This week’s job listings continue the trend for heavy equipment operators who are multi-skilled. Being skilled in operating a range of heavy equipment is standard in today’s workplace. However, employers are also looking for heavy equipment operators who have a commercial drivers license, and/or who can work at general laboring jobs around a constructions site. Here are a few of this week’s job listings.

Multi-Skilled Equipment Operator – Alaska
The Multi-Skilled Operator is responsible for operating light and heavy equipment and demonstrates a broad-based knowledge and experience with construction and maintenance facilities and equipment.

Heavy Equipment Operator – GA
CCCO Certified Heavy Equipment Operator for GA Power project. Functions: Major responsibilities and target accomplishments expected of the position including the typical problems encountered in carrying out the responsibilities, which include service, install, repair and inspect machinery, and heavy equipment in Refinery to keep them in good working order.

Heavy Equipment Operator – TX
Offers challenging assignments on some of the world’s largest and most complex projects.

Lattice Crane Operators – Radford, IA
Crane operators required to operate lattice cranes

Dozer Operators – Lufkin, TX
Experienced bulldozer operators required

Paving Equipment Operator – Miami, FL
Operators of construction equipment for local Paving Company to include grader, dozer, paver with ability to lead a small paving crew.

If you’re looking for a career that is constantly in demand, then consider heavy equipment. The work pays well, is challenging and very diverse and it only takes three weeks of heavy equipment training to become work ready. When it comes to employment opportunities, you only have to visit our job site to see there is always work available.

So there’s no future in heavy equipment operations. Tell that to our employers who have listed these jobs with us this week. There doesn’t appear to be a shortage of jobs, just a shortage of operators. If you’re looking for work as a heavy equipment operator, then check out the following.

Heavy Equipment Operator / Construction Helper – Burlington, VT

Experienced heavy equipment operator needed.
Operator needs to have experience operating an excavator.
Experienced construction helper needed for same commercial project – must be an all around helper.

Construction Operator – Natchitoches, LA
#### Entry Level Position ####

This is an entry level position responsible for basic construction and maintenance activities of a natural gas utility system.
They may operate heavy and/or specialized equipment.
Minimum requirements include a high school diploma or equivalent,
Valid driver’s license,
The ability to work in an outdoor environment and lifting up to 60 lbs.

Equipment Operator-Transportation – Midland, TX

Performs manual and unskilled labor of more than ordinary difficulty, which often involves the use of acquired skills.
Will operates several types of light and heavy equipment.
Does related work and training as required.
Operates motorized equipment used in the construction and maintenance of streets and alleys.
Assists in loading and unloading transported equipment.

Equipment Operator / Sr. Equipment Operator – Waynesburg, PA

Operates various types of equipment and tools used in pipeline and facilities construction.
Performs repairs and maintenance of equipment as required.
Loads and unloads material and equipment from trucks as required.
Perform pipeline operator responsibilities as required.
Required to participate in on-call rotation.
Ability and willingness to travel.
Willingness to work in all weather conditions.
CDL license recommended

Equipment Operator – Battle Mountain, NV

Semi-skilled employees who operate at least one piece of heavy equipment such as loaders, scrapers, excavators and rubber-tired dozers.
Employees who can work under minimal supervision in environments where the primary objective is safe production.

Heavy Equipment Operator – Saint Augustine, FL

Providing environmental services including waste collection, recycling and disposal of waste from homes and businesses.

Heavy Equipment Operator – Mexia, TX

Operates heavy equipment at a transfer station, recyclery and/or landfill for the purpose of transferring, spreading, covering, loading and/or compacting waste or soil in a productive and safe manner.

Heavy Equipment Operator – Polkton, NC

Solid waste collection, transfer, disposal and recycling to approximately 2 million commercial, industrial and residential customers in 30 states.

Heavy Equipment Operator II – Joseph City, AZ

Heavy Equipment Operators are responsible for the safe operation of various heavy equipment vehicles that perform the spreading and compaction of construction and demolition, commercial and residential waste disposed of at the post collection facilities.
Occasionally, items up to 50 lb. must be lifted while performing the daily routine in all weather conditions.
Daily Equipment Inspections (DEI) are required.

