• Job Description

  Req#: EXPER001773

  DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
  General duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Operate one or more of the following pieces of heavy equipment skillfully, safely, and in accordance with traffic laws and regulations: scrapers, motor graders or blades, excavators, front end loaders, wheeled rollers, bulldozers, skidsteer, backhoe, haul trucks
  • Create level surfaces, grade slopes to specifications, remove material and thoroughly fill voids using plans and/or a surveyor as guidance
  • Maintain equipment in proper operating condition by performing simple preventive maintenance tasks and/or making minor repairs as required
  • Inspects equipment prior to use to ensure that it is in proper operating condition
  • Mentor and teach colleagues with less experience
  • Perform general labor and other construction related duties as required
  • Attend trainings and safety meetings
  • Observe construction sites for obstacles that may compromise job safety and/or production
  • Demonstrates continuous effort to improve operations, decrease turnaround times, streamline work processes, and work cooperatively and jointly to provide quality seamless customer service
  • Responsible for observing and complying with all safety and project rules
  • Understand utility marking and know how to dig around them, along with operating equipment in close quarters of people, underground utility electric lines
  • Store and clean machinery at its designated location and note any deficiencies
  • Other duties as assigned

  
  REQUIRED SKILLS & ABILITIES:

  • In-depth knowledge of construction procedures, OSHA guidelines, and construction equipment, including safe operating practices and signs of maintenance issues
  • Able to read drawings, plans and blueprints
  • Familiar with staking and checking grade
  • Possesses strong math and analytical skills
  • Detail-oriented with the ability to process information quickly and accurately
  • Takes initiative and prioritizes tasks: organizational, problem-prevention and problem-solving skills
  • Dependable and able to work independently with little supervision as well as with a team of individuals
  • Basic mechanical skills
  • Must know the consistency of material and understand compaction techniques
  • Able to compute and set grades using laser equipment
  • Proficiently operate all grading equipment with GPS/Total Station (big plus)
  • Must have reliable transportation with the ability to travel
  • Must have the ability to work extended hours as required by the workload
  • Must be 18 years of age or older
  • Must have a valid driver's license with a clean driving record

  Qualifications

  Licenses & Certifications

  Preferred

  OSHA 10

  Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

  The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

• About the company

  Emery Sapp & Sons is a heavy civil contractor dedicated to building relationships and communities.

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