Precision Excavator Operator — Site Prep & Grading

Prince Contracting, LLC; Sarasota (FL); On-site; USD 42,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

Prince Contracting, LLC is seeking a skilled earthwork equipment operator to excavate, move, and grade earth, erect structures, and pour hard surfaces. The role may involve repairing and maintaining equipment as part of daily duties.

Responsibilities include following safety regulations, avoiding hazards, operating bulldozers and similar machines, locating underground services, and coordinating with crew signals for efficient site work.

Qualifications

• Understand work directions and communicate effectively with job site foremen, supervisor and fellow employees.
• Work eight to ten hours per day, outdoors in all types of weather, including extreme heat.
• Job requires standing, kneeling, lifting up to sixty pounds, pulling, squatting and walking.
• Maintains constant awareness of the jobsite’s concurrent activities, including other employees, contractors, equipment operation.

Responsibilities

• Learn and follow safety regulations.
• Take actions to avoid hazards or obstructions (e.g., utilities, other equipment, workers, falling objects).
• Adjust handwheels and depress pedals to control attachments (blades, buckets, scrapers, booms).
• Start engines, move throttles and levers to operate machines (bulldozers, trench excavators, road graders, backhoes).
• Locate underground services prior to starting work.
• Monitor operations to meet health and safety standards.
• Align depth gauge or ground equipment using reference stakes and signals from crew.
• Load and move dirt, rocks, equipment, or materials using trucks, tractors, cranes, shovels, graders.
• Coordinate machine actions with other activities and hand/audio signals.
• Operate tractors or bulldozers for land clearing, roadwork, or grading.
• Repair and maintain equipment including emergency adjustments.
• Check fuel supplies at sites for adequacy.
• Connect hoses, belts, linkages, or power takeoff to tractors.
• Operate loaders to clear, grade, or remove debris and do general cleanup.
• Attach bulldozer blades or tools to tractors using hitches.
• Signal operators to guide movement of tractor-drawn machines.
• Push other equipment when extra traction is needed.
• Keep records of material or equipment usage and issues.
• Operate equipment to demolish debris or remove snow from streets.

Job description

Prince Contracting, LLC is seeking a skilled earthwork equipment operator to excavate, move, and grade earth, erect structures, and pour hard surfaces. The role may involve repairing and maintaining equipment as part of daily duties.

Responsibilities include following safety regulations, avoiding hazards, operating bulldozers and similar machines, locating underground services, and coordinating with crew signals for efficient site work.