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Job Details

Heavy Equipment Operator

Employer

VCL

Date Posted

October 30, 2025

Languages

English
  • Location Edmonton, AB
  • Earnings $20.00 to $30.00 hourly (to be negotiated)
  • Work Hours 40 hours per week
  • Position Permanent Full Time
  • Vacancies 1  Vacancy
  • Closing Date Nov 13, 2025
Job Requirements

Employer

VCL

Languages

English

Education

No degree, certificate or diploma

Work site environment

Outdoors

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)
  • Conduct pre-operational checks on equipment
  • Secure special attachments to equipment
  • Perform minor repairs to equipment

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

Driver's License (Class 3 or D)

Type of heavy equipment operated

  • Backhoe excavator, loader
  • Loader
  • Bobcats

Area of work experience

  • Fine grading and finishing
  • Snow removal

Security and safety

Driving record check (abstract)

Transportation/travel information

  • Own transportation
  • Valid driver's licence
  • Public transportation is not available

Work conditions and physical capabilities

Attention to detail

Own tools/equipment

Steel-toed safety boots

Screening questions

  • Are you authorized to work in Canada?
  • Do you have experience working in this field?

Experience

Experience an asset

Health benefits

  • Dental plan
  • Health care plan
  • Vision care benefits

Financial benefits

Group insurance 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

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