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Job Details

Heavy Equipment Operator

Employer

Border Paving Ltd.

Date Posted

May 28, 2024

Languages

English
  • Location Stony Plain, AB
  • Earnings $34.00 to $35.75 hourly (to be negotiated)
  • Work Hours 44 to 60 hours per week
  • Position Seasonal Full Time
  • Vacancies 8  Vacancies
  • Closing Date Aug 22, 2024
Job Requirements

Employer

Border Paving Ltd.

Languages

English

Education

No degree, certificate or diploma

Work site environment

  • Outdoors
  • Dusty
  • Noisy

Work setting

  • Various locations
  • Traffic

Tasks

  • Operate heavy equipment
  • Clean and lubricate equipment and refill equipment tanks
  • Understand the purpose, proper usgage and information found on material safety data sheets (MSDS)
  • Complete onboard and other logs
  • Conduct pre-operational checks on equipment
  • Prepare accident reports
  • Secure special attachments to equipment
  • Operate two-way radios and other communication equipment
  • Perform minor repairs to equipment

Type of heavy equipment operated

  • Grader
  • Paver

Equipment and machinery experience

Screeds

Area of work experience

  • Asphalt finishing
  • Fine grading and finishing
  • Rough grading

Type of industry experience

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

Work conditions and physical capabilities

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

Weight handling

Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)

Own tools/equipment

Steel-toed safety boots

Personal suitability

Team player

Experience

1 year to less than 2 years

Health benefits

  • Dental plan
  • Disability benefits
  • Health care plan

Financial benefits

  • Bonus
  • Life insurance

Other benefits

Other benefits


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Interest Codes & Abilities
The Heavy Equipment 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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