Heavy Equipment Operator

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Skills that raise your rate

  • Grader operator

    The hardest machine to run well. The grader puts the final shape on a road before it is paved.

  • GPS (Global Positioning System) machine control

    Modern excavators and dozers follow a 3D design model. Operators who understand the screens and the survey data get the newest machines.

  • Mining haul truck and shovel

    Enormous machines at open-pit mines, usually on long rotations.

  • Pipeline sideboom and rock truck

    Specialty machines on pipeline and northern projects.