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Journeyman Operator, Heavy Equipment

Location: Alaska

Employment Class: Part Time Regular

FLSA Classification: Non-Exempt Hourly (Davis Bacon)

Position Summary

Potawatomi Defense Operations (a federal government contractor is seeking a qualified part-time Journeyman Operator, Heavy Equipment will operate one or several types of power construction equipment, such as motor graders, bulldozers, scrapers, compressors, pumps, derricks, shovels, tractors, excavators, and front-end loaders to excavate, move, and grade earth, erect structures, pour concrete or other hard surface pavement. This position requires 75% travel; hours worked while in travel status could be up to twelve (12) hours per day.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Operate various heavy equipment including excavators, backhoes, and front end loaders on environmental and construction job sites.

• Ability to operate precisely and safely in close proximity to others.

• Requires the ability to properly wear, use, and maintain personal respirator equipment and other forms of personal protective equipment (PPE) on HAZWOPER sites.

• Monitor job site for hazards and challenge unauthorized personnel on job site and maintain a safe working environment.

• Maintain constant awareness of surroundings including eye contact with ground personnel and recognize job site specific hazards.

• Possess good communication skills as well as take direction from environmental staff in all phases of field operations.

• Maintain safe excavation areas to include benching, shoring, and barricading as necessary to allow access by site personnel when conditions permit entry.

• Learn and follow safety regulations.

• Take actions to avoid potential hazards and obstructions, such as utility lines, other equipment, other workers, and falling objects.

• Adjust hand wheels and depress pedals to control attachments, such as blades buckets, scrapers, and swing booms.

• Start engines, move throttles, switches, and levers and depress pedals to operate machines, such as bulldozers, trench excavators, road graders, and backhoes.

• Monitor operations to ensure that health and safety standards are met.

• Align machines, cutter heads, or depth gauge makers with reference stakes and guidelines or ground, or position equipment following hand signals of other workers.

• Load and move dirt, rocks, equipment, and materials using trucks, crawler tractors, power cranes, shovels, graders, and related equipment.

• Drive and maneuver equipment with blades in successive passes over working areas to remove topsoil, 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.

• Operate tractors and bulldozers to perform tasks such as clearing land, mixing sludge, trimming backfills, and building roadways and parking lots.

• Check fuel supplies at sites to ensure adequate availability.

• Perform routine maintenance in field as needed or directed.

• Connect hydraulic hoses, belts, mechanical linkages, or power takeoff shafts to tractors.

• Operate loaders to pull out stumps, rip asphalt or concrete, rough-grade properties, bury refuse, or perform general cleanup.

• Select and fasten bulldozer blades or other attachments to tractors using hitches.

• Test atmosphere for adequate oxygen and explosive conditions when working in confined spaces.

• Operate compactors, scrapers, and rollers to level, compact, and cover refuse at disposal grounds.

• Talk to clients and study instructions, plans, and diagrams in order to establish work requirements.

• Signal operators to guide movement of tractor-drawn machines.

• Operate road watering, oiling, and rolling equipment, and street sealing equipment, such as chip spreaders.

• Perform specialized wo k using equipment such as pile drivers, dredging rigs, drillers, and concrete pumpers.

• Push other equipment when extra traction or assistance is required.

• Drive tractor-trailer trucks to move equipment from site to site.

• Turn valves to control air and water output of compressors and pumps.

• Operate equipment to demolish and remove debris and to remove snow from streets, roads, and parking lots.

• Operate conveyors to remove grit and debris from digesters.

• Perform any other duties as assigned by management.

Education, Experience and KSA Requirements:

• High School Graduate or General Education Degree (GED)

• At least (ten) 10 years of experience as journeyman level operator

• Valid driver's license with clean driving record

• Proficient operating skills; ability to finish road grade with a motor grader, ability to excavate and install mainline utilities (waterline, sewer line, and storm sewer) to specified line and grade, operate an excavator while using a trench box productively, read and interpret grade stakes, install finish grade with a dozer and manage a fill site while operating a dozer

• Proficient with Topcon / Trimble /Leica surveying equipment

• Knowledge of construction, machines, and tools; including their designs, uses, repair and maintenance, and the practical application of engineering science/technology

• Ability to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) (Goggles, Hardhats, Safety Shoes, etc.)

Working Conditions/Working Environment/Physical Demands

Working Environment:

• May be indoors or outdoors, subject to confined spaces, changes in temperature, weather conditions, and noise levels.

Physical Demands (including but not limited to):

• Frequent lifting, sitting, standing, stooping for prolonged periods of time, using hands/fingers requiring dexterity, should have good hand-eye coordination and motion control in coordination with handling tools, equipment, and other related components

• Reaching with hands and arms for items above and below sight level, talking, hearing, and seeing (up close, at a distance, along the periphery, with depth, color perception, and the ability to adjust focus); walking from place to place within the project location with occasional use of stairs and no elevator available; bending, pushing, pulling, and standing for up to 12 hours.

• May require frequent lifting up to 50 pounds, such as equipment, tools and other materials

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