Looking for heavy equipment operator with CDL. Looking for excavator operator with CDL. Looking for bulldozer operator with CDL. Do these types of heavy equipment job ads frustrate you? There are thousands of heavy equipment operators who have a wide range of experiences to bring to employers, yet they lack that one important qualification – a CDL.

Employers are becoming more cost conscious these days and one of the biggest costs associated with any business is that of labor. If a business can employ workers who are multi-skilled, they can get by with fewer employee numbers, and that means lower costs. Lower costs also open the door for more tenders, and that means job security for those who are employed.

If you are a heavy equipment operator with several years experience, then you will find that you are in high demand – if you have a commercial drivers license. Employers can send you out on a job – you take your equipment out to the job site, do the job, then return, or move onto the next job site. For the employer, that’s one person doing the job of two.

Adding a CDL is a cost effective way to improve your job opportunities. It also adds a little variety to your working life. You can learn to drive a heavy equipment transport truck in as little as three weeks. This will give you the skills and knowledge required to pass your commercial drivers license tests, and to be issued with a CDL. This is effectively a license for life, the only ongoing requirement is to follow the road rules (and not have your license suspended), and to remain reasonably healthy – you will need to undergo regular health check.

Instead of becoming frustrated by those job ads, add a CDL to your skills set – you’ll no longer find those job ads frustrating.

This weeks jobs highlight the growing demand for heavy equipment operators with commercial drivers licenses. Employers are finding it is more cost effective to employ one person who is able to transport their equipment to and from a jobsite as well as operate the equipment onsite. If you are a heavy equipment operator who doesn’t have a commercial drivers license, you should perhaps consider adding one.

Training can be completed in as little as three weeks and you will improve your future employment options. If you need more information on heavy equipment training and/or truck driver training then visit our training website.This weeks jobs include:

Excavator Operator with CDL
Waldo, WI
Employer requires an excavator operator who has a CDL-A and willing to move equipment to jobsites.

Equipment Operator/CDL Driver
Milwaukee, WI
Looking for an Equipment Operator/CDL Driver. This is full time and NOT just seasonal employment! For landscape construction and maintenance for residential and commercial clients.

Heavy Equipment Operator
Huron, SD
2 job openings, Full Time, Education Required, Drivers License, Salary: $15.00 Per Hour

Crane Operator
Experience operating a 50-ton rough terrain hydraulic crane

Mobile Crane Operator
Darien, WI
Employer requires a 60-ton Mobile Crane operator.

Be sure to visit our job site if you need more information on any of these positions. . If you’re looking to build a career as a heavy equipment operator, then check out our training options on our heavy equipment training website.

Heavy equipment operators often lead dual lives. One day they are out on a block of land, all on their lonesome clearing the way for other activities. The next day, they are part of a team, working side by side with other machinery. This is the life of most heavy equipment operators. Excavators could be digging a trench for pipes one day then working loaders and bulldozers to demolish a building.

The following video demonstrates how a bulldozer and scraper work together. In the video, you’ll see the scrapers carving through dirt and taking it away. As soon as they pass, the bulldozer will move in to push down the sides of where the scraper has just been. The scraper will then collect that on its next pass. Often, you’ll have a team working together – this video also show this. Check out the double scrapers – this is effectively two scrapers joined nose to tail to act as one.

Being able to work both as part of a team and alone is an important part of the heavy equipment operator’s repertoire. When working in a team, an operator needs to know when it’s safe to move and do its job, and when it’s time to move out of the way to allow another piece of equipment to do its job.

Whilst we can train operators on how to use their heavy equipment, it takes experience to know exactly when to play your role as part of a team. Your initial heavy equipment training should include safety components that will prepare you for these roles. As an operator, working in a team is one of the most interesting parts of the job – it’s certainly never boring.

Are you always late? If so, you may not make it as a truck driver in today’s busy world. Time is one of the key factors to a successful truck driving career. If you consistently arrive safely on time without having run foul of the law, then you’ll develop a reputation for reliability. If you’re always late, no one is going to want to employ you.

Whether your driving a local dump truck or driving an interstate rig, truck drivers have schedules that must be met. Their schedules often dictate how other areas of a business operate. A good example is a dump truck driver delivering gravel to a road site. If the dump truck is late, work almost grinds to a halt as they wait for that gravel to work on the next section. Manufacturing often works on a just-in-time delivery system. Products are delivered and go straight into the manufacturing process. A good example is fresh produce that is processed into final products.

Truck drivers are one of the key components to a wide range of industries. In fact, some would argue that truck drivers are a key component to our society’s success. Fresh milk in your supermarket relies on several trucks – from dairy farmer to processing plant to supermarket, and to be fresh each movement needs to be done in a timely fashion.

