Operate dredge to remove sand, gravel, or other materials in order to excavate and maintain navigable channels in waterways.

• Direct or assist workers placing shore anchors and cables, laying additional pipes from dredges to shore, and pumping water from pontoons.
• Lower anchor poles to verify depths of excavations, using winches, or scan depth gauges to determine depths of excavations.
• Move levers to position dredges for excavation, to engage hydraulic pumps, to raise and lower suction booms, and to control rotation of cutterheads.
• Pump water to clear machinery pipelines.
• Start and stop engines to operate equipment.
• Start power winches that draw in or let out cables to change positions of dredges, or pull in and let out cables manually.

• direct and coordinate activities of workers or staff
• inspect material moving equipment
• operate earth-moving or other heavy construction equipment
• operate material moving, loading, or unloading equipment
• perform safety inspections in construction or resource extraction setting
• use measuring devices in construction or extraction work

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• Dredge Operator

• Dredge Operator