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Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators - 53-7032.00

O*NET-SOC Description

Operate or tend machinery equipped with scoops, shovels, or buckets, to excavate and load loose materials.

Sample of Reported Job Titles

  • Loader Operator
  • Dragline Operator
  • Heavy Equipment Operator
  • Equipment Operator
  • Backhoe Operator
  • Track Hoe Operator
  • Dragline Oiler
  • Operating Engineer
  • Pit Operator
  • End Loader Operator

SOC Occupation Groups

53-0000 Transportation and Material Moving Occupations
53-7000 Material Moving Workers
53-7030 Dredge, Excavating, and Loading Machine Operators
53-7032.00 Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators

Related Occupations

Tasks

  • 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.

Detailed Work Activities

  • 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

Military Crosswalk Titles

No information available.

Apprenticeship Crosswalk Titles

  • Dragline Operator

DOT Crosswalk Titles

  • Coal-Equipment Operator
  • Dragline Operator
  • Harvester Operator
  • Mucking-Machine Operator
  • Power-Shovel Operator
  • Septic-Tank Installer
  • Stripping-Shovel Operator
  • Tower-Excavator Operator