Reliability is a trait that truck drivers can develop, however, they do need to develop that trait quite quickly. Learning how to navigate from A to B, how to follow GPS guidance, and how to avoid traffic snarls is all part and parcel of a truck driver’s job. We can train you to become a very good truck driver. It’s experience and the advice of fellow drivers that will teach you reliability.

There’s more to becoming a mobile crane operator than just learning to pull levers. Mobile cranes, whilst not overly complex, do rely on a crane operator’s ability to assess the job before starting. That assessment includes the terrain, the load, and the environment. The latter is particularly important as it includes factors such as wind direction and strength, and any obstacles such as overhead utility lines.

When it comes to the load, size really does matter. Mobile cranes range in size from baby 5 ton vehicles up to quite large 120+ ton vehicles. The size represents the maximum weight a crane can handle, however, this is one of the areas where a crane operator’s skill and knowledge is important. A 60-ton crane, for example, can lift up to 60 tons – under perfect conditions. Add wind, particularly gusting wind, and/or an uneven terrain, and that vehicle’s safe maximum lifting capacity could be reduced by 50% or more.

This is why new crane operators require good quality training, and why all crane operators must be certified before being permitted to operate a crane. Crane operator training will provide the necessary skills and knowledge to work safely as a crane operator. Certification tests an operator’s skill and knowledge only allowing competent operators through to the workplace.

ATS Heavy Equipment Training Schools deliver high quality training to students looking for a career as a crane operator. Training is provided by NCCER qualified trainers and includes training for fixed cab and swing cab mobile hydraulic cranes, lattice boom cranes, and articulated boom (knuckleboom) cranes. On completion of a students training, we are accredited by NCCCO as a test site for both the NCCCO written and NCCCO practical exams. This means you can receive your training and your certification through the one training organization.

Heavy equipment careers are both interesting and rewarding. Heavy equipment operators are well paid, especially those who have had several years experience and who can operate a range of equipment. Throw in a commercial drivers license and you’re invaluable to an employer. Whilst much of the country is still trying to recover from the financial problems of the last five years, demand for heavy equipment operators continues to grow. This week’s job vacancies include:

Crane Operator
Experience operating a 50-ton rough terrain hydraulic crane

Mobile Crane Operator
Darien, WI
Employer requires a 60-ton Mobile Crane operator.

Heavy Equipment Operator
Huron, SD
2 job openings, Full Time, Education Required, Drivers License, Salary: $15.00 Per Hour

Equipment Operator/CDL Driver
Milwaukee, WI
Looking for an Equipment Operator/CDL Driver. This is full time and NOT just seasonal employment! For landscape construction and maintenance for residential and commercial clients.

Operators
Perham , MN.
Employer is looking for operators for Fiber Optic Cable, Gas line, and conduit installation.

You can find information on these and any new vacancies on our dedicated job site. If you’re looking to build a career as a heavy equipment operator, then check out our training options on our heavy equipment training website.

Bulldozers are the real brutes of heavy equipment. The amount of power contained in even the smallest bulldozer is amazing. They can push tons of earth around very quickly; for example, they can totally clear a home building lot in half a day – trees and all. Bulldozers gain their power through a combination of a tough engine and a set of tracks instead of wheels. The blade at the front is designed to both cut into the earth and push it to one side.

Most people think of bulldozers in that light. They push dirt around. While that is their primary role, I wouldn’t want to be standing behind one when fully rigged. You see, bulldozers have attachments that can be added to the rear. These are mean looking attachments too, and come with the apt of name of ‘ripper’ attachments. Traditionally, these attachments are either a single claw, or a triple claw.

The single claw, as the name suggests, is a claw-like attachment that is used to break up the ground. You can think of a ripper as a larger and much tougher farmers plow, pulled by a machine that is far stronger than a farmer’s tractor. Rippers can make short work of hard clay soils, areas where tree roots are still present in the ground, and rocky terrain. The bigger the dozer, the bigger the ripper, and so the bigger the rocks and tree roots it can handle. Rippers are also handy for breaking cement blocks as part of a demolition job.

There is far more to a bulldozer than just pushing dirt around. Some bulldozers have specialized blades attached to the front that can ‘grade’ an area in pretty much the same fashion as a dedicated grader. Bulldozers are often called upon to deal with snow clearing in winter, fire breaks (and fire fighting) during the fire season, and demolition work. The life of bulldozer operator is far from boring, so if you’re interested in a career operating a bulldozer, check out your training opportunities through our heavy equipment training site. A rewarding and interesting career as a bulldozer operator awaits you.

