Energy Jobline ZR is hiring: Heavy Equipment Operator in Dayton in Dayton

Job Description

Salary: 19.96-23.54 DOQ

ONLY EXPERIENCED APPLICANTS WILL BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION-

Job Summary

The Heavy Equipment Operator performs duties related to the operation of heavy equipment in the construction, repair, and maintenance of the City’s streets, alleys, and drainage ditches.

Specific Duties

• Operates light to heavy complex equipment in support of a variety of maintenance and construction operations of streets and drainages.
• Operates various types of trucks in the hauling and distribution of materials.
• Identifies equipment needs for each assigned project.
• Picks up and delivers heavy equipment from construction sites.
• Cleans and performs preventive maintenance on heavy and light equipment.
• Setup and takedown traffic warning devices and barricades for traffic control in accordance with MUTCD.
• Directs and controls traffic around work sites.
• Waters street and flushes drain.
• Grades and crowns City streets, roads and alleys using a motor grader.
• Maintains asphalt and concrete roadways and surfaces.
• Maintains medians and rights of way for the City of Dayton.
• Loads trucks with heavy machinery, mineral aggregates, bulky trash, pipes, and other material or debris.
• Shovels dirt, asphalt, trash and debris.
• Cleans debris from ditches, culverts, and creek beds.
• Bulldozes land as required.
• Collects and hauls trash, garbage, debris, dirt, sand, and gravel.
• Reads grades and slopes stakes in leveling, surfacing, and rolling roads.
• Responds to emergency call-out.
• Performs other duties as required.
• Assist other departments as necessary.

Essential Functions

• Ability to effectively communicate in oral and written communications.
• Ability to operate a commercial telephone and a two-way radio.
• Ability to operate a variety of moderate to heavy power driven equipment.
• Ability to read and interpret maps, sketches, drawings, specifications and technical manuals.
• Ability to perform duties for extended periods of time in extreme weather.
• Ability to maintain a physical condition appropriate to the performance of assigned duties and responsibilities which may include walking, standing, bending or sitting for extended periods of time.

• Ability to maintain effective audio-visual discrimination and perception needed for making observations, communicating with others and operating assigned equipment and vehicles.
• Ability to lift, carry, push, or pull moderately heavy objects and materials up to 100 pounds.

Required Education, Degrees, Certificates, and/or Licenses

• High school diploma or GED.
• Two years of increasingly responsible experience performing maintenance work involving the skilled operations of heavy construction and maintenance.
• Valid Class B or higher Texas Driver’s License, or
• Obtain a Class B or higher Texas Driver’s License within 6 months of employment.

Note

This job description is intended to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this position. Duties, responsibilities, and actions may change at any time without prior notice.

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