Heavy Equipment Operator

**Position Responsibilities:**

**All Heavy Equipment Operators:**

+ Implements and maintains a safe workplace program and ensures that safety is the highest priority
+ Reads and understands the manufacturer’s operating manual for each piece of equipment before operating
+ Is responsible for the safe and technically proficient operation of heavy and light equipment such as bulldozers, articulating loaders, excavators, graders, backhoes, fork-lifts, trenchers, snow blasters, traverse equipment, tracked agricultural tractors, PistenBully, Mattracks, dump trucks, snow/dirt moving and grooming equipment, etc.
+ Operates heavy equipment as required, including but not limited to the following activities in both dirt and snow: Road grading, ditch cleaning, trench excavation, movement, stockpiling, loading of aggregate/snow, snow plowing, snow removal, loading/unloading of trucks/trailers, material handling, disabled vehicle recovery, road construction and maintenance...