Scaffold Builder- Austin Industrial (La Porte, TX)
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Job overview
Austin Industrial is hiring a Scaffold Builder to construct, assemble, maintain, inspect, and dismantle tubular scaffolding and other temporary structures. The role involves transporting and hoisting materials, securing scaffold sections and structures, and following OSHA, site-specific, and company requirements. Applicants must be legally authorized to work for any U.S. employer; the company does not offer visa sponsorship.
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Description
About Austin Industrial
Austin Industrial provides premier self-perform maintenance, construction, and soft craft service 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.
To learn more about us, visit https://www.austin-ind.com/what-we-do/industrial .
Scaffold Builder
This person will assist in the construction, assembly, maintenance, and dismantling of tubular scaffolding or other temporary structures. Other duties may be assigned.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities:
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Work at heights with no fear.
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Has basic hand tools to bring to site.
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Determines type of scaffold needed.
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Transports tubular scaffold or other structural material and erects the scaffold as instructed by the scaffold builder.
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Hoists scaffolding materials upward in order to erect temporary structure.
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Properly secures and levels locking sections of scaffolding material.
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Properly secures scaffold to the permanent structure for added stability.
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Adheres to all OSHA, site specific and Austin Industrial requirements for the erecting and navigation of the scaffolding.
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Dismantles scaffolding when it has been properly communicated to do so.
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Inspects and properly stows scaffolding material after dismantling.
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Performs final inspection of completed scaffolding.
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Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications Required for this Position:
Education – no minimum education requirements.
Experience – 2-3 years’ experience in a Scaffolding preferred.
Applicants must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United Stated. Austin is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.
Physical, Mental & Environmental Requirements
Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.
Employees must be able to sit, stand, walk, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach, and use hands and fingers to perform assigned duties. Positions may require lifting, carrying, pushing, or pulling up to 50 pounds, working at elevations, on uneven surfaces, or in confined spaces. Employees must possess sufficient visual, hearing, communication, and motor skills to safely perform job responsibilities.
Employees must be able to read, comprehend, and follow safety procedures, work instructions, and company policies; exercise sound judgment; solve problems; maintain attention to detail; effectively manage stress; and adapt to changing priorities in a fast-paced work environment.
Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
See the “Know Your Rights” poster available in English (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088\_EEOC\_KnowYourRights6.12.pdf) and Spanish (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088\_EEOC\_KnowYourRightsSp6.12.pdf) .
No Third-Party Inquiries Please
This Company does not accept and will not consider unsolicited resumes or any other unsolicited candidate information submitted to the Company or any of its employee-owners by staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters in response to a posted vacancy. The Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so ( i.e. , payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement).
Any unsolicited resumes or candidate information submitted to this Company or any of its employee-owners becomes the property of the Company.
Accessibility Note
If you are a job seeker with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to apply for one of our jobs or have accessibility concerns, please contact the People Services Team at (877) 831-1217.
Qualifications
Licenses & Certifications
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Valid Driver's License
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TWIC Card
Experience
Required
- 2 years: Scaffold Builder experience
Equal Opportunity Employer
This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws.
For further information, please review the Know Your Rights (https://www.eeoc.gov/poster) notice from the Department of Labor.
How this job compares
Set against the 2,381 open Construction jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Texas median$102–157K/yr37 salary ranges
- US median$29–63/hr447 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 246 open Construction jobs in Texas and 2,381 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- J.E. Dunn Construction Company47 open
- Kiewit18 open
- Austin Industries (this employer)16 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Construction postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 1,767 postings).
- Education
- 691 of the 2,381 open Construction jobs (29%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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