Operates excavating and loading equipment and heavy machinery including excavators, power shovels, stripping shovels, scraper loaders, and backhoes. Effectively completes excavation and related tasks such as backfilling excavations and breaking concrete or rock using appropriate equipment.
Responsibilities
- Promote and comply with all Company and safety policies and procedures
- Operates heavy equipment and includes knowledge of equipment functions, running, navigating, detects or assesses problems, mechanical aptitude, and driving
- Drive and maneuver equipment over working areas to remove top soil, vegetation, and rocks and to distribute and level earth or terrain
- Coordinate machine actions with other activities, positioning or moving loads in response to hand or audio signals from crew members
- Must have the ability to communicate clearly, listen and understand information through spoken words and sentences to ensure full comprehension of job duties, safety regulations, and other situations that may require an immediate response
- Perform maintenance duties such as cleaning, greasing and oiling machines; fill out maintenance reports daily
- May be required to travel to different jobsites on limited notice
- Position may involve performing other duties as required which may not be mentioned and may change from time to time as assigned by Superintendent or Foreman
Qualifications
EDUCATION AND WORK EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:
High school diploma or general education degree (GED) and one to three years or more related experience and/or training or equivalent combination of education and experience
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:
- Take reasonable care of your own and others health and safety and of those who may be affected by the day-to-day delivery of this role by taking personal responsibility for working toward Wanzek's
- Zero Injury principles
- This position requires working in the internal and external environment, flexible work schedule, nights and / or weekends will be required.
- Read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, read engineering drawings and procedure manuals
- Add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals
- Common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written or oral form
- Workers should be able to work within precise standards of accuracy; follow set procedures and standards, judge distances and slopes accurately; and make decisions based on verifiable standards
- Working knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in structural fills, DOT, and other public and private entities
MasTec, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer. The Company's policy is not to unlawfully discriminate against any applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military status or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state, or local laws. The Company also prohibits harassment of applicants and employees based on any of these protected categories. It is also MasTec's policy to comply with all applicable state, federal and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions.