Equipment Operator - Hydrovac Truck
- Traverse City, MI
- $23.00-28.00 per hour
- Temporary
- Full-time
- Hydrovac for hydro excavation, utility spotting, dewatering, basin cleaning, and jetting of sanitary lines.
- Check vehicles to ensure that mechanical, safety, and emergency equipment is in good working order.
- Report vehicle defects, accidents, traffic violations, or damage to the vehicles.
- Obtain receipts or signatures for delivered goods and collect payment for services when required.
- Read tickets to determine assignment details.
- Read and interpret maps to determine vehicle routes.
- Maintain cleanliness of the truck inside and out. Cleaning of suction tubes and rear spoils storage area.
- Perform pre-trip and post-trip inspections.
- Operation monitoring - watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to ensure the machine works properly.
- Time Management - Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
- Monitoring - Monitoring/Assessing the performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Assemble and disassemble the suction tubes to reach the required depths.
- Become familiar with the Hydrovac truck, the machine's capabilities, and limitations, and with efficient and safe operation procedures in a given application.
- Observe hand signals, grade stakes, or other markings when operating machines so that work can be performed to specifications.
- Receive written or oral instructions regarding material movement or excavation.
- Able to work by themselves.
- Lubricate, adjust or repair machinery and replace parts, such as rubber and steel suction tubing and high-pressure water lines.
- Recognize proper sloping to achieve an OSHA-safe excavation.
- Perform manual labor to prepare or finish sites, such as shoveling materials by hand.
- Know and follow all company safety policies as well as OSHA, MIOSHA, MSHA, and ANSI regulations.
- Valid license, CDL A or B
- Clean driving record for the past 5 years