Job Title:                     Operator (GPS Bulldozer)

Craft:                            Dirt

Reports to:                  Foreman

Exempt Status:           Non-exempt (hourly)

Position Objective/Description:  

Responsible for the safe and efficient operation of a GPS Bulldozer.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Take action to avoid potential hazards and obstructions, such as utility lines, other equipment, other workers, and falling objects.

• Start engines, move throttles, switches, and levers, and depress pedals to operate such stated machines.

• Locate underground services, such as pipes and wires, prior to beginning work.

• Monitor operations to ensure that health and safety standards are met.

• Align machines with reference stakes and guidelines or ground or position equipment, following hand signals of other workers.

• Load and move dirt, rocks, equipment, and materials, using trucks, crawler tractors, shovels, graders, or related equipment.

• Coordinate machine actions with other activities, positioning or moving loads in response to hand or audio signals from crew members.

• Maintain cleanliness and good condition of trucks

• Perform minor maintenance to include cleaning, lubricating and refilling equipment

• Check fluid levels, maintain tires pressures and change implements or attachments

• Performs all duties in conformance to appropriate safety and security standards.

• Work closely with ground crew to achieve project objectives

  Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of heavy equipment used in dirt operations , their capacities and physical limitations, and issues involved in ground disturbance

• Safe driving abilities and strict adherence to safety requirements and procedures

• Able to listen, follow directions, and have a willingness to continue to enhance skills

• Effective communications with jobsite supervisor and co-workers

• General knowledge of road construction processes.

• Demonstrate a safety first attitude. Strict adherence to safety requirements and procedures.

• Display a professional and courteous attitude to co-workers, supervisors, and the general public

• Ability to work nights and weekends when necessary

• Must have reliable transportation, and ability to travel to assigned worksites

• In-depth knowledge of construction procedures, equipment, and OSHA guidelines.

  Physical Demands:

• Constant physical effort, including extended sitting for at least 8 hour shift

• Intermittent walking and standing on a construction site.

• Climb intermittently

• Regularly twist, bend, stoop, kneel and crouch to perform duties

• Regularly reach above shoulder level

• Regularly push/pull objects

• Must be physically able to repetitively lift, push, pull and/or carry at least 50 pounds occasionally, and sometimes heavier weight.

• Agility, balance, and manual dexterity, as well as arm-hand steadiness

• Able to hear and respond to oral instructions in a noisy environment.

• Regularly required to use hands and fingers to handle, feel or operate objects, tools or controls, and reach and grasp with hands and arms.

• Excellent hand, eye and foot coordination.

• Good vision, depth perception, peripheral vision and the ability to adjust focus

  Education / Experience:

• High School diploma or general education degree (GED)

• 3 recent years’ experience running, maneuvering, driving, and navigating equipment such as bulldozers, excavators, rollers, and front-end loaders.

• Must have previous GPS Dozer experience.

• Osha 10 certified, preferred

• Active Driver’s license

  Work Environment:

  Regularly works in outside weather conditions, including extreme heat and humidity.  Frequently works near moving mechanical parts and is frequently exposed to wet or humid conditions and vibration. Handles various toxic products such as epoxies, grouts, sealers, paints and cleaners, with exposure to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and risks of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.

  Other Duties:

  Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

  Approved By __    

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  Acknowledged By _     __

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Jr. Davis Construction Company, Inc. is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and is actively recruiting women and minorities for all open positions.

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