BULLDOZER OPERATOR
About the role
Branch's Civil Division is searching for an experienced and safety-oriented Bulldozer Operator to join our well-established, growing company. The Bulldozer Operator operates a tractor with a blade attached across the front to excavate, level, and distribute earth and to push trees and rocks.
Responsibilities
- Fastens attachments to tractor
- Connects hydraulic hoses, belts, mechanical linkage or power takeoff shaft to tractor to provide power to raise, lower or tilt attachment
- Operates controls to manipulate tool bars, carriers and disks
- Operates controls to maneuver tractor and raise, lower and tilt attachments to clear right-of-way
- Listens for stalling action of engine to estimate depth of cut
- Operates bulldozer in successive passes to raise or lower terrain to specified grade following markings on grade stakes or hand signals
- May service and make normal operating adjustments to equipment
Qualifications
- Knowledge of construction techniques
- 1 to 3 years of bulldozer operating experience
- Working knowledge of OSHA regulations
- DOT experience preferred, but not required
Skills
- Dependability
- Productivity
- Communicating Effectively
- Following Policies and Procedures
- Working Safely
- Travel
- Supervisory Responsibility
Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands and fingers to handle, feel or operate objects, tools or controls, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stand, talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to walk, sit, climb, balance