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MasTec

Infrastructure engineering and construction for energy

Heavy Equipment Operator - Excavator, Dozer

Building TradesConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeColumbia, SC, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Construction-related experience in roads, highways, bridges, or similar work, with 5–9+ years of experience operating an excavator or bulldozer.
  • Documentation evidencing competency or certifications required by industry standards or governmental agencies.
  • Preferred completion of high school or secondary education.
  • Ability to demonstrate proficiency in equipment handling, pre-start and post-start inspections, maneuvering, shutdown, and securing procedures.
  • Ability to work various shifts in a team environment.
  • Ability to perform daily safety and operational equipment inspections using documented checklists, identify malfunctioning parts, report deficiencies, perform minor repairs as needed, and communicate damages or breakdowns to the Supervisor and Fleet Department.
  • Understanding of equipment operation characteristics, controls, capacity limitations, emergency response, fire, power-line contact, tipping, malfunctions, and performance considerations for the equipment used.
  • Ability to climb on and off heavy mobile equipment safely.
  • Ability to lift and carry 50–80 pounds frequently and up to 150 pounds with assistance, including loading materials into a bucket by hand when needed.
  • Experience placing and removing TBW construction concrete barriers, including loading and unloading them from trucks.
  • Ability to communicate effectively and maintain situational awareness of concurrent construction-site activities, including other employees and contractors and stationary and mobile equipment.
  • Ability to maintain a level grade while spreading and balancing material, recovering spoil material, or loading from a stockpile.
  • Understanding of graded-stake terminology and survey stakes, including cut and fill terms.
  • Ability to load trucks, including up to 20 trucks at a stockpile when assigned.
  • Experience changing equipment attachments, including forks, booms, and hydraulic hammers.
  • Knowledge of equipment maximum capacities.
  • Awareness of utility locations near the work area before work begins, and ability to request utility logs or visible utility locations before excavation.
  • Ability to request and lead a ground person when needed for utility location and grade checking.
  • Ability to ensure employees working near the equipment remain outside its maximum reach.
  • Ability to secure equipment with pins before leaving it, and to shut it down and remove the key when it is being washed or maintained.
  • Ability to meet the physical requirements of the role, including occasional lifting or carrying up to 50 pounds, reaching above, bending or stooping, and continuous hand manipulation; close, color, peripheral, and depth vision and focus adjustment; and hearing equipment signals, horns, alarms, radio, and phone communications.
  • Position is safety-sensitive and subject to the requirements of that designation.

Responsibilities

  • Operate heavy equipment, including excavators, dozers, graders, dump trucks, front-end loaders, compactors, scrapers, and water trucks, to move materials to and from designated areas.
  • Participate in required training and follow established safety rules, procedures, policies, and Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Mine Safety and Health Administration regulations.
  • Perform daily safety and operational inspections of assigned equipment, report deficiencies, carry out minor repairs as needed, and communicate damage or mechanical breakdowns to the Supervisor and Fleet Department.
  • Ensure regular maintenance of assigned equipment is scheduled and performed in accordance with its operations and maintenance manual.
  • Take responsibility for all safety aspects of operating the equipment.
  • Assist with other duties as required when not operating equipment.
  • Load and unload construction concrete barriers and materials as required.
  • Maintain a level grade while spreading, balancing, or recovering material and loading from stockpiles; load trucks as assigned.
  • Check for utilities before excavation, request utility-location information, and lead a ground person for utility location or grade checking when necessary.
  • Keep nearby employees outside the equipment’s maximum reach, secure the equipment before leaving it, and shut it down and remove the key when it is being washed or maintained.

Desired Qualifications

  • Knowledge of electronic grade lasers.

About the Company

MasTec

Infrastructure engineering and construction for energy

MasTec is a North American infrastructure engineering and construction company focused on energy, utility, and communications networks. It engineers, builds, installs, maintains, and upgrades power plants, renewable energy facilities, and related infrastructure, and helps clients with site selection, sizing, materials, and construction planning. It differentiates itself by its large workforce, end-to-end capabilities across engineering, construction, maintenance, and upgrades, and its sector focus on utilities, communications, and government clients, including natural gas and renewable energy facilities. Its goal is to deliver reliable, safe, and efficient infrastructure that supports energy delivery, connectivity, and the expansion of renewable energy capacity.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Coral Gables, FL
Founded
1929

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