Agricultural Heavy Equipment Operator
About The Position
The Agricultural Heavy Equipment Operator will operate and maintain heavy equipment and perform excavation, land management, and maintenance tasks to support infrastructure, grounds upkeep, and overall operational efficiency in a safe and effective manner. This role involves daily inspections and maintenance of various heavy machinery, reading blueprints, operating equipment for diverse tasks such as moving materials, digging, land maintenance, and hauling. The operator will also be responsible for excavating properties for infrastructure installation and repair, maintaining structures, and managing work orders through computerized programs.
Requirements
- Must maintain a valid driver’s license.
- Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, basic repair and maintenance.
- Mechanically inclined and be able to learn various technical/mechanical requirements of the job.
- Knowledge of mowers, tractors, power tools, cutting torches.
- Medium physical work: exerting 30 to 50 pounds of force.
- Two (2) years of experience in equipment and building maintenance.
- Two (2) years’ experience operating equipment including: forklifts, back hoes, bulldozers, tractors, skid loaders, etc.
Responsibilities
- Perform daily inspections and maintenance on a variety of Excavators, Dozers, Front-End Loaders, Packers, and tools necessary in the assistance of the job.
- Read and interpret blueprints and specifications.
- Operate tractor with front end loader to move dirt, brush management, trash and other material and to transplant trees, shrubs and hedges.
- Operate backhoe to dig ditches and holes.
- Operate farm-type tractor to maintain land, fencing, roads, walks, and fairways, building and maintain roads and fire breaks.
- Operate truck rated at greater than 10,000 pounds gross capacity to haul material in grounds maintenance.
- Excavate a variety of properties (e.g., earth, asphalt, concrete, debris, soil trench lines) for the purpose of installing, repairing, improving, and maintaining water, sewer, storm-drain pipes, electrical conduit infrastructure, landscaped areas and fields in a safe and clean condition.
- Maintain and repair multiple structures, utilizing various hand and power tools.
- Retrieve and enter work orders using computerized programs.
- Perform other tasks as may be assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
