Heavy Equipment Operator Job Description
Heavy Equipment Operator Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Heavy Equipment Operator Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Heavy Equipment Operator
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: OSHA, MRPT, NCCCO, DOT, HAZWOPER
Education for Heavy Equipment Operator
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the heavy equipment operator job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as High School and Associate Degree in General Education, Education, Construction, Legal, Department of Education, Technical, Associates, Fashion, The College, Graduate
Skills for Heavy Equipment Operator
Desired skills for heavy equipment operator include:
Desired experience for heavy equipment operator includes:
Heavy Equipment Operator Examples
Heavy Equipment Operator Job Description
- Is responsible for the safe and technically proficient operation of heavy equipment such as bulldozers, tractors, loaders, excavators, graders, snow blowers, and grooming equipment
- Work with general supervision
- Back Hoe
- Track Hoe
- Mini Excavator
- Extended Reach Excavator
- Bull Dozer (multiple sizes)
- Track Truck
- Samples post-treated materials for testing by laboratory
- Loads cleared post-treatment materials for shipment to landfill or disposal
- Certificated Heavy Equipment Operators preferred
- Must have a good understanding of earthmoving techniques
- Must be knowledgeable with routine maintenance on assigned equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed on them
- Must be capable of performing close tolerance work safely and productively
- Must have good written and oral English communications skills
- Must be able to observe all safety (to include wearing required personal safety equipment), security, and health requirements for office, warehouse, and outside environment
Heavy Equipment Operator Job Description
- Washes and maintains equipment to Company standards
- Maintains all employee related paperwork, time sheets, driver DOT logs, trip sheets
- Proficient in operating heavy equipment
- Trains and directs less experienced Heavy Equipment Operators
- Interprets engineering drawings and use of staking and leveling equipment
- May determine grade on which to cut location
- Other Heavy Equipment Operators
- Works with other departments and contractors
- Takes direction from supervisor
- Ability to efficiently operate bulldozers, wheel loaders, motor grader, scraper
- Must be able to obtain a 5984-E Army Standard license
- Must be able to endure long hours, exposure to weather and hazardous conditions
- Must participate in community programs, such as “house-mouse” (chores), “Berming Man” (community work day and cleaning-up around the station), recycling efforts & safety objectives
- High school graduate or equivalent is strongly preferred
- Four years of experience as a heavy equipment operator (such as loaders, dozers, graders and tractors) is required
- Completion certificate from a technical school on crane operations or four to ten years related experience and/or training
Heavy Equipment Operator Job Description
- Inspects all equipment used on a daily basis
- Proactively protects the well-being of associates and the environment by ensuring a culture of safety awareness and strict compliance of all EHS and Hazmat policies and procedures
- Operation and minor maintenance of various types of heavy equipment including excavator, boom truck, side boom, dozer
- Laboring
- The landfill laborer's main priority is to give clear verbal and non-verbal direction to truck drivers entering the landfill
- Making sure all safety rules and regulations are being followed by all landfill customers
- Candidates must also have the ability to efficiently operate bulldozers, wheel loaders, excavator and off road dump trucks on a as needed basis
- Ability to efficiently operate bulldozers, wheel loaders, motor grader, scraper, forklifts, skidsteers
- Manual labor, paper picking, keeping landfill clean and presentable
- Heavy lifting, moving items from one place to another within the landfill
- Must possess and maintain a valid motor vehicle operator's license and have willingness to use personal and/or company vehicle in the course of employment
- Obtain an Equipment operator's certification for equipment being operated
- Must be willing and able to work as part of a team
- Required to stand, walk and climb for extended periods of time
- Must wear FRC clothing
- While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical part, fumes, airborne particles, outside weather conditions and vibration
Heavy Equipment Operator Job Description
- Mowing, weeding and landscaping as needed
- Assisting with dust control and daily cover application
- Operation of various equipment to include but not limited to, Hydro-Excavation Trucks, Track Excavators, Wheel Loaders, Track Dozer, Backhoe, Skid Loader, Mobile Crane, and other equipment required by the conditions of the task assigned
- Participation in emergency call outs
- Operation of Class A and B vehicles
- Assisting customers with questions and providing information
- Inspecting equipment, performing preventative maintenance on equipment, and scheduling major repairs
- Assisting in project planning and setting up job sites
- Assisting in training other operators
- Assisting the Water and Waste Water crews in the construction and maintenance of the CSU water distribution or collection systems, working in and near high volume traffic areas
- Must be willing to carry company issued cellular telephone and/or pager and be on-call for repair work as may be required
- Must possess heavy equipment operator’s certification for equipment being operated and when required
- Will need take and pass a comprehensive dozer/front-end loader operation test after 90 days of supervised training
- Ability to use hand tools such as grease guns, shovels, wrenches, screwdrivers
- Ability to work a flexible schedule, including Saturdays and Sundays
- Ability to analyze, troubleshoot, and repair
Heavy Equipment Operator Job Description
- Adhere to environmental policies by collecting samples, following appropriate reporting procedures and associated cleanup of any spills
- Assists in the compilation of shipping manifests
- Uses computer for various tasks including but not limited to, time entry, e-mail, environmental reporting, station reporting, intranet, , if required
- Knowledgeable of appropriate health and safety training in order to comply
- Requires applicable operator qualification certifications
- Assists in all construction/operations related activities when required
- Must have a working knowledge of Miss Utility notification dig process
- Knowledgeable in the process of obtaining appropriate road permits and the ability to acquire as needed
- Operate and help maintain heavy equipment such as excavators, dump trucks, dozers, loaders, telehandlers, graders, skid-steers
- Construct and build dirt repositories
- Working knowledge of heavy equipment
- Capable of working outside in all weather conditions and at elevated areas
- Exposure to high levels of dust & noise
- 1 or more year of experience running equipment
- Preferably 2 years heavy equipment experience but willing to train the right candidate
- Frequently operate levers or pedals and makes fine, highly controlled muscular movements to adjust the position of control mechanisms