Heavy Equipment Operator

Thank you for your interest in joining our team! Cooper Consolidated is a balanced, asset‑based provider of midstream stevedoring, barge, marine, and logistics services. With operations based along the lower Mississippi River between Southwest Pass and Baton Rouge, we provide cargo handling and movements throughout the U.S. inland waterway system. Our expert team ensures your important cargo is safely transported from origin to destination while keeping the experience as easy and worry‑free as possible.

At Cooper Consolidated, our goal is to be the leader in the cargo‑handling industry. The key to this rests squarely with our people, and the backbone of how our people operate is our unique culture. The CC Way – 28 principles of our high‑performing culture – describes the values, behaviors, and practices that are the foundation of this culture.

This role is primarily responsible for operating and maintaining heavy equipment, including bobcats, cherry pickers, tractors, front‑end loaders, man lifts, backhoes, forklifts, dock cranes, and floating cranes, as supported by the area.

• Fully participate in the company Safety Program and attend daily pre‑shift meetings.
• Perform all duties within compliance of OSHA, company safety, and environmental regulations (ISO where applicable); including wearing appropriate PPE for the task being performed.
• Receive work orders from supervisory personnel.
• Communicate flagging instructions to personnel, when/as required.
• Inspect heavy equipment and/or verify inspection prior to use; look for defects and ensure proper working order of equipment each shift and complete necessary checklists.
• Inspect and maintain rigging.
• Start‑up equipment and perform duties as per assigned work orders.
• Track assigned work and report completion of duties to supervisory personnel.
• Coordinate equipment locations within working areas with appropriate personnel/flagmen.
• Assist maintenance personnel with preventive maintenance and equipment repairs, when required.
• Perform rigging inspections.
• Perform cover handling; may perform barge cover handling/barge drafting.
• Operate other equipment as required.
• Properly shut down equipment and secure upon completion of assigned task.
• Other duties as assigned.

High school diploma or equivalent, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Preferred – 6 months’ experience working in an industrial environment with a dependable work record; experience in operation of additional heavy equipment.

• Thorough knowledge of the operation and maintenance of assigned equipment.
• Thorough knowledge of the occupational hazards of the work and of necessary safety precautions for the safe operation of assigned equipment.
• Working knowledge and understanding of proper methods for lifting machine/loads per equipment utilized in job duties performed.
• Effective interpersonal, oral and written communication skills with the ability to interact with all levels of people within and outside the organization.
• Ability to identify operating deficiencies and defects, determine the necessary corrective measures, and make minor repairs/service to assigned equipment.
• Ability to remain focused on exceptional customer service, both internally and externally.
• Ability to safely maneuver equipment in tight spaces.
• Ability to work extended hours, evenings, weekends, and holidays, as needed.
• Must have reliable transportation to get to and from work sites; work site location will depend on business needs and will typically be in the following parishes:
  Ascension, Jefferson, Plaquemines, Orleans, St. Charles, St. James, St. John the Baptist, West Baton Rouge.

• Ability to lift/push/pull 45 lbs. occasionally.
• Ability to climb, crawl, stoop, kneel and balance.
• Acutely aware of surroundings with ability to quickly adjust to a signal or change in environment.
• Ability to understand and communicate verbally, in person and over two‑way radio.
• Ability to work outside in extreme weather conditions.
• Able to perform work in confined spaces.
• Ability to work around/on deep water; where applicable.
• Ability to work in an…