Equipment Operator

Overview

At Haskell, you’re not just joining a company—you’re joining a nationally recognized Top Workplace where diverse perspectives and inclusive thinking drive stronger outcomes. Whether you’re starting out, growing your expertise, or leading the way, you’ll find a culture grounded in trust, driven by excellence, and built to support your goals. Here, you’ll have the opportunity, flexibility, and sense of belonging to grow your career your way—while making a real impact.

Operates several types of heavy power construction equipment, such as large excavators, bulldozers, and backhoes, moving graded soil and materials for the installation of large pipe, tanks, steel, and all soil and structure related construction materials. Safely operates forklift for material handling and site logistics, which may include offloading or loading trucks and positioning material for installation.

• Operate forklift in a safe manner, understanding load capacities and terrain limitations.
• Adjust hand wheels and levers, depress pedals to drive machines and control attachments such as blades, buckets, scrapers, and swing booms.
• Control levers and pedals on assigned equipment to lower bucket or scoop up material, and to lift, swing, or dump material.
• Excavate for piping and structures including but not limited to water, sewer, and storm drain.
• Excavate around existing utilities and structures safely and precisely.
• Excavate to proper trench depths using construction drawings, levels, lasers, etc.
• Install trench boxes and shoring at all depths required by individual tasks.
• Communicate with hand signals to move construction materials.
• Follow directions from onsite superintendent/supervisor.
• Complete Haskell’s daily trenching and excavation form and fully understand Haskell’s Utility Strike Prevention program.
• Complete and log daily inspections of all equipment.
• Execute equipment maintenance routines such as cleaning, greasing, fueling, etc.
• Use rigging and rigging best practices to unload, lower, raise, etc. construction materials.
• Travel as required.
• Other duties which may be assigned as needed.

High school diploma required; minimum 4 years of experience operating heavy equipment in a construction environment.

• Must be certified to operate forklift and provide documentation prior to use.
• Read and understand engineered drawings and specifications.
• Knowledge of builder's levels, grade rods, rotating lasers, and pipe lasers.
• Judge distances and slopes accurately and make decisions based on verifiable standards.
• Knowledge of hand signals and ability to relay hand signals effectively.
• Certification in rigging.
• Knowledge of excavation trenching and shoring best practices.
• Act as a competent person for trenching and shoring.
• Communicate effectively with co-workers and supervisors.
• OSHA 10 or 30.
• Ability to understand and execute the company vision and values of Team, Excellence, Service, and Trust.

• Strategy – Planning for the Future:
  Developing talent, organizational alignment, strategic networking, and strategic thinking.
• Delivery – Achieving Results:
  Analytical thinking, problem solving and decision making, results driven, flexible thinking, managing resources, teamwork, and team leadership.
• Interpersonal – Building Relationships:
  Customer focus, influencing, negotiating, organizational knowledge, communication and presence, diversity and inclusion.

While performing the duties of this job, team members may be required to visit alternate locations and therefore must have ordinary ambulatory skills sufficient to do so. This position requires the ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and manipulate (lift, carry, move) light to medium weights of 10‑50 pounds. Requires good hand‑eye coordination, arm, hand, and finger dexterity, including ability to grasp, and visual acuity to use a keyboard, operate equipment and read application/form information.

The team member is frequently required to sit, reach with hands and arms, talk, and hear.

Haskell is a Drug‑Free Workplace and an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender, gender identity or gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances.