Pipe Loader Operator

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Understand and follow directions from supervisors as to the required work area.
• Operate Loader controls to lower and tilt buckets and drive forward to force bucket into the bulk material.
• Ensure a sound understanding of the issues involving ground disturbance.
• Operate Loader on public or private roadways, maintaining proper awareness of one’s surroundings.
• Transport aggregate or other materials in a safe and precise manner
• Maneuver loader and other heavy equipment safely on public or private roadways
• Loading, delivery, and dumping of materials in a safe and timely manner
• Move lever to raise and tilt bucket when filled, or to dump material
• Maintain cleanliness and good condition of trucks
• Perform daily inspections and safety checks on equipment; reports defects and repairs
• Perform minor maintenance to include cleaning, lubricating and refilling equipment
• Check fluid levels, maintain tires pressures and change implements or attachments
• Performs all duties in conformance to appropriate safety and security standards.
• Work closely with ground crew to achieve project objectives

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of heavy equipment used in excavation, backfilling, and loading operations, their capacities and physical limitations, and issues involving ground disturbance
• Safe driving abilities and strict adherence to safety requirements and procedures
• Able to listen, follow directions, and have a willingness to continue to enhance skills
• Effective communications with jobsite supervisor and co-workers
• General knowledge of road construction processes
• Demonstrate a safety first attitude. Strict adherence to safety requirements and procedures
• Display a professional and courteous attitude to co-workers, supervisors, and the general public
• Able to work nights and weekends when necessary
• Must have reliable transportation, and ability to travel to assigned worksites

Physical Demands

• Constant physical effort, including extended sitting for at least 8 hour shift
• Intermittent walking and standing on a construction site
• Climb intermittently
• Regularly twist, bend, stoop, kneel and crouch to perform duties
• Regularly reach above shoulder level
• Regularly push/pull objects
• Must be physically able to repetitively lift, push, pull and/or carry at least 25 pounds occasionally, and sometimes heavier weight
• Agility, balance, and manual dexterity, as well as arm-hand steadiness
• Able to hear and respond to oral instructions in a noisy environment
• Regularly required to use hands and fingers to handle, feel or operate objects, tools or controls, and reach and grasp with hands and arms
• Excellent hand, eye and foot coordination
• Good vision, depth perception, peripheral vision and the ability to adjust focus

Education / Experience

• High School diploma or general education degree (GED)
• One (1) year experience working as heavy equipment operator
• One (1) year experience operating a loader
• Active Driver’s license

Work Environment

• Regularly works in outside weather conditions, including extreme heat and humidity
• Frequently works near moving mechanical parts and is frequently exposed to wet or humid conditions and vibration
• Handles various toxic products such as epoxies, grouts, sealers, paints and cleaners, with exposure to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and risks of electrical shock
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud