Heavy Equipment Operator

Job Summary

The incumbent operates heavy equipment such as cranes, clamshells, power shovels, motor graders, heavy loaders, carryalls, bulldozers, rollers, scrapers, and large industrial tractors with pan or scrapper attachments.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Equipment is used to excavate, load, or move and distribute dirt, gravel, or other materials.
• Excavates or stockpiles material on roads, drill pads, event sites, and construction sites.
• Rips rock, cuts slopes, pushes scrapers, and digs sumps.
• Feeds crushers or batch plants; removes aggregate from under conveyor belts.
• Assures that machinery is maintained properly and fluid levels are adequate.
• Operator may read and interpret grade and slope stakes and simple plans, and may grease, adjust and make minor emergency repairs to equipment.

Perform all other position related duties as assigned or requested.

Work Environment, Physical Demands, and Mental Demands:

Work is performed in a shop environment that is moderately lighted, heated and ventilated, is exposed to disagreeable fumes and to cuts and bruises from using tools in close placed and hazards of moving vehicles such as forklifts and sweepers in shop area. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to walk; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and work in tiring and uncomfortable positions. The employee is occasionally required to sit, climb or balance, and taste or smell. Frequently lifts items weighing 40-45 pounds and occasionally in excess of 50 pounds. The employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts, extreme heat, and vibration. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions; extreme cold; and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud, or may include unsafe conditions, questioning nonstandard operations or environmental factors that may involve unmitigated hazards, and providing feedback to supervisors and managers on all safety issues.

Other Responsibilities:

Safety - Amentum enforces a safety culture whereby all employees have the responsibility for continuously developing and maintaining a safe work environment. As appropriate, each employee is responsible for completing all training requirements and fulfilling all self-aid/buddy aid responsibilities, participating in emergency response tasks and serving on safety committees and teams.

Quality - Quality is the foundation for the management of our business and the keystone to our goal of customer satisfaction. It is our policy to consistently provide services that meet customer expectations. Accordingly, each employee must conform to the Amentum Quality Policy and carry out job activities in compliance with applicable Amentum Quality System documents and customer contracts. Each employee must read and understand his/her Quality Management and Customer Satisfaction responsibilities.

Procedure Compliance - Each employee must read, understand and implement the general and specific operational, safety, quality and environmental requirements of all plans, procedures and policies pertaining to his/her job.

• High school diploma or equivalent is required.
• Two years of experience as an Equipment Operator or completion of recognized apprenticeship program.
• Possess Journeyman status per union rules.
• Must receive Hazardous Materials Handling within 90 days of hiring and every two years thereafter.
• Must possess a Class AB Commercial Driver's License (CDL) with a Hazardous Materials endorsement.
• Must be physically qualified in accordance with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations.
• Must be able to pass a driver skills test by CDL standards.
• Position requires the ability to qualify for and maintain a government Top Secret Security Clearance.
• Possess a valid state issued drivers license.