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Excavator Operator

Employer

Sunlight Excavating Ltd

Date Posted

March 26, 2026

Languages

English
  • Location Edmonton, AB
  • Earnings $36.00 to $37.00 hourly (to be negotiated)
  • Work Hours 35 hours per week
  • Position Permanent Full Time
  • Vacancies 2  Vacancies
  • Closing Date May 10, 2026
Job Requirements

Employer

Sunlight Excavating Ltd

Languages

English

Education

Secondary (high) school graduation certificate

Work site environment

  • Outdoors
  • Dusty

Work setting

Various locations

Tasks

  • Operate heavy equipment
  • Clean and lubricate equipment and refill equipment tanks
  • Complete onboard and other logs
  • Conduct pre-operational checks on equipment

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

Construction Safety Training Systems (CSTS) Certificate

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Physically demanding
  • Attention to detail
  • Fast-paced environment

Employment terms options

  • Evening
  • Shift
  • Morning

Experience

Experience an asset

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Support for persons with disabilities

Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for persons with disabilities

Support for newcomers and refugees

Offers mentorship programs that pair newcomers and/or refugees with experienced employees

Support for youths

Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth

Support for Veterans

Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for Veterans

Support for Indigenous people

Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers

Support for mature workers

Applies hiring policies that discourage age discrimination

Supports for visible minorities

Offers mentorship programs that pair members of visible minorities with experienced employees


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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

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