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Excavator Operator

Employer

Volker Stevin Contracting Ltd.

Date Posted

December 19, 2024

Languages

English
  • Location Calgary, AB
  • Earnings $31.80 hourly
  • Work Hours 30 to 70 hours per week
  • Position Permanent Full Time
  • Vacancies 12  Vacancies
  • Closing Date Feb 16, 2025
Job Requirements

Employer

Volker Stevin Contracting Ltd.

Languages

English

Education

No degree, certificate or diploma

Work site environment

  • Outdoors
  • Hot
  • Underground

Work setting

Various locations

Tasks

  • Operate heavy equipment
  • Clean and lubricate equipment and refill equipment tanks
  • Operate computer controlled equipment
  • Conduct pre-operational checks on equipment

Type of heavy equipment operated

  • Backhoe excavator, loader
  • Bulldozer, large or small
  • Grader

Area of work experience

  • Backfilling
  • Ditching
  • Excavation
  • Land clearing
  • Sub-grade excavating
  • Trenching

Type of industry experience

  • Industrial/commercial/institutional (ICI) construction
  • Road construction

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Physically demanding
  • Attention to detail
  • Fast-paced environment
  • Handling heavy loads

Weight handling

Up to 13.5 kg (30 lbs)

Own tools/equipment

Steel-toed safety boots

Experience

1 year to less than 2 years

Health benefits

  • Dental plan
  • Disability benefits
  • Health care plan

Financial benefits

  • Life insurance
  • Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)

Other benefits

Other benefits

Support for Indigenous people

Develops and maintains relationships with indigenous communities, indigenous-owned businesses and organizations

Support for mature workers

Applies hiring policies that discourage age discrimination

Supports for visible minorities

Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.)


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Interest Codes & Abilities
The Excavator Operator is part of the following larger National Occupational Classification (NOC).

Interest Codes

Heavy Equipment Operators (Except Crane)
OBJECTIVE

Interest in operating bulldozers and heavy dredging, paving and surfacing equipment to deepen waterways, reclaim earth fill, lay, spread and compact concrete, asphalt and other surface materials during highway and road construction; and in operating power shovels to excavate rock, ore and other materials from open-pit mines, strip mines, quarries and construction pits

METHODICAL

Interest in comparing information to move, load and unload cargo and to clear brush and stumps before logging activities using bulldozers and other heavy equipment

innovative

Interest in conducting pre-operational checks on equipment and in cleaning, lubricating and refilling equipment, and in building roads at logging and surface mining sites using bulldozers and other heavy equipment

Reading Interest Codes
A Quick Guide

The interest code helps you figure out if you’d like to work in a particular occupation. 

It’s based on the Canadian Work Preference Inventory (CWPI), which measures 5 occupational interests: Directive, Innovative, Methodical, Objective, and Social.

Each set of 3 interest codes for this NOC group is listed in order of importance.

A code in capital letters means it’s a strong fit for the occupation.

A code in all lowercase letters means the fit is weaker.

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