, and dismantle tubular scaffolding and related temporary structures.
• Interpret scaffold design plans, load requirements, and site conditions to ensure safe and compliant installation.
• Inspect all scaffold components for damage, defects, or improper fit prior to use.
• Ensure all scaffolds meet OSHA, site‑specific, and Austin Industrial safety requirements.
• Install ladders, guardrails, platforms, toe boards, ties, bracing, and decking.
• Assist with material handling, staging, and transport of scaffold components.
• Communicate with supervisors, craft workers, and site personnel to ensure scaffolding needs are met efficiently.
• Maintain a clean, safe, and organized work environment.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, talk or hear, and taste or smell.

The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and may frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

• 2–3 years of experience as a Journeyman Scaffold Builder.
• Strong working knowledge of tubular scaffolding systems used in refinery and heavy‑industrial environments.
• Ability to interpret scaffold drawings and follow engineered scaffold plans.
• Strong understanding of industrial and refinery safety practices, including fall protection and load limits.

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• 2–3 years’ experience in scaffolding preferred.
• Must pass a drug screen and background check as a condition of employment.
• Meet the physical demands listed above.
• Applicants must be legally authorized to work for any employer in the United States.
• Austin is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.

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