Night-Shift Airfield Tractor Operator: Grounds & Equipment

TRDI Incorporated; Del Rio (TX); On-site; USD 23,000 - 33,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Vision

Dental

Health & Welfare

Paid Time Off

Paid Holidays

Job summary

TRDI Incorporated seeks a Tractor Operator to attach and operate heavy equipment, including batwing mowers and backhoes, on a field or airport setting. You will prepare, adjust, lubricate and perform minor repairs to tractors and attachments to ensure safe, efficient operation.

The role requires flexibility for evenings, weekends and holidays, with a full-time schedule and a hourly rate of $20.53. Benefits include medical, vision, dental, PTO and paid holidays, and a commitment to safety and

Qualifications

• High school education or GED.
• 1 year relevant work experience operating industrial grade tractors and batwing shredders within a commercial grounds keeping environment.
• Ability to organize effectively, delegate responsibility, solve problems quickly and communicate clearly.
• Ability to manage time effectively and handle both internal and external conflicts.

Responsibilities

• Maintain grounds of industrial, commercial, or public property such as buildings, roadsides, airfields, and athletic fields.
• Minor equipment repairs, performing one or more of the following tasks: cut grass using batwing mowers (more than 2000 lbs.), trim hedges and edges around walks, flowerbeds, and wells.
• Fastens attachments such as graders, plows, rollers, mowers (over 2000 lbs.), backhoes, seeders, and disc harrows to tractor, adjusts equipment for proper operation, lubricates and makes minor repairs to tractor and attachments such as tightening bolts, and replacing washers, cotter pins, and screws.
• Operate industrial grade tractors with batwing shredder attachment within the controlled movement area of an airfield.
• Uses hedge trimmers, clippers and edging tools, prunes shrubs and trees to shape and improve growth, using shears and other hand tools, sprays lawn, shrubs, and trees with fertilizer or insecticide.
• Job duties also include the following: planting grass, flowers, trees, and shrubs, watering lawn and shrubs during dry periods, using hose or activating sprinkler system, picks up and burns/carts away leaves, paper, or other litter.
• String trimmer and backpack blower.
• Pass and maintain any required security clearance requirement and comply with Drug Free Workplace policy.
• Adheres to Operations Security (OPSEC) standard operations procedures.
• Adheres to Property Control Plan for management of Government Furnished Property (GFP).
• Adheres to the safety and health program that complies with EM 385-1-1 and applicable OSHA, DOD, Armed Forces Branch(s), Federal, state, and local safety, environmental and health requirements.
• Maintain a site-specific Accident Prevention Plan (APP) in accordance with Appendix A, EM 385-1-1.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Discretion

Attention to detail

Education

High school diploma or GED

Job description

TRDI Incorporated seeks a Tractor Operator to attach and operate heavy equipment, including batwing mowers and backhoes, on a field or airport setting. You will prepare, adjust, lubricate and perform minor repairs to tractors and attachments to ensure safe, efficient operation.

The role requires flexibility for evenings, weekends and holidays, with a full-time schedule and a hourly rate of $20.53. Benefits include medical, vision, dental, PTO and paid holidays, and a commitment to safety and