Heavy Equipment Operator

Application Instructions

About the role

Ralph L. Wadsworth Construction offers challenging career opportunities, extensive training and employee development along with an opportunity to grow your career and thrive under Ralph L. Wadsworth's reputation for excellence. We offer excellent benefits and supply you with the tools you need to maximize your potential and growth.

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.
• Uses shovel to 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.
• Feels lever and listens for stalling action of engine to estimate depth of cut.
• Drives bulldozer in successive passes over terrain to raise or lower terrain to specified grade following markings on grade stakes or hand signals.
• Constructs/grades new roadways, base courses, building pads, footing excavation and water ponds and properly slopes and grades to specifications.
• Loads, moves, levels and grades dirt, rocks, demolished concrete and other materials in a safe and efficient manner all in a high-paced environment to maintain production goals.
• Maintains the initiative to maintain the flow of work under minimal supervision.
• Demolishes bridges and other structures with excavators and hydraulic hoe rams.
• Operates equipment within a Pipe Crew environment such as an excavator or loader.
• Responsible for general housekeeping, light maintenance of equipment, proper care of equipment, operating the equipment without damaging it along with maintenance checks of equipment including reporting usage/utilization hours on a daily basis.
• Learns, follows and promotes all safety standards of Ralph L Wadsworth and its projects.
• Works with GPS installed devices on dozers and motor graders.
• Performs 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 a must.
• Depth perception required.
• High School diploma/GED preferred.
• Flexible availability to include overtime and possible weekends and nights.

Qualifications

High School diploma/GED preferred.

Skills

Must have proficiency in operating multiple types of heavy equipment such as backhoes, trackhoes, scrapers, dozers, excavators, loaders, rock trucks, compactors, articulated trucks, crushers, and motor graders.

Benefits

We offer competitive pay, paid time off (PTO), holiday pay, medical, dental, and vision insurance, retirement plan (401K), tuition reimbursement, growth and career advancement opportunities, and general housekeeping, light maintenance of equipment, proper care of equipment, operating the equipment without damaging it along with maintenance checks of equipment including reporting usage/utilization hours on a daily basis.

Pay

Competitive pay is offered.

Schedule

Work may include weekend, holiday, and/or overtime work as the project needs require.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an 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.