
Scaffold Builder Level 4 - Austin Industrial (Houston, TX)
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Job overview
Austin Industrial seeks a Scaffold Builder Level 4 to supervise the construction, assembly, maintenance, and dismantling of tubular scaffolding and other temporary structures. The role includes directing scaffold installation, overseeing material transport and erection, securing and inspecting scaffolds, and following OSHA, site-specific, and company requirements. Applicants must have four years of journeyman-level experience, NCCER scaffolding certification, a valid driver’s license, and a TWIC Card.
Skills & qualifications
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Full job description
Rate: $24 USD per hour
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 supervise 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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Determines type of scaffold needed and how to properly instruct on how to install.
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Oversight of transport 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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Supervises the dismantling of 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.
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Applicants must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States. Austin Industries is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position
Physical Demands:
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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. 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 the ability to adjust focus.
Qualifications Required for this Position:
Education: no minimum education requirements.
Experience: 4 years of Journeyman-level experience.
Certification/License : NCCER, a Valid Driver’s License, and a TWIC Card
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.
Work may be performed in industrial and construction environments with exposure to weather conditions, temperature extremes, noise, dust, fumes, moving equipment, vibration, and other site-specific hazards. Employees must be able to wear required personal protective equipment (PPE) and meet all customer, site, regulatory, medical, and fitness-for-duty requirements applicable to the position.
Must be able to perform all job duties while maintaining a constant commitment to safety, quality, and productivity expectations.
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
Required
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TWIC Card
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NCCER-Scaff Bldr PV
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Valid Driver's License
Experience
Required
- 4 years: 4 years of Journeyman-level 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 2,464 open Construction jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$24/hr
- US median$29–60/hr468 hourly ranges
This rate, $24/hr, is 48% below the US median midpoint ($46/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Construction hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 269 open Construction jobs in Texas and 2,464 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- J.E. Dunn Construction Company45 open
- Kiewit22 open
- Austin Industries (this employer)16 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Construction postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (1,807 postings).
- Education
- 777 of the 2,464 open Construction jobs (32%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 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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