Construction, Equipment Operator
Equipment Operators operate heavy transportation and construction equipment across a wide range of project types. Equipment could include trucks, bulldozers, backhoes, graders, forklifts, cranes and asphalt equipment. Your job responsibilities could include:
- Operating a variety of heavy-duty, self-propelled equipment for the construction of buildings, roadways, piers, grading and excavation
- Performing minor maintenance on equipment to ensure safe, efficient operation
- Serving on a crane crew to rig cable assemblies and change attachments for various lifting and pile-driving operations
- Preparing operational reports on equipment
- Operating rock crushing and well-drilling equipment
- Working as blasters for construction projects
- Reading and interpreting blueprints and preparing sketches for projects
- Making estimates of material, labor and equipment requirements
- Performing tasks required in combat and disaster preparedness or recovery operations
- Assisting with disaster relief operations and building makeshift hospitals