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Heavy Equipment Operator
Posted: 08/29/2025
2025-08-29
2025-11-02
Employment Type:
Contract to Hire
Industry: Construction
Job Number: 85528
Job Description
Our client is fully integrated environmental construction company delivering and implementing turnkey self-perform construction solutions to environmental challenges in soil, vapor, air and water (groundwater, stormwater, water/wastewater). They serve both public and private-sector clients with diversified service lines that include soil and groundwater remediation, decommissioning/demolition, sensitive habitat/waterway restoration, and water/wastewater/air pollution treatment.
Purpose of Role
This role will operate one or several types of heavy equipment, such as excavators, dozers, backhoes, compactors, articulated dump trucks, and/or front-end loaders as part of earth-moving operations at an environmental remediation site. Heavy equipment may have either CAT or John Deere controls. Perform minor maintenance and equipment repair.
Primary Responsibilities Include:
- Must possess skill, coordination, and awareness to operate heavy equipment (as listed above) in safe manner with precision and efficiency
- Willingness to operate heavy equipment for long periods with continuous attention to detail and safety.
- Knowledgeable of limitations of heavy equipment including load weights in order not to overload or offset equipment center of gravity.
Job Requirements
Qualifications
- 4+ years of work experience on civil projects
- 5+ years of experience working as an equipment operator
- Demonstrate experience operating excavators, bulldozers, backhoes, compactors, articulated dump trucks, and front-end loaders.
- High school diploma or general education degree (GED).
- Current 40-Hour HAZWOPER and 8-Hour HAZWOPER Refresher.
- Trained and certified to operate the assigned equipment
- Ability to read grading plans and cut and fill stakes.
- Ability to travel to local project sites.
- Must be a team player
- Ability to adapt to changing conditions
Pay rate: up to $54.00/hr DOE
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