Pipe Loader Operator Job at Jr. Davis Construction Company, Inc., Florida, FL

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  • Jr. Davis Construction Company, Inc.
  • Florida, FL

Job Description

Job Title:                     Operator (Loader)

Position Objective/Description:  

Responsible for the safe and efficient operation of a pipe loader.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Understand and follow directions from supervisors as to the required work area.
  • Operate Loader controls to lower and tilt buckets and drive forward to force bucket into the bulk material.
  • Ensure a sound understanding of the issues involving ground disturbance.
  • Operate Loader on public or private roadways, maintaining proper awareness of one’s surroundings.
  • Transport aggregate or other materials in a safe and precise manner
  • Maneuver loader and other heavy equipment safely on public or private roadways
  • Loading, delivery, and dumping of materials in a safe and timely manner
  • Move lever to raise and tilt bucket when filled, or to dump material
  • Maintain cleanliness and good condition of trucks
  • Perform daily inspections and safety checks on equipment; reports defects and repairs
  • Perform minor maintenance to include cleaning, lubricating and refilling equipment
  • Check fluid levels, maintain tires pressures and change implements or attachments
  • Performs all duties in conformance to appropriate safety and security standards.
  • Work closely with ground crew to achieve project objectives

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  • Knowledge of heavy equipment used in excavation, backfilling, and loading operations, their capacities and physical limitations, and issues involved in ground disturbance
  • Safe driving abilities and strict adherence to safety requirements and procedures
  • Able to listen, follow directions, and have a willingness to continue to enhance skills
  • Effective communications with jobsite supervisor and co-workers
  • General knowledge of road construction processes.
  • Demonstrate a safety first attitude. Strict adherence to safety requirements and procedures.
  • Display a professional and courteous attitude to co-workers, supervisors, and the general public
  • Ability to work nights and weekends when necessary
  • Must have reliable transportation, and ability to travel to assigned worksites

Physical Demands:

  • Constant physical effort, including extended sitting for at least 8 hour shift
  • Intermittent walking and standing on a construction site.
  • Climb intermittently
  • Regularly twist, bend, stoop, kneel and crouch to perform duties
  • Regularly reach above shoulder level
  • Regularly push/pull objects
  • Must be physically able to repetitively lift, push, pull and/or carry at least 25 pounds occasionally, and sometimes heavier weight.
  • Agility, balance, and manual dexterity, as well as arm-hand steadiness
  • Able to hear and respond to oral instructions in a noisy environment.
  • Regularly required to use hands and fingers to handle, feel or operate objects, tools or controls, and reach and grasp with hands and arms.
  • Excellent hand, eye and foot coordination.
  • Good vision, depth perception, peripheral vision and the ability to adjust focus

Education / Experience:

  • High School diploma or general education degree (GED)
  • One (1) year experience working as heavy equipment operator
  • One (1) year experience operating a loader
  • Active Driver’s license

Work Environment:

Regularly works in outside weather conditions, including extreme heat and humidity.  Frequently works near moving mechanical parts and is frequently exposed to wet or humid conditions and vibration. Handles various toxic products such as epoxies, grouts, sealers, paints and cleaners, with exposure to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and risks of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Jr. Davis Construction Company, Inc. is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and is actively recruiting women and minorities for all open positions.

Job Tags

Full time, Shift work, Night shift, Weekend work,

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