Heavy Equipment Operator (GPS Dozer)
Phillips, Inc.
- West Palm Beach, FL
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Learn and follow safety regulations
- Take actions to avoid potential hazards or obstructions, such as utility lines, other equipment, other workers, or falling objects
- Locate underground services, such as pipes or wires, prior to beginning work
- Monitor operations to ensure that health and safety standards are met
- Adjust hand wheels and depress pedals to control attachments, such as blades, buckets, scrapers, or swing booms
- Start engines; move throttles, switches, or levers; or depress pedals to operate machines, such as bulldozers, trench excavators, road graders, or backhoes
- Coordinate machine actions with other activities, position or move loads in response to hand or audio signals from crew members
- Load and move dirt, rocks, equipment, or other materials using trucks, crawler tractors, power cranes, shovels, graders, or related equipment
- Check fuel supplies at sites to ensure adequate availability
- Drive and maneuver equipment with blades in successive passes over working areas to remove topsoil, vegetation, or rocks or to distribute and level earth or terrain
- Follow safety regulations
- Follow instructions and meet set standards
- Judge distances and slopes accurately
- Make decisions based on verifiable standards
- Must be able to stoop, bend, and crouch and use hands, arms, and legs fully
- Must have good vision and hearing (either naturally or with correction)
- Frequently lift up to 80 pounds, and the ability to carry objects weighing 50 pounds or less
- Work dusty or dirty surroundings
- Pass construction equipment operator qualification testing/observation
- High School Diploma preferred
- Two-three years verifiable and relevant experience