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Heavy Equipment Operator
Employer
COX CONTRACTORS LTDDate Posted
July 07, 2026Languages
English-
Location High Prairie, AB
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Earnings $36.00 hourly
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Work Hours 30 hours per week
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Position Permanent Full Time
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Vacancies 1  Vacancy
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Closing Date Jul 28, 2026
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
- OBJECTIVE
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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
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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
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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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