The heavy equipment team is responsible for operating various excavating equipment, from backhoes and dozers to loaders and excavators. There’s more for you at Brubacher. We decide and respect your unique capabilities and offer you room to advance your supply operator career. You’ll be part of a team that exceeds expectations and pushes your interpretation higher because a safety culture and doing things right drives our every action. Heavy Equipment Operator Best Jobs 2023
Tasks range from exploring canals and earthmoving to land clearing and loading materials. All supply operators perform daily maintenance, including visual assessments of the machine, containing and filling fluids, and greasing the engine.
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Work Conditions For Heavy Equipment Operator Jobs
The standard work week for heavy supplies operators is 40 hours (Eight hours a day, five days a week). As with many careers in building, there are peak periods that will demand you to work overtime. The more hours you work each week, counting on the building sector and region, will vary from one job to the next. As a Heavy Equipment Operator, you will work outside on building sites. You will work closely with other tool operators and with the ground crew. As with all careers in construction, safety is the top priority.
Training and Certification:
Certification is required in Quebec and is general but unforced in Newfoundland, Labrador, and the Northwest Territories. Where a certificate is unavailable, it may be feasible to study as a trainee through your local labor organization. Even where certification is voluntary, it is still guided, as it tells employers and other workers that you are a skilled specialist and helps you get good career jobs.
Heavy Equipment Operators must keep up with new technologies to keep their skills current by reading and conveying with others in the field.
Best Heavy Equipment Operator Jobs
Loader Operator
Responsibilities:
- Maintaining organized, neatly graded and well drained job site according to plans
- Loading trucks and transporting material to trenches and stone boxes
- Backfilling trenches
- Grading streets after utility installation
Backhoe Operator
Responsibilities:
- Maintaining job site and material so it’s organized and well-drained
- Using the bucket or forks to unload and load material onto trucks or within a job site
- Digging trenches for footers, gas, sewer, and water pipe
- Leveling dirt and stone in trenches and small areas
Excavator Operator
Works a tracked excavator. Primary functions are diverged between two crews: earth moving or pipe. Both teams need grading slopes and digging trenches to preset grades that meet OSHA conditions for safe benching/shoring or trench shields.
Dirt Crew Responsibilities:
- Efficient loading of earth and rock into dump trucks for bulk earthmoving operations
- Land clearing
- Grubbing
- Demolition
May also work with a variety of attachments (hydraulic breaker, hydraulic tamper, grapple, stump splitter, etc.)
Pipe Crew Responsibilities:
- Excavate for sanitary, storm sewer and water system installations.
- Utilizes trench shields (including double-stacked boxes) and bedding boxes
- Moves and sets the stone and trench boxes
- Sets manholes, inlets and other structures
Dozer Operator
Works a track-type tractor with a blade to move earth and other materials for building roads, ponds, building areas, etc. Many of our dozers are fitted with GPS. This helps the operator see where cuts and fills need to be instead of using grade stakes.
Responsibilities:
- Maintaining organized, neatly graded and well drained job site according to plans
- Stripping and grading topsoil
- Building and grading swales and berms
- Pushing scrapers
