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Heavy Equipment Operator

Employer

COX CONTRACTORS LTD

Date Posted

July 07, 2026

Languages

English
  • Location High Prairie, AB
  • Earnings $36.00 hourly
  • Work Hours 30 hours per week
  • Position Permanent Full Time
  • Vacancies 1  Vacancy
  • Closing Date Jul 28, 2026
Job Requirements

Employer

COX CONTRACTORS LTD

Languages

English

Education

College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 3 months to less than 1 year

Tasks

  • Operate heavy equipment
  • Clean and lubricate equipment and refill equipment tanks
  • Measure distance, volume, length and weight
  • Operate computer controlled equipment
  • Complete onboard and other logs
  • Conduct pre-operational checks on equipment
  • Prepare accident reports
  • Secure special attachments to equipment
  • Operate GPS (Global Positioning System) and other navigation equipment
  • Operate two-way radios and other communication equipment
  • Perform minor repairs to equipment
  • Operate hydraulic pumping systems

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

  • Heavy Equipment Operator Trade Certification
  • Driver's License (Class 3 or D)
  • First Aid Certificate

Type of heavy equipment operated

  • Backhoe excavator, loader
  • Caterpillar (CAT) controls
  • Bulldozer, large or small
  • Cable shovel, large or small
  • Trencher, large or small
  • Grader
  • Loader
  • Asphalt spreader
  • Concrete spreader
  • Pulverizing, stabilizing machine
  • Compactor
  • Concrete pumping equipment
  • Paver
  • Roller
  • Scraper
  • Operate forklift
  • Front end loader
  • Dump truck
  • Gravel or dump truck
  • Industrial lift trucks and fork-lifts
  • Bobcats

Area of work experience

  • Asphalt finishing
  • Backfilling
  • Ditching
  • Excavation
  • Fine grading and finishing
  • Haul road maintenance
  • Land clearing
  • Landscaping
  • Material handling
  • Rough grading
  • Slope grooming
  • Sloping and banking
  • Snow removal
  • Stock piling
  • Stripping
  • Stumping
  • Sub-grade excavating
  • Sub-grade rolling
  • Trenching

Type of industry experience

  • Industrial/commercial/institutional (ICI) construction
  • Large diameter pipeline construction
  • Oil and Gas Well Sites
  • Quarrying
  • Residential construction
  • Road construction
  • Surface mining

Security and safety

Criminal record check

Transportation/travel information

Valid driver's licence

Work conditions and physical capabilities

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

Own tools/equipment

Steel-toed safety boots

Employment terms options

Morning

Experience

Experience an asset

Employment terms options

  • Day
  • Weekend

Health benefits

Health care plan

Support for newcomers and refugees

Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports newcomers and/or refugees

Support for Indigenous people

Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports Indigenous people


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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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