HVY EQUIP OPER

Salary Schedule

About the Role

Under direction, the purpose of the position is to operate heavy trucks and equipment in the pick-up, distribution, transport, and delivery of various materials for the school district. Employees in this classification bring previous experience to the work and are capable of leading work crews in the operation of automotive trucks and equipment according to assigned work orders. The position involves transporting items including, but not limited to, work site waste and debris, portable classrooms, heavy equipment, concrete and asphalt, and construction materials. Duties are physically demanding, requiring considerable dexterity and physical agility in operating multiple controls to excavate, load, transfer, and unload equipment and materials.

Responsibilities

• Responds to internal and external customers in a timely, accurate, courteous, and empathetic manner, representing OCPS in a positive light.
• Functions in a lead worker capacity for work crews engaged in retrieval, removal, demolition, transfer, excavation, loading, and distribution of equipment and materials at various school location work sites.
• Operates a variety of trucks and associated automotive equipment as applicable to assigned work orders, such as dump trucks, front-end loaders, backhoes, graders, bulldozers, forklifts, tractors, rollers, bucket trucks, and hydraulic cranes.
• Observes standards of safe truck and equipment operation on highways, roadways, and school grounds to ensure the protection of life and property.
• Transports and delivers items including work site waste and debris, portable classrooms, heavy equipment, concrete and asphalt, and construction materials.
• Maintains vehicle service records and repair logs; adheres to established preventive maintenance and service schedules.
• Performs various basic to semi-skilled trades and property maintenance functions within the scope of abilities, as acquired through time and experience in the work.
• Keeps up to date on current technology relevant to the job and attends training to ensure required skill levels.
• Ensures timely and accurate information maintenance as part of job responsibilities.

The list of essential functions is intended to be representative of the tasks performed within this classification and is not necessarily descriptive of any one position. Management may assign duties not listed if such functions are a logical assignment to the position.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED.
• Minimum of three years of progressively skilled heavy truck and equipment operating experience, demonstrating safe and effective equipment operation requiring setting and adjustment of multiple controls and conditions.
• Ability to maintain basic activity and numerical records.
• Valid commercial driver’s license class “A”.

Skills

• Data Utilization: Ability to calculate, compute, summate, and/or tabulate data and perform subsequent actions related to these operations.
• Human Interaction: Ability to provide leadership, guidance, assistance, and interpretation to others on applying procedures and standards to specific situations.
• Equipment Operation: Ability to operate, maneuver, and control heavy trucks and associated automotive equipment.
• Verbal Aptitude: Ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, and design data and information.
• Mathematical Aptitude: Ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and calculate decimals and percentages.
• Functional Reasoning: Ability to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagrammatic form, involving semi-routine standardized work with latitude for independent judgment.
• Situational Reasoning: Ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness, and creativity in evaluating information against sensory, judgmental, or subjective criteria.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

• Physical Ability: Tasks involve exerting very heavy physical effort in heavy work, including climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, and lifting, carrying, pushing, or pulling objects up to 100 pounds, occasionally heavier.
• Sensory Requirements: Most tasks require visual perception and discrimination.
• Environmental Factors: Tasks are regularly performed with exposure to adverse conditions such as dirt, dust, pollen, odors, wetness, humidity, rain, fumes, temperature extremes, noise, machinery vibrations, and traffic hazards.

The Orange County School District will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities to allow them to perform the essential functions of the job when requested.