Equipment Operator - NON-UNION

About the role

This position operates heavy equipment of various types to remove branches and tree material from electrical lines. Asplundh has been dedicated to safe, efficient, and innovative line clearance services to the utility industry since 1928. The company provides vegetation management services to utilities, municipalities, railroads, pipelines, helicopter vegetation services, and departments of transportation.

A family-owned and operated corporation headquartered near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Asplundh employs over 36,000 service professionals throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

Responsibilities

• Operates heavy equipment such as bulldozers, backhoes, skid steers, excavators, loaders, dump trucks, mowers, and stump grinders.
• Transports equipment to and from multi-state job locations.
• Installs and removes gates, fences, and barbed wire.
• Installs and removes culverts, rocks, and base materials.
• Works on prepared rock and base by highways, side roads, and on the right-of-way.
• Uses a chainsaw to cut brush, logs, and stumps of larger trees.
• Gathers brush and feeds it into a wood chipper.
• Applies chemical herbicide to right-of-way following brush removal (when applicable).
• Utilizes hose and spray nozzle from truck-mounted spray equipment, including tanks, pumps, hose reels, and 200 feet of ½ inch hose, or uses a backpack to treat remote areas.
• Services trucks, chippers, and equipment, maintaining them in neat, clean, and specified mechanical order.
• Assists senior spray personnel in mixing herbicide in holding tanks (when applicable).
• Works around hazardous equipment and excessive noise from machines, chainsaws, and wood chippers, with hearing protection.
• Works in all temperatures and weather conditions, exposed to nature, irritating plants, biting or stinging insects, and dust.
• Works on unleveled ground and around falling limbs with protection.

Requirements

• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Possesses working knowledge and ability to identify tree and shrub species.
• Familiar with electrical hazards.
• Driver License Required.
• Must have transportation to and from the show-up location.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent preferred.

Upon offer, employees may be required to complete and pass a pre-employment drug screen, background check, and/or MVR check.

Physical Requirements

• Rare (less than 10%): sitting, kneeling, crawling, color vision, climbing stairs.
• Occasional (up to 33%): stooping, squatting, climbing on/off truck, reading, pushing, climbing ladders, lifting up to 50 lbs.
• Frequent (up to 66%): walking, body twisting, manual dexterity, speaking clearly, hearing-speech range, lifting, carrying, pulling, balancing, lifting up to 10 lbs.
• Continuous (up to 100%): standing, sense of touch, seeing distant, climbing, gripping, lifting over 10 lbs. to 50 lbs., seeing, reaching, range of motion, depth perception.

Benefits

• Competitive wages, paid weekly via direct deposit.
• Paid vacation and holidays.
• Individual and family health, dental, vision, and prescription insurance (premiums paid by the company).
• FMLA and short-term disability benefits.
• Retirement packages (paid by the company).
• Prescription safety glasses.
• All tools provided by the company.
• DOT-regulated drug-free workplace.
• First Aid & CPR training provided.