Excavator Operator

Application Instructions

Now hiring for LARGE EXCAVATOR OPERATORS with experience in underground wet utilities. Interested in joining a focused, dedicated team? Ralph L. Wadsworth Construction offers challenging career opportunities, extensive training, and employee development.

About the Role

Ralph L. Wadsworth Construction provides equipment operators with the opportunity to grow their careers and thrive under a reputation for excellence. Benefits include competitive pay, paid time off, holiday pay, medical, dental, and vision insurance, retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, and growth and career advancement.

Responsibilities

• Proficiently operate three or more types of heavy equipment such as a backhoe, trackhoe, scrapers, dozer, excavator, loader, rock trucks, compactors, articulated trucks, crushers, and/or motor graders with or without GPS.
• Fasten attachments to tractor with clevis or wedge pin hitches.
• Connect hydraulic hoses, belts, mechanical linkage, or power takeoff shaft to tractor to provide power to raise, lower, or tilt attachment.
• Moves levers to control tool bars, carriers, and disks.
• Moves hand and foot levers to control hydraulic shovel.
• Dig trenches and holes of specified length, depth, and width, remove loosened material, and put in piles or transport trucks.
• Moves levers and depresses pedals to maneuver equipment and raise, lower, and tilt attachment to clear right-of-way.
• Estimate depth of cut using lever and listening for stalling action of engine.
• Drive bulldozer in successive passes over terrain to raise or lower terrain to specified grade following markings on grade stakes or hand signals.
• Construct/grade new roadways, base courses, building pads, footing excavation, and water ponds, and properly slope and grade to specifications.
• Load, move, level, and grade dirt, rocks, demolished concrete, and other materials in a safe and efficient manner in a high-paced environment to maintain production goals.
• Maintain initiative to maintain the flow of work under minimal supervision.
• Demolish bridges and other structures with excavators and hydraulic hoe rams.
• Operate equipment within a Pipe Crew environment such as an excavator or loader.
• Perform general housekeeping, light maintenance of equipment, proper care of equipment, operating the equipment without damaging it, and maintaining equipment checks including reporting usage/utilization hours on a daily basis.
• Work with GPS installed devices on dozers and motor graders.
• Follow and promote all safety standards of Ralph L Wadsworth and its projects.
• Perform Laborer work as required.
• Perform other duties as assigned by immediate supervisor.

Requirements

• A minimum of 4 years of Heavy Equipment Operating Experience with multiple types of equipment or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Willingness to do laborer work.
• Ability to work safely under pressure with time constraints in a changing environment.
• Frequent gross body movements such as bending, climbing into equipment, lifting (up to 75lbs), twisting, standing, balancing, stooping, handling materials, moving around hazardous sites.
• Good eye to hand coordination and depth perception required.
• High School diploma/GED preferred.
• Flexible availability to include overtime and possible weekends and nights.
• A Valid Driver’s License.

Qualifications

Equal Opportunity Employer: We do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age, genetic information, marital status, military status, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, or status with regard to public assistance, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.