Helper

A General Helper assists multiple departments with manual labor, cleaning, equipment handling, and basic support tasks such as loading/unloading materials, maintaining work areas, and helping skilled workers, as commonly described across industries like manufacturing, construction, logistics, and hospitality.

Overview

A General Helper provides broad operational support by performing routine, physical, and organizational tasks. The role is versatile and adapts to the needs of the workplace, ensuring smooth daily operations. coverlettersandresume.com

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Assist with daily operations: Support teams, maintain tools/equipment, and ensure workflow continuity. coverlettersandresume.com
• Physical labor: Lift, load, unload, move materials, and set up work areas. coverlettersandresume.com
• Cleaning & maintenance: Clean workspaces, machinery, and public areas; perform routine inspections.
• Support skilled workers: Prepare tools, fetch materials, hold items in place, and assist technicians or machine operators.
• Operate basic tools/equipment: Use hand tools, power tools, pallet jacks, forklifts (if certified), and assist with machinery setup.
• Inventory tasks: Count, stock, receive shipments, and track supplies. coverlettersandresume.com
• Safety compliance: Follow safety protocols, use PPE, attend training, and report hazards.
• Record keeping: Maintain logs of tasks, inventory, and incidents. coverlettersandresume.com

Required Skills & Qualifications

Hard Skills

• Equipment handling and material movement.
• Basic mechanical ability and tool operation.
• Cleaning, sanitizing, and maintenance knowledge.
• Ability to read measurements, job specs, and follow instructions.
• MUST HAVE ARSC Basic Orientation Plus (BOP

Based in Houston, Taurus Industrial Group (Taurus) is a leading, integrated and industry-diversified technical services company offering end-to-end services across multiple service lines. Leveraging a growing footprint with operations in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, Taurus’s service offerings cover engineering and automation, electrical and instrumentation, power systems testing and commissioning, civil and mechanical crafts, pipe and structural steel fabrication, rotating equipment maintenance and repairs, full-service soft crafts, insulation and scaffold, specialty tooling and machining, technical bolting, heat treating, hot-tapping, line stopping and NDT / inspections.

With over 60 years of continuous, safe, and reliable operating experience, Taurus operates across multiple industries and sectors, providing front-end engineering, routine maintenance, capital projects, and turnaround services. We service multiple areas of the energy industry, from our origins in traditional petrochemical and refining industries to the broader power, natural gas, midstream, industrials, and the emerging renewables market.