Operators – Huntsville, AL

Employer is hiring Trackhoe, Dozer, Track Loader, Pan operators and CDL drivers

Operator – Dallas, TX

front loader operator required

If you are looking for a new career, then heavy equipment is one are where employers are always looking for skilled and well trained operators. The shortage is such that they even advertise positions that suited to entry level (new) operators. It only takes three weeks of heavy equipment operator training to gain those entry level skills. Once you have completed your training, you can view these and many other vacancies on our Job Site.

Have you been looking for employment opportunities in the fields of crane operations, truck driving, or heavy equipment operations? If so, you’ve come to the right place. Each week we feature some of the best jobs that have been listed by employees on our job site, and there have certainly been plenty of them. Jobs that have been listed over the last couple of weeks include:

Highway Equipment Operator – Clinton, KY
Equipment Operator II – Tampa, FL
Finish Grader Operator – Polk County – Bartow, FL
Heavy Equipment Operator II – Walker, LA
Heavy Equipment Operator – Rhinebeck, NY
Heavy Equipment Operator/Yard Associate – Benton Harbor, MI
Heavy Equipment Operator – Laney, M.T.
Heavy Equipment Operator – Milpitas, CA
Operator – South Charleston, WV
Motor Vehicle Operator – Gatlinburg, TN
Equipment Operator/Truck Driver – Leesburg, VA
Heavy Equipment Operator – Dallas, TX
Equipment Operator – Portsmouth, VA
Heavy Equipment Operator – Sulphur, KY
Backhoe operators with CDL-A – Bryan, TX
Crane Operator – Baltimore, MD
Spray Rig operators with CDL-A and hazmat – Campbell, NE

If you have been considering a career change, don’t let anyone tell you there are no jobs in heavy equipment operations. As you can see from that list, there are plenty of jobs for heavy equipment operators spread all around the nation. Your first step is to seek out heavy equipment training, and who better to ask than those that specialize in both training and helping graduates find work?

We’ve got quite a few heavy equipment job listings for you this week. We hope you’ll find something you can dig your teeth into.

• A reputable foliage company is looking for drivers. A presentation will be held at ATS in Sun Prairie, WI. For more details, call 800-383-7364.
• A presentation will also be given in Sun Prairie, WI for job offers by a national transportation company. Call 800-383-7364 for details.
• Dump truck drivers needed in Hartford, WI.
• Employers are looking for local drivers in Kansas.
• A company in Hammond, IN are hiring heavy equipment and crane operators.
• Want to learn manual and computerized grading. If you live in Wisconsin Rapids, WI, you now have a great heavy equipment opportunity.
• A company in Waukesha, WI is looking for heavy equipment operators.
• If you are a boom truck operator with a CDL-A license, you have an opportunity to deliver and set trusses in Mill Hall, PA. You can be home every day.
• If you are an excavator operator who knows how to operate drill attachments or want to learn, you can apply in Dallas, TX.
• A dairy farm in Kewaskum, WI is looking for CDL-A drivers to make deliveries in Southeastern Wisconsin.
• Contact ATS for a driving opportunity in Sun Prairie, WI. Call 800-383-7364.
• Another CDL opportunity is available through ATS in Sun Prairie, WI. Call 800-383-7364.
• A petroleum services company in Williston, ND is seeking CDL-A drivers to deliver equipment to oil fields. Hourly pay with lots of work.
• A railroad services company is hiring book truck operators in Madison, WI.
• There are also overseas opportunities in Australia, UAE, Saudi Arabia, UK, Russia, China, New Zealand, and Scotland. These include a broad range of opportunities.
• A national home improvement chain is seeking delivery drivers in three locations: Delavan, WI; Franklin, WI; and Browndeer, WI. Be home every night with benefits.

Find more heavy equipment and truck driving jobs through ATS Heavy Equipment Operator Schools.

Short week this week for job listings, but that doesn’t mean the jobs we do have – or the job (singular) – isn’t important. Every job is important in the heavy equipment business.

This week, we’ve got a job from a respectable employer. It’s a trucking company with a national reputation and they offer great pay with benefits. Over the road.

