What are the responsibilities and job description for the Directional Drill Operator position at Berry-It Inc?
Underground Operator (Directional Drill)
Job Summary
- Operators are able to operate the equipment that is used for utility installation including Horizontal Directional Drill (HDD), vibratory plows, trenchers, and excavators.
General Accountabilities
- Operates a directional drills, excavators, trenchers, plows and other similar heavy machine equipment.
- Performs basic maintenance and minor repairs on equipment.
- Maintain all equipment both before and after a job.
- Check and replace all fluids in equipment.
- Able to operate all tools related to the utility industry including hand and power tools of all types.
- Assure that all tools and equipment are accounted for and returned to truck at the end of each day.
- Recognize and identify utility locates and meaning.
- Locates underground services before performing work.
- Must be able to read and understand construction prints.
- Knows how to properly set up traffic control-set up all road safety signs, cones and barrels before the job starts and assure all are accounted for at the end of every day.
- Clean and prepare construction sites to eliminate possible hazards.
- Monitors operations to ensure all health and safety standards are met.
- Aligns machines with reference to stakes, markers or guidelines and/or hand signals of other workers.
- Loads, unloads, and identifies building materials, machinery, and tools.
- Knows how to properly use shoring braces and other temporary structures.
- Signal other equipment operators to facilitate alignment, movement, and adjustment of machinery, equipment, and materials.
- Dig ditches or trenches, backfill excavations, and compact and level earth to grade specifications, using picks, shovels, pneumatic tampers, and rakes.
- Measures, marks, and records openings and distances to lay out areas where construction work will be performed.
- Always have something to do (i.e., grease equipment, clean trucks/trailer/tools, etc) when “down time” is necessary.
- Trains other employees in proper techniques, quality specs, and all work related items as needed.
- Assist Foreman in any Daily/Job paperwork as necessary.
- Attend all training sessions required by management.
- Clean up all jobsites at the end of each day to assure that all trash is removed and the jobsite looks better than before we started the job.
- The company reserves the right to add or change duties at any time.
Job Qualifications
- Education: High school diploma or equivalent
- Experience: At least one year of related experience
- Licenses/Certifications: Class A CDL (preferred); OSHA 10; For-Hire Endorsement (required); DOT physical (required)
- Must meet all Laborer Requirements
Skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Safe Problem Solving Skills
- Stays On Task
- Able To Read Construction Prints
- Critical thinking
