Excavator Operator

or equivalent experience

**Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)**:

- Driver's License (Class 3 or D)
- Air Brake (Z) Endorsement
- Heavy Equipment Operator Trade Certification

**Area of Work Experience**:

- Trenching
- Sub-grade excavating
- Rough grading
- Material handling
- Excavation
- Ditching
- Backfilling

**Construction Specialization**:

- Underground and tunnel work
- Roads and bridges
- Industrial, commercial and institutional

**Additional Skills**:

- Prepare accident reports
- Complete onboard and other logs

**Weight Handling**:

- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)

**Work Setting**:

- Construction company

**Type of Heavy Equipment Operated**:

- Loader
- Backhoe excavator, loader
- Front end loader

**Type of Industry Experience**:

- Surface mining
- Industrial/commercial/institutional (ICI) construction

**Specific Skills**:

- Secure special attachments to equipment
- Remove rubble and other debris at construction sites
- Operate heavy equipment
- Load, unload and transport construction materials
- Direct traffic at or near construction sites
- Conduct pre-operational checks on equipment
- Clean and lubricate equipment and refill equipment tanks
- Read and interpret blueprints

**Security and Safety**:

- Driving record check (abstract)

**Work Site Environment**:

- Outdoors

**Transportation/Travel Information**:

- Valid driver's licence

**Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities**:

- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination

**Personal Suitability**:

- Effective interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Excellent oral communication
- Organized

**Health benefits**:

- Health care plan
- Dental plan
- Vision care benefits

**Long term benefits**:

- Life insurance
- Registered retirement savings plan (RRSP)