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Job Details

Heavy Equipment Operator

Employer

Prattco Excavating

Date Posted

August 21, 2024

Languages

English
  • Location Calgary, AB
  • Earnings $30.00 hourly
  • Work Hours 30 to 44 hours per week
  • Position Permanent Full Time
  • Vacancies 2  Vacancies
  • Closing Date Sep 20, 2024
Job Requirements

Employer

Prattco Excavating

Languages

English

Education

No degree, certificate or diploma

Work site environment

  • Outdoors
  • Hot
  • Dusty
  • Extremely cold

Work setting

Various locations

Tasks

  • Interpret blueprints, maps, drawings and specifications to plan methods or sequences of operation
  • Operate heavy equipment
  • Read blueprints, maps, drawings and specifications to determine work requirements
  • Clean and lubricate equipment and refill equipment tanks
  • Operate computer controlled equipment
  • 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
  • Operate GPS (Global Positioning System) and other navigation equipment
  • Operate two-way radios and other communication equipment

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

Driver's License (Class 1 or A)

Type of heavy equipment operated

  • Backhoe excavator, loader
  • Bulldozer, large or small
  • Grader
  • Loader
  • Compactor
  • Bobcats

Equipment and machinery experience

Skidsteer

Area of work experience

  • Backfilling
  • Demolition
  • Excavation
  • Fine grading and finishing
  • Rough grading
  • Sub-grade excavating

Type of industry experience

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

Transportation/travel information

Public transportation is available

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Physically demanding
  • Overtime required

Screening questions

Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?

Experience

2 years to less than 3 years

Health benefits

  • Dental plan
  • Disability benefits
  • Health care plan
  • Vision care 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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Abilities

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Form Perception

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Physical Abilities

Motor Coordination

Finger Dexterity

Manual Dexterity

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