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Skid-Steer Loader Operator
Employer
Alpha Better Landscaping Inc.Date Posted
February 24, 2025Languages
English-
Location Calgary, AB
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Earnings $24.00 to $30.00 hourly (to be negotiated)
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Work Hours 40 to 50 hours per week
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Position Seasonal Full Time
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Vacancies 10  Vacancies
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Closing Date Apr 20, 2025
Employer
Alpha Better Landscaping Inc.
Languages
English
Education
No degree, certificate or diploma
Work site environment
- Outdoors
- Hot
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
- Use International Organization for Standardization (ISO) pattern joystick controls
- Clean and lubricate equipment and refill equipment tanks
- Measure distance, volume, length and weight
- Conduct pre-operational checks on equipment
- Secure special attachments to equipment
- Operate hydraulic pumping systems
Type of heavy equipment operated
- Backhoe excavator, loader
- Caterpillar (CAT) controls
- Loader
- Front end loader
- Dump truck
- Gravel or dump truck
- Bobcats
Equipment and machinery experience
Skidsteer
Area of work experience
- Backfilling
- Excavation
- Fine grading and finishing
- Landscaping
- Rough grading
- Sloping and banking
- Snow removal
Transportation/travel information
- Own transportation
- Own vehicle
- Valid driver's licence
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Fast-paced environment
- Overtime required
Own tools/equipment
- Steel-toed safety boots
- Gloves
Screening questions
- Are you available for the advertised start date?
- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
Experience
2 years to less than 3 years
Health benefits
- Dental plan
- Health care plan
- Paramedical services coverage
- Vision care benefits
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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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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.
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