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

• 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