Job Details

Operate one or several types of power construction equipment, such as motor graders, bulldozers, scrapers, excavators, rollers, off-road dump trucks or front-end loaders to excavate, move, and grade earth, erect structures, or pour concrete or other hard surface pavement. May repair and maintain equipment in addition to other duties. Minimum 5 years' experience required.

Education:
High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate)
Post-Secondary Certificate - awarded for training completed after high school (for example, in Personnel Services, Engineering-related Technologies, Vocational Home Economics, Construction Trades, Mechanics and Repairers, Precision Production Trades)

Tasks

- Learn and follow safety regulations.
- Take actions to avoid potential hazards or obstructions, such as utility lines, other equipment, other workers, or falling objects.
- Adjust handwheels and depress pedals to control attachments, such as blades, buckets, scrapers, or swing booms.
- Start engines, move throttles, switches, or levers, or depress pedals to operate machines, such as bulldozers, trench excavators, road graders, or backhoes.
- Locate underground services, such as pipes or wires, prior to beginning work.
- Monitor operations to ensure that health and safety standards are met.
- Align machines, cutterheads, or depth gauge makers with reference stakes and guidelines or ground or position equipment, following hand signals of other workers.
- Load and move dirt, rocks, equipment, or other materials, using trucks, crawler tractors, power cranes, shovels, graders, or related equipment.
- Drive and maneuver equipment equipped with blades in successive passes over working areas to remove topsoil, vegetation, or rocks or to distribute and level earth or terrain.
- Coordinate machine actions with other activities, positioning or moving loads in response to hand or audio signals from crew members.
- Operate tractors or bulldozers to perform such tasks as clearing land, mixing sludge, trimming backfills, or building roadways or parking lots.
- Repair and maintain equipment, making emergency adjustments or assisting with major repairs as necessary.
- Check fuel supplies at sites to ensure adequate availability.
- Connect hydraulic hoses, belts, mechanical linkages, or power takeoff shafts to tractors.
- Operate loaders to pull out stumps, rip asphalt or concrete, rough-grade properties, bury refuse, or perform general cleanup.
- Signal operators to guide movement of tractor-drawn machines.
- Push other equipment when extra traction or assistance is required.
- Keep records of material or equipment usage or problems encountered.
- Operate equipment to demolish or remove debris

Work Context Body Positioning

- Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions
- Spend Time Sitting
- Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls

Environmental Conditions

- Exposed to Contaminants
- Exposed to Whole Body Vibration
- Extremely Bright or Inadequate Lighting
- Sounds, Noise Levels Are Distracting or Uncomfortable
- Very Hot or Cold Temperatures

Job Hazards

- Exposed to Hazardous Conditions
- Exposed to Hazardous Equipment
- Exposed to Minor Burns, Cuts, Bites, or Stings

Work Attire
- Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, etc.

Work Setting

- In an Enclosed Vehicle or Equipment
- In an Open Vehicle or Equipment
- Indoors, Not Environmentally Controlled
- Outdoors, Exposed to Weather
- Outdoors, Under Cover
- Physical Proximity