If you like adventure, being away from home, seeing the country, and getting paid well for your efforts, then look up the ATS Heavy Equipment School and check out our heavy equipment job listings. We have a list of the best heavy equipment and truck driving jobs from the best employers in the industry.

Associated Training Services is beginning a new column this week that we hope will become one of your favorites. We’ll be highlighting job listings within the heavy equipment industry. There are a lot of them and we expect the list to grow.

This week’s job listings include:

• A transportation company with multiple offices nationwide is looking for alert drivers for local and long haul deliveries.
• A contractor in Huntsville, Alabama is looking for bulldozer, pan scraper, construction tractor, and asphalt distributor operators.
• A company in Livermore, California needs crane operators locally and excavating equipment operators all over the state.
• In Johnson City, Texas, a construction trenching firm is seeking oilfield workers to help with trenching for pipelines. Starting pay is $15-$20 and you get per diem.
• Relay driver needed from Madison, Wisconsin to Fremont, Indiana and back, six nights a week for $21.11 per hour.
• Deliver roofing supplies in Columbus, Canton, and Mentor, Ohio for a recognized supply company.

This is just the tip of iceberg where heavy equipment job listings are concerned. Look for this list every Saturday. Brought to you by the premier heavy equipment job site online, a service of ATS Heavy Equipment Operator School.

If you take a lot of pride in your work then a career as a grader operator could be ideal. Of course, you need to like working outdoors and working as part of team. As you drive around your neighborhood, along city streets, and out on the highway, take note at how well the roads have been made. You can lay a lot of the credit right into the lap of the grader operators who worked to precise measurements.

Grader operators are responsible for providing a smooth base that has been carved to the right slope prior to finish being applied. It takes a lot of skill to work to such fine measurements, yet many operators learn these skills in quite a short period of time. You can credit this to the type of training received in the first place. Quality training is one of the keys to most occupations and grader operators are no different.

ATS Heavy Equipment Training Schools have been at the forefront of heavy equipment training for over thirty years. We know what skills and attributes employers are looking for when it comes to new recruits and, over time, have developed a reputation for delivering. For those looking to enter the field of heavy equipment, proper training has to be the first consideration.

Is there a demand for operators? There is and, generally speaking, there always will be. While ever we build roads, undertake new housing developments, and undertake large constructions projects, heavy equipment operators including grader operators will be in demand. It is predicted that our aging population will result in a fairly sudden drop in the number of workers available to fill these roles. If you’re interested in a career as a heavy equipment operator, now could be the best time to undertake training – this will see you trained and experienced, ready to fill the coming void.

Heavy equipment careers are booming with government statistics suggesting that demand for operators will continue through to 2016. Back in 2006 (latest reliable statistics), there were 494,000 heavy equipment operators spread across the nation. The predicted trend was that this number would grow by about 8% by 2016 – that is around 40,000 new positions or around 4,000 new jobs each year. That doesn’t tell the whole story, however.

It is predicted that around 14% of operators (2006 statistics) will leave the job in that same period, many through retirement as the baby boomers era starts to decline. That represents around 70,000 operators leaving the industry – or 7,000 per year. The net total is a requirement of 12,000 new trained workers each year until 2016.

You know what they say about statistics and I agree to an extent. You will not see 12,000 new jobs each year. In fact the projection had been for a steady annual increase in the number of new recruits required. 2010 is when the baby boomers are expected to drop off the employment charts in bigger numbers. This has been offset somewhat this year by the strong demand for new recruits to service the construction programs associated with the economic recovery initiatives.

If you take all that and put it together – the bottom line is that demand for heavy equipment operators is NOT expected to drop at all. This means that anyone entering a heavy equipment career can expect stability of employment until at least 2016. That’s good news for everyone involved in the industry. However, what about today – right now – what is the demand?

A quick search on Google produced many lists of job vacancies. Indeed.com represented the average with almost 3,000 opportunities listed for heavy equipment operators. I suggest, if you are looking at a heavy equipment career, you get started. There has never been a better time like the present – take advantage of it while you can. ATS Heavy Equipment Operator Schools can quickly get you started in a rewarding career as a heavy equipment operator.