heavy equipment operator

- Work Term: Permanent

- Work Language: English

- Hours: 40 hours per week

- Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate

- Experience: 2 years to less than 3 years

- or equivalent experience

- Work site environment

- Outdoors

- Hot

- Dusty

- Extremely cold

- Noisy

- Heavy equipment

- Work setting

- Various locations

- Willing to relocate

- Relocation costs not covered by employer

- Tasks

- Interpret blueprints, maps, drawings and specifications to plan methods or sequences of operation

- Operate heavy equipment

- Use International Organization for Standardization (ISO) pattern joystick controls

- Clean and lubricate equipment and refill equipment tanks

- Measure distance, volume, length and weight

- Operate computer controlled equipment

- Understand the purpose, proper usgage and information found on material safety data sheets (MSDS)

- Conduct pre-operational checks on equipment

- Prepare accident reports

- Secure special attachments to equipment

- Operate GPS (Global Positioning System) and other navigation equipment

- Operate two-way radios and other communication equipment

- Perform minor repairs to equipment

- Operate hydraulic pumping systems

- Type of heavy equipment operated

- Backhoe excavator, loader

- Caterpillar (CAT) controls

- John Deere controls

- Bulldozer, large or small

- Cable shovel, large or small

- Trencher, large or small

- Grader

- Loader

- Pulverizing, stabilizing machine

- Compactor

- Roller

- Scraper

- Operate forklift

- Front end loader

- Dump truck

- Gravel or dump truck

- Industrial lift trucks and fork-lifts

- Bobcats

- Equipment and machinery experience

- Lift truck

- Area of work experience

- Backfilling

- Demolition

- Ditching

- Excavation

- Land clearing

- Material handling

- Rough grading

- Snow removal

- Stock piling

- Stripping

- Trenching

- Type of industry experience

- Industrial/commercial/institutional (ICI) construction

- Residential construction

- Work conditions and physical capabilities

- Physically demanding

- Attention to detail

- Fast-paced environment

- Combination of sitting, standing, walking

- Own tools/equipment

- Steel-toed safety boots

- Screening questions

- Are you authorized to work in Canada?

- Do you have experience working in this field?

- Other benefits

- Learning/training paid by employer