Heavy Equipment Operator Quincy

Location and Shift

Location
:
Quincy Shop
Shift
:
Monday-Thursday 6:00 AM - 4:30 PM

Heavy Equipment Operators provide skilled labor for Public Works roadway maintenance, roadway repair, and new construction work including truck operations, light equipment operations, multiple equipment operations, bridge crew operator, traffic technician operator, crane operator, new roads construction grader, and machine control operations leader.

Apprentice level operators conduct truck operations to support journey level operators. Apprentices can perform any operator duty once they are trained for the task or may aid the work of a journey level operator for tasks they are still learning.

The following examples of duties and accountabilities illustrate the general range of tasks assigned to the position but are not intended to define the limits of required duties. Other essential duties may be assigned consistent with the general scope of the position. Employee must comply with all County and department policies, procedures, WAC’s, or other regulatory bodies.

Heavy equipment operators may be promoted within their existing position, with progressive levels of duties and responsibilities. Heavy Equipment Operator 2 has expertise in:

• Truck Operators (Level
  2):
  Truck operators provide operations of trucks including pickups, light trucks, cars, dump trucks, and truck tractor‑trailer combinations with a variety of attachments such as bottom dumps, auxiliary dump box trailers, liquid tanks, tank trailers, asphalt storage tanks, pavement patchers, lifting booms, snowplows, spreader boxes, compressors, generators, tilt trailers, power brooms, and paint trailers. They also provide skilled labor for hand tools (mechanical, motorized, or pneumatic), routers, crack fillers, pumps, washers, concrete saws, augers, scales, and assistance in operating the chip spreader.

Work is performed both in an office and in the field of various terrain and in various weather conditions. During field work, incumbents may be exposed to dangers to traffic.

The physical abilities described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk, sit, write, hear, speak, and lift up to 50 lbs. of unequal weight. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close and distance vision, peripheral, and depth perception.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.