12N Horizontal Construction Engineers

National Guard; Moundsville (WV); On-site; USD 20,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition assistance

Paid training

Learn while you earn

Job summary

Army National Guard is seeking Horizontal Construction Engineers to perform heavy equipment operations and site preparation. You will level earth for runways and roadbeds, clear areas, excavate, and move materials to support construction and combat engineer missions.

You will learn to operate bulldozers, roadgraders, cranes, and other equipment while earning an active paycheck and pursuing civilian construction career skills through training and tuition assistance.

Qualifications

• Operate heavy construction equipment such as bulldozers, roadgraders, and cranes.
• Learn to level earth for runways and roadbeds, clear, excavate and move materials.
• Outdoor work orientation and willingness to train with pay.

Responsibilities

• Analyze grade stakes and place them.
• Cut and spread fill material with scraper.

Job description

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

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.

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.

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.