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Heavy Equipment Operator

Employer

Professional Excavators & Construction Inc.

Date Posted

September 16, 2026

Languages

English
  • Location Calgary, AB
  • Earnings $30.00 to $40.00 hourly (to be negotiated)
  • Work Hours 30 to 50 hours per week
  • Position Temporary Full Time
  • Vacancies 10  Vacancies
  • Closing Date Oct 07, 2026
Job Requirements

Employer

Professional Excavators & Construction Inc.

Languages

English

Education

No degree, certificate or diploma

Work site environment

  • Outdoors
  • Hot
  • Cold/refrigerated

Tasks

  • Interpret blueprints, maps, drawings and specifications to plan methods or sequences of operation
  • Operate heavy equipment
  • Clean and lubricate equipment and refill equipment tanks
  • Conduct pre-operational checks on equipment
  • Prepare accident reports

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

  • Heavy Equipment Operator Trade Certification
  • Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) Certificate
  • Construction Safety Training Systems (CSTS) Certificate
  • Ground Disturbance - Level 1 program

Type of heavy equipment operated

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

Equipment and machinery experience

Skidsteer

Area of work experience

  • Excavation
  • Fine grading and finishing
  • Land clearing
  • Rough grading
  • Sloping and banking
  • Snow removal
  • Sub-grade excavating
  • Trenching

Type of industry experience

  • Residential construction
  • Road construction

Work conditions and physical capabilities

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

Own tools/equipment

Steel-toed safety boots

Screening questions

  • Do you have experience working in this field?
  • Do you meet the language requirements listed in the job posting for the position (English or French)?

Employment terms options

  • Early morning
  • Evening

Experience

1 year to less than 2 years

Employment terms options

  • Morning
  • Day
  • Weekend
  • Overtime required

Health benefits

  • Dental plan
  • Disability benefits
  • Health care plan
  • Paramedical services coverage
  • Vision care benefits

Financial benefits

  • Group insurance benefits
  • Night shift premium
  • Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)

Long term benefits

Long-term care insurance

Other benefits

  • Learning/training paid by employer
  • Other benefits
  • Parking available
  • Wellness program

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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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