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Tunnelling Machine Operator
Employer
The Tunneling CompanyDate Posted
January 22, 2025Languages
English-
Location Rocky View, AB
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Earnings $55.00 to $65.00 hourly (to be negotiated)
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Work Hours 32 to 40 hours per week
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Position Permanent Full Time
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Vacancies 1  Vacancy
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Closing Date Feb 21, 2025
Employer
The Tunneling Company
Languages
English
Education
No degree, certificate or diploma
Work site environment
- Outdoors
- Dusty
Work setting
- Room and board provided
- Various locations
- Willing to relocate
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
- Operate computer controlled equipment
- Understand the purpose, proper usgage and information found on material safety data sheets (MSDS)
- Complete onboard and other logs
- Conduct pre-operational checks on equipment
- Prepare accident reports
- Secure special attachments to equipment
- Operate two-way radios and other communication equipment
- Perform minor repairs to equipment
- Operate hydraulic pumping systems
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) Certificate
- Hydrogen Sulphide Awareness (H2S) Certificate
- CPR Certificate
- First Aid Certificate
- Construction Safety Training Systems (CSTS) Certificate
- Fall Arrest Protection Training Course
- Transportation of Dangerous Goods (TDG) Certificate
- Ground Disturbance - Level II program
Type of industry experience
Large diameter pipeline construction
Area of specialization
Tunnelling
Security and safety
Drug test
Transportation/travel information
Valid driver's licence
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Attention to detail
- Overtime required
Own tools/equipment
- Steel-toed safety boots
- Hard hat
- Safety glasses/goggles
- Safety vest
- Gloves
Screening questions
- Are you available for shift or on-call work?
- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Are you willing to relocate for this position?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
Experience
5 years or more
Workplace information
On the road job
Health benefits
- Dental plan
- Health care plan
- Vision care benefits
Important notice: This job posting has been provided by an external employer.The Government of Alberta and the Government of Canada are not responsible for the accuracy, authenticity or reliability of the content.
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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