REEVES | Loader Operator (Asphalt Plant) - Augusta, GA

About the role

Reeves Construction Company, a Colas USA subsidiary operating in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Missouri, and Arkansas, has been a key partner in infrastructure growth across the Southeast and Midwest since 1923. Reeves is a full-service heavy civil highway and site development construction company serving roadway, airport, bridge, and military markets, with a commitment to safety, ethics, and performance. Throughout Colas USA, employees receive competitive pay, outstanding benefits, career advancement, professional education, and extensive training, while upholding the highest standards of safety, environmental conservation, and ethical conduct.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain loaders.
• Ensure efficient working conditions of loaders, including routine maintenance, minor servicing, cleaning, and alerting the serviceman of significant problems.
• Maintain hopper levels to achieve maximum production.
• Maintain stockpiles and pit floor.
• Load trucks.
• Assist with maintenance around the asphalt plant.
• Check fuel supplies at sites to ensure adequate availability.
• Monitor operations to ensure health and safety standards are met.
• Keep records of material or equipment usage or problems encountered.
• Perform and assist with other job positions as requested for job completion.

Qualifications

• 2 or more years of heavy equipment experience.
• Ability to operate a loader with excellent safety awareness and willingness to comply with company policies and safety standards.
• Understanding of proper stockpile management methods.
• Ability to utilize proper methods to blend material while feeding.
• Effective communication with other operators, truck drivers, and the general public.
• Ability to operate and maintain a loader with little or no supervision.
• Reliable transportation and ability to travel.
• Wear proper attire at all times: safety vests, safety glasses, long pants, above‑ankle/safety‑toed shoes, and maintain a clean, presentable image.
• Continuous mental and visual attention required.
• Project a positive, cooperative attitude with courteous and professional conduct toward supervisors, co‑workers, customers, and the public.
• Ability to provide documentation of legal right to work in the United States.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

Physical Demands: Must be able to climb onto and up and down a machine several times a day; sit in a machine and operate it for several hours; withstand vibration and noise; use arms, hands, and feet in repetitive motions; perform manual duties such as placing paint drums on vehicles; regularly use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach and signal; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear; taste or smell; frequently stand and walk; occasionally sit; regularly lift and/or move up to 60 pounds; require close, distance, color, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus (20/40 vision naturally or with corrective lenses); hearing should be excellent or corrected by audio device.

Work Environment: Regular exposure to moving mechanical parts, outside weather conditions, and vibration; frequent exposure to fumes or airborne particles; occasional exposure to wet/humid conditions, high precarious places, toxic or caustic chemicals; noise level usually very loud.

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Comprehensive benefits including paid holidays, vacation, life insurance, accidental death & dismemberment insurance
• Group health plan options (medical, dental & vision, HSA, FSA)
• Short term disability benefits
• 401(k)/401(k) Roth with company match