Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events:
- Identifies workplace hazards that are likely to cause damage or injury to equipment or personnel.
Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings:
- Monitors work situations to ensure safe operating conditions are implemented and maintained and adhere to OSHA/TOSHA guidelines.
Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment:
- Operates and utilizes a variety of equipment including but not limited to bulldozers, backhoes, road graders, dump trucks, tractors, dirt pans and bush hogs.
- Coordinates machine actions with other activities, positioning or moving loads in response to hand or audio signals from crew members; observe grade stakes, or other markings when operating machines so that work can be performed to specifications.
- Operates a tractor and trailer to load, off-load, and transport equipment between jobs.
- Utilizes a variety of equipment and tools to move, load, off-load, haul, and stockpile dirt, refuse, and other materials; dig holes, trenches, and ditches; clean culverts; grade roads.
- Operates machinery to perform activities such as backfilling excavations, vibrating or breaking rock or concrete, or making roads, including logging roads.
- Drives trucks with capacities greater than 3 tons, including tractor-trailer combinations, to transport and deliver products, or other materials.
- Drives and maneuvers equipment equipped with blades in successive passes over working areas to remove topsoil, vegetation, or rocks or to distribute and level earth or terrain.
- Starts engines, moves throttles, turns dials, switches, or levers, or depress pedals to operate machines, such as bulldozers, excavators, road graders, dirt pan, or backhoes.
- Drives trucks to weigh stations before and after loading and along routes to document weights and to comply with state regulations.
Making Decisions and Solving Problems:
- Takes actions to avoid potential hazards or obstructions, such as utility lines, other equipment, other workers, or falling objects.
Getting Information:
- Reads and understands operating manuals, blueprints, and technical drawings.
- Becomes familiar with digging plans, machine capabilities and limitations, and with efficient and safe digging procedures in a given application.
- Checks vehicles to ensure that mechanical, safety, and emergency equipment is in good working order.
- Examines parts for damage or excessive wear.
- Checks fuel supplies at sites to ensure adequate availability.
- Obtains receipts or signatures for delivered goods and collect payment for services when required.
- Collects delivery instructions from appropriate sources, verifying instructions and routes.
Training and Teaching Others:
- Assists with training of new personnel within the work unit, including worksite safety requirements and job site standards.
Handling and Moving Objects:
- Adjusts hand wheels and depress pedals to control attachments, such as blades, buckets, scrapers, or swing booms.
- Secures cargo for transport, using ropes, blocks, chain, binders, or covers.
- Moves materials over short distances, such as around a job site or warehouse.
- Sets up or inspects equipment prior to operation.
Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards:
- Learns and follows safety regulations to protect the State's human resources, materiel assets, property, natural and wildlife resources, the environment, and the public.
Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment:
- Repairs and replaces damaged or worn parts.
- Tests mechanical products and equipment after repair to ensure proper performance.
- Cleans, lubricates, refills, adjusts, or repairs equipment/machinery/vehicles and replace parts, such as gears, bearings, hydraulic lines, or bucket teeth.
Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships:
- Maintains professional working relationships with peers, supervisors, and with upper management to ensure smooth and effective team operations.
Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates:
- Receives written or oral instructions regarding material movement or excavation.
- Reports vehicle defects, accidents, traffic violations, or damage to the vehicles.
Documenting/Recording Information:
- Maintains logs of working hours or of vehicle/equipment service or repair status, following applicable state and federal regulations.
Thinking Creatively:
- Identifies the need to create and implement specialized equipment or tools to resolve work site issues.
Performing Administrative Activities:
- Submits all required administrative documentation and reports as scheduled, including but not limited to travel reimbursement, procurement card expenditures, etc.
Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material:
- Conducts pre-operational checks on equipment to ensure proper functioning.
Performing General Physical Activities:
- Navigates work sites for short or long periods of time by walking, crawling, climbing, bending, stooping to access work areas under construction.