Equipment Operator

Final date to receive applications

Submit online applications by 11:59 p.m. on August 2, 2026.

Title: Equipment Operator 2
Location: Pullman, WA 99164
Employment Type: Full time, Classified, Permanent
Benefits: Comprehensive package including paid leave, medical, dental, life insurance, retirement, deferred compensation, supplemental retirement accounts, training, and tuition waiver.

Monthly salary: $4,746 to $5,506 (Range 45G, Steps G-M). Salary increments are scheduled in accordance with WAC 357-28.

• Operate heavy equipment for material moving, snow removal, street repair, utility excavations, and other maintenance or construction activities.
• Follow operating manuals, safety manuals, construction plans, and grade stakes.
• Work varying shifts and perform hands‑on skills tests for excavation of buried utilities.

• Three (3) years of experience operating and maintaining heavy equipment such as bulldozers, graders, excavators, cranes, or similar.
• Full journey status as a Heavy Equipment Operator through work experience, apprenticeship, or equivalent.
• Valid driver’s license meeting SPPM 7.10 and departmental driving standards.
• Valid Class A CDL (or ability to obtain by hire).
• Ability to work varying shifts.
• Hands‑on skills test pass for the excavation of buried utilities.
• Journey level skills on multiple equipment types: backhoes, excavators, motor graders, small cranes, boom trucks, sweepers, front end loaders, telescopic boom forklifts, sewer vacuum/jetting machines, and various truck configurations.

• Four (4) years of full‑time journey level heavy equipment operator experience (backhoes, excavators, graders, loaders).
• Experience in utility/maintenance, street and road construction, maintenance, and repair.
• Snow plowing/removal experience.
• Underground utility installation and maintenance experience.
• Street and road construction/maintenance experience.

This position requires a background check due to duties involving children or vulnerable adults and access to university facilities. Background checks are performed after initial qualification.

Washington State University does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, national or ethnic origin, physical disability, mental disability, sensory disability, use of a trained service animal, age, religion, creed, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or immigration or citizenship status, except as authorized by federal or state law, regulation, or government contract.