Heavy equipment safety is vitally important to the smooth running of any work site. Let’s face it, heavy equipment machinery are generally large rather cumbersome vehicles that are capable of doing a lot of damage when something goes wrong, or in the wrong hands. Workplace safety has a number of areas that operators need to be aware of. There are the work practices, in other words, how you use your heavy equipment. There are maintenance issues such as ensuring that each unit of heavy equipment is inspected and serviced according to a schedule.

The most important person when it comes to heavy equipment safety is the operator. Whilst safe operations are obvious, there are tasks that need to be completed, before an operator starts the engine. External walk around inspections are important. An operator can visually inspect all working components (including tires and tracks) for wear and tear and developing problems. A heavy equipment operator also needs to complete a quick safety check from inside their cab. The following video from Caterpillar demonstrates an internal safety check.

An internal safety check like the one demonstrated only takes sixty seconds. Failing to do so can lead to serious problems, including serious injury and death to both the operator and those working around them. Our society now demands that workers observe OSHA practices whilst in the workplace. Legislators have listened and have made safety training a compulsory component of most training programs, no matter what type of workplace.

When it comes to heavy equipment, safety training, is not just a requirement, it’s a set of skills that are designed to protect operators from serious injury. Ironically, once trained, most operators go through the sixty second internal safety check almost on auto pilot – it becomes second nature to them – and so it should.

Are you well versed in a range of heavy equipment? If you are a professional heavy equipment operator then you do need to have more than one piece of equipment in your skills set. We are frequently getting job vacancies from employers, which have as a major requirement the ability to operate a range of heavy equipment. We are also getting vacancies that ask for heavy equipment operators who have a current commercial drivers license.

From a business owner’s perspective, it makes sense to employ individuals who can be utilized where the need is greatest. If a project is running behind schedule, they can move employees to that project to help move things along. If they don’t have multi-skilled operators, then their options are limited, short of engaging short term contractors at a higher cost.

As an operator, you are gaining two benefits from multi-skilling. You are opening up more employment opportunities as your skills set will appeal to that wider group of employers. From a workplace perspective, you are also giving yourself variety – your not stuck operating the one piece of equipment day-after-day. Employers also respect that philosophy – variety does help to keep employees on-the-ball.

For new operators, our suggestion is very simple – when undertaking your initial training, find a heavy equipment training organization that will train you on a variety of machinery. Once you enter the work place, look for an employer who will give you ongoing experience on that machinery. For existing operators, we suggest you review your current skills set, and if necessary, consider adding to new skills, especially a commercial drivers license. You’ll reap the benefits long term, and so will your future employers.

Multi skilled heavy equipment operators and crane operators are again a feature of the job vacancies this week. It’s becoming a trend so for operators who have been a little one dimensional in the past, now could be a good time to increase your skills base. Learning truck driving skills and acquiring a CDL is almost always a good move in this industry as is learning heavy equipment closely associated to those you now use. If you do need to boost your skills mixed, check out your heavy equipment training options (and truck driver or crane operator) at ATS Heavy Equipment Training Schools.

Distribution Operator
Gunnison, CO
Installs, maintains and repairs natural gas lines, meters and regulators. Turns natural gas lines on and off, as necessary. Responds to customer requests for service including connections, disconnections and leak investigations. Operates and maintains heavy and/or specialized equipment and tools in order to dig and backfill ditches, load and unload pipe, meter fittings and other materials. Reads meters and records consumption for billing.

Heavy Equipment Operators with a (CDL) Commercial Drivers
Pennsylvania
Client is currently looking for Heavy Equipment Operators with a (CDL) Commercial Drivers License! We will train qualified candidates in oil well cementing and acidizing services. We have several openings across the United States.

Equipment Operator and Driver
Rifle, CO
Performs more than one of the following units: Vacuum Truck, Hydrovac, Water Truck, Pressure Truck, Steamer, Hot Oiler, Sour Seal Unit or Chemical Cleaning Unit.

Heavy Equipment Operator
Paris, KY
Searching for equipment operators who have a minimum of 8 years experience in operating a D6 or larger Dozer and or a PC300 or larger excavator. GPS experience a plus. Applicants must have a safe work record and able to pass a physical with drug tests.

Heavy Equipment Operator
Moorhead, MN
Position Summary:
Performs overhead and underground line construction duties, as directed by the Field Superintendent. All operators are required to help out when and where necessary – with operation of other equipment and/or manual labor.

Heavy Equipment Operators
Tyler, TX
Client is hiring Heavy Equipment operators for new openings

Crane and Boom Truck Operators
Deforest, WI
Client is hiring crane and boom truck operators.

You can find more information on these and many other jobs through our dedicated job site.