12N Horizontal Construction Engineers

About the role

Before a road, airfield, or a building can be constructed, all obstacles must be removed from the site. As a Horizontal Construction Engineer in the Army National Guard, you’ll handle the heavy lifting to help your crew succeed. You’ll operate bulldozers, roadgraders, and other massive equipment to clear the way for construction.

Responsibilities

Your responsibilities will include leveling earth for runways and roadbeds, clearing, excavating, and digging areas of construction sites, spreading fill material, transporting heavy construction equipment with a tractor-trailer, moving heavy building materials with cranes, and assisting in performance of combat engineer missions.

• Analyze the information on grade stakes and placing them
• Cut and spread fill material with scraper

Skills

Helpful skills for this role include a preference for working outdoors. Through your training, you will develop the skills and experience to enjoy a civilian career in basic construction methods and engineering principles, particularly as they pertain to operating heavy construction equipment.

• Maintenance and repair of equipment
• Identification of soil types and placement of grade stakes

Qualifications

To be eligible for this role, you must be at least a junior in high school, or have a high school diploma or a GED certificate, be between the ages of 17 and 35, be able to pass a physical exam and meet legal and moral standards, and meet citizenship requirements.

Benefits

• Paid training
• A monthly paycheck
• Montgomery GI Bill
• Federal and State tuition assistance
• Retirement benefits for part-time service
• Low-cost life insurance (up to $400,000 in coverage)
• 401(k)-type savings plan
• Student Loan Repayment Program (up to $50,000, for existing loans)
• Health care benefits available
• VA home loans
• Bonuses, if applicable

Most non-prior service candidates will earn between $200 and $250 per drill weekend, subject to change.