12N Horizontal Construction Engineers

Army National Guard; Gate City (VA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 115,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a respected organization where you'll become a Horizontal Construction Engineer, responsible for operating heavy machinery to prepare construction sites. You will develop essential skills in construction methods while earning a paycheck and benefiting from training programs that lead to a civilian career in construction.

Benefits

Tuition assistance

Regular paycheck during training

Qualifications

• Preference for working outdoors.
• Skills in maintenance and repair of equipment gained through training.

Responsibilities

• Operate bulldozers and other heavy equipment to clear construction sites.
• Level earth for runways and roadbeds, and spread fill material.

Skills

Maintenance and repair of equipment

Identification of soil types

Placement of grade stakes

Outdoor work preference

Job description

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Before a road, airfield, or a building can be constructed, all obstacles must be removed from the site. As a Horizontal Construction Engineer in the Army National Guard, you’ll handle the heavy lifting to help your crew succeed. You’ll operate bulldozers, roadgraders, and other massive equipment to clear the way for construction.

Your responsibilities will include leveling earth for runways and roadbeds, clearing, excavating, and digging areas of construction sites, spreading fill material, transporting heavy construction equipment with a tractor-trailer, moving heavy building materials with cranes, and assisting in performance of combat engineer missions.

Job Duties

• Analyze the information on grade stakes and placing them
• Cut and spread fill material with scraper
  
  

Some Of The Skills You’ll Learn

• Maintenance and repair of equipment
• Identification of soil types and placement of grade stakes
  
  

Helpful Skills

• Preference for working outdoors
  
  

Through your training, you will develop the skills and experience to enjoy a civilian career in basic construction methods and engineering principles, particularly as they pertain to operating heavy construction equipment. Plus, you may earn specialized certifications that enable you to step right into a civilian construction career.

Earn While You Learn

Instead of paying to learn these skills, get paid to train. In the Army National Guard, you will learn these valuable job skills while earning a regular paycheck and qualifying for tuition assistance.

Job training for Horizontal Construction Engineers consists of nine weeks of Basic Training, where you'll learn basic Soldiering skills, and nine weeks of Advanced Individual Training. Part of this time is spent in the classroom and part in the field.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Internship

Employment type

• Employment type

  Part-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

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