What are the responsibilities and job description for the Equipment Operator - Hydrovac Truck position at Team Elmer's?
Equipment Operator - Hydrovac Truck
Team Elmer's seeks to fill this position, hired individual will be the operation and general maintenance of a Hydrovac truck with a rodding system.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Hydrovac for hydro excavation, utility spotting, dewatering, basin cleaning, and jetting of sanitary lines.
- Check vehicles to ensure that mechanical, safety, and emergency equipment is in good working order.
- Report vehicle defects, accidents, traffic violations, or damage to the vehicles.
- Obtain receipts or signatures for delivered goods and collect payment for services when required.
- Read tickets to determine assignment details.
- Read and interpret maps to determine vehicle routes.
- Maintain cleanliness of the truck inside and out. Cleaning of suction tubes and rear spoils storage area.
- Perform pre-trip and post-trip inspections.
- Operation monitoring - watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to ensure the machine works properly.
- Time Management - Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
- Monitoring - Monitoring/Assessing the performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Assemble and disassemble the suction tubes to reach the required depths.
- Become familiar with the Hydrovac truck, the machine's capabilities, and limitations, and with efficient and safe operation procedures in a given application.
- Observe hand signals, grade stakes, or other markings when operating machines so that work can be performed to specifications.
- Receive written or oral instructions regarding material movement or excavation.
- Able to work by themselves.
- Lubricate, adjust or repair machinery and replace parts, such as rubber and steel suction tubing and high-pressure water lines.
- Recognize proper sloping to achieve an OSHA-safe excavation.
- Perform manual labor to prepare or finish sites, such as shoveling materials by hand.
- Know and follow all company safety policies as well as OSHA, MIOSHA, MSHA, and ANSI regulations.
The above list of job duties is not exclusive or exhaustive and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks as may reasonably be expected within the scope of the position.
EEO/AA
Salary : $23 - $28
