Heavy
Equipment Operator Jobs at Brubacher
There's more for you at Brubacher. We recognize and respect your unique abilities, and offer you room to advance your career as an equipment operator. You'll be part of a team that exceeds expectations and pushes your performance higher, because a culture of safety and doing things right drives our every action.
Our heavy equipment team is responsible for operating a variety of excavating equipment, from backhoes and dozers to loaders and excavators. Tasks range from digging trenches and earthmoving to land clearing and loading materials. All equipment operators perform daily maintenance, including visual inspections of the machine, checking and filling fluids, and lubricating the machine.
*All Equipment Operators perform daily maintenance, including visual inspections of the machine, checking and filling fluids, and lubricating the machine.
Loader Operator
Operates a rubber tire or track type loader.
Responsibilities:
- Maintaining organized, neatly graded and well drained job site according to plans
- Loading trucks and transporting material to trenches and stone boxes
- Backfilling trenches
- Grading streets after utility installation
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Backhoe Operator
Operates a rubber-tire backhoe.
Responsibilities:
- Maintaining job site and material so it’s organized and well-drained
- Using the bucket or forks to unload and load material onto trucks or within a job site
- Digging trenches for footers, gas, sewer, and water pipe
- Leveling dirt and stone in trenches and small areas
- Supplying stone for stone boxes or trenches
- Backfilling and compacting trenches in proper lifts with hydraulic tamper
Excavator Operator
Operates a tracked excavator. Primary functions are divided between two crews: earth moving or pipe. Both crews require grading slopes, digging trenches to preset grades that meet OSHA requirements for safe benching/shoring or trench shields.
Dirt Crew Responsibilities:
- Efficient loading of earth and rock into dump trucks for bulk earthmoving operations
- Land clearing
- Grubbing
- Demolition
May also work with a variety of attachments (hydraulic breaker, hydraulic tamper, grapple, stump splitter, etc.)
Pipe Crew Responsibilities:
- Excavate for sanitary, storm sewer and water system installations.
- Utilizes trench shields (including double-stacked boxes) and bedding boxes
- Moves and sets the stone and trench boxes
- Sets manholes, inlets and other structures
- Helps in the backfill process
Dozer Operator
Operates a track-type tractor equipped with a blade to move earth and other material for constructing roads, ponds, building areas, etc. Many of our dozers are equipped with GPS. This helps the operator see where cuts and fills need to be, instead of using grade stakes.
Responsibilities:
- Maintaining organized, neatly graded and well drained job site according to plans
- Stripping and grading topsoil
- Building and grading swales and berms
- Pushing scrapers
- Subgrading ½ inch plus or minus with a fine grade dozer on roadways, building pads, parking lots
