Operate or tend machinery equipped with scoops, shovels, or buckets, to excavate and load loose materials.
- Coal-Equipment Operator
- Dragline Operator
- Harvester Operator
- Mucking-Machine Operator
- Power-Shovel Operator
- Septic-Tank Installer
- Stripping-Shovel Operator
- Tower-Excavator Operator
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- Adjust dig face angles for varying overburden depths and set lengths.
- Become familiar with digging plans, machine capabilities and limitations, and with efficient and safe digging procedures in a given application.
- Create and maintain inclines and ramps, and handle slides, mud, and pit cleanings and maintenance.
- Direct ground workers engaged in activities such as moving stakes or markers, or changing positions of towers.
- Direct workers engaged in placing blocks and outriggers in order to prevent capsizing of machines when lifting heavy loads.
- Drive machines to work sites.
- Lubricate, adjust, and repair machinery, and replace parts such as gears, bearings, and bucket teeth.
- Measure and verify levels of rock or gravel, bases, and other excavated material.
- Move levers, depress foot pedals, and turn dials to operate power machinery such as power shovels, stripping-shovels, scraper loaders, or backhoes.
- Move materials over short distances, such as around a construction site, factory, or warehouse.
- Observe hand signals, grade stakes, and other markings when operating machines so that work can be performed to specifications.
- Operate machinery to perform activities such as backfilling excavations, vibrating or breaking rock or concrete, and making winter roads.
- Perform manual labor to prepare or finish sites, such as shoveling materials by hand.
- Receive written or oral instructions regarding material movement or excavation.
- Set up and inspect equipment prior to operation.
- direct and coordinate activities of workers or staff
- inspect material moving equipment
- load, unload, or stack containers, materials, or products
- maintain or repair construction machinery or equipment
- measure, weigh, or count products or materials
- operate crane in construction, manufacturing or repair setting
- operate earth-moving or other heavy construction equipment
- operate material moving, loading, or unloading equipment
- perform safety inspections in construction or resource extraction setting
- read work order, instructions, formulas, or processing charts
- use hand or power tools
- use measuring devices in construction or extraction work
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