The skills you learn as a Construction Equipment Operator will help prepare you for a civilian career with building contractors, state highway agencies, rock quarries, well drillers or construction firms. As an advanced level Construction Equipment Operator, you may be involved in:Įxcavate hills and slopes with crawler tractor

Identification and placement of grade stakesĪdvanced level Construction Equipment Operators provides guidance, supervises and trains other Soldiers within the same discipline. Operation of specific rough terrain equipment Operation of different types of construction equipment Part of this time is spent in the classroom and part in the field. Job training for a Construction Equipment Operator requires nine weeks of Basic Training, where you’ll learn basic Soldiering skills, and eight weeks of Advanced Individual Training and on-the-job instruction. Lift and move steel and other heavy building materials using winches, cranes, and hoistsĭig holes and trenches using power shovels Transport heavy construction equipment with tractor-trailerĪssist in performance of combat engineer missions Interpret information on grade stakes, placing or replacing grade stakesĭrive bulldozers, road graders, and other heavy equipment to cut and level earth for runways andĬlear, grub, strip, excavate, backfill, stockpile and push scraper with tractor crawlerĬut and spread fill material with scraper Some of your duties as a Construction Equipment Operator may include: Construction equipment operators use bulldozers, cranes, graders and other heavy equipment to complete these kinds of projects.Ĭonstruction Equipment Operators are responsible for operating crawler and wheeled tractors with dozer attachments, scoop loader, backhoe loaders, hydraulic excavators, motorized grader and towed or self-propelled scraper. Airfields, roads, dams and buildings can’t be created without moving tons of earth and building materials or producing concrete and asphalt.

The Army is always completing hundreds of construction projects and Heavy Construction Equipment Operators are integral to that process.

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