Roadway Heavy Equipment Operator – CDL Ready

South Carolina Department of Transportation; South Carolina; Vor Ort; USD 35.000 - 48.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

The South Carolina Department of Transportation is seeking a skilled operator to handle heavy equipment for highway vegetation management. Responsibilities include operating backhoes and slope mowers, maintaining ditch banks, and performing related tools-based tasks along state-maintained highways.

Candidate must have at least one year of related experience, a valid driver's license, and must obtain a Class A CDL within six months.

Qualifikationen

• One year of related work experience or approved equivalence.
• A valid motor vehicle operator’s license is required.
• Requires attainment of a Class A Commercial Driver's License (CDL) within six months of placement.

Aufgaben

• Operate backhoe to slope highway shoulders and ditch banks along state maintained highways.
• Perform vegetation management using heavy equipment such as slope mowers and tractors with ditcher.
• Perform vegetation operations on bridges and structures not handled by contractors.
• Coordinate placement of traffic control devices to set up maintenance work zones per SCDOT manuals.
• Use hand tools and power tools like chainsaws, hedgers, weed eaters, tree pruners, rakes, shovels, and wrenches.
• Remove litter, debris and dead animals from roadway and rights-of-way.
• Assist in emergency/inclement weather operations (snow/ice, hurricanes) and may require extended hours or 12-hour shifts.

Kenntnisse

Heavy equipment

CDL Class A

Jobbeschreibung

The South Carolina Department of Transportation is seeking a skilled operator to handle heavy equipment for highway vegetation management. Responsibilities include operating backhoes and slope mowers, maintaining ditch banks, and performing related tools-based tasks along state-maintained highways.

Candidate must have at least one year of related experience, a valid driver's license, and must obtain a Class A CDL within six months.