Heavy Equipment Operator at Dragados USA in San Antonio, Texas

Job Description:

Responsibilities:


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


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


• Locate underground services, such as pipes and wires, prior to beginning work.


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


• Align machines 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, shovels, graders, or related equipment.


• Coordinate machine actions with other activities, positioning or moving loads in response to hand or audio signals from crew members.


• Learn and follow safety regulations.


Requirements:


• Must have minimum of 3 years experience running, maneuvering, driving, and navigating an excavator.


• Must be able to communicate with others to convey information effectively.


• Must demonstrate attention to details.


• Must be able to read blueprints.


• Must be knowledgeable of safety procedures and practices.


Pre-employment drug screening required.


Pulice Construction Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer Women/Minorities/Veterans/Disabled