If you spend your hard-earned money on special training to prepare you for a career in heavy equipment operations, you definitely want to make sure that your training pays off and prepares you for that career. What you want is to ensure you can land a job with your training. There are a few ways Associated Training Services helps you better prepare for your career as a heavy equipment operator.

It all boils down to how we assist our students in several key areas of training:

1. Financial Assistance – If you can’t get your training, then you’ll have a hard time managing a career. That’s why we offer financial assistance. We want all of our students to succeed, and what better way to do that than by ensuring that your heavy equipment operator job training is affordable and easy to pay for? Your financial options include student loans, military, and veterans benefits, and state and federal grants.
2. Housing Assistance – Even if you work out how to pay for your career training, you still need a place to live while you are in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin being trained. If you’re local, you likely have that all worked out. But if you have to travel to our facilities, you need a place to live while you are being trained. That’s why we offer ATS dormitory for you to get discounted rates while you are in school.
3. Employment Assistance – We offer employment assistance on several levels. First, we assign you a personal career counselor to help you with your job search and advise you on important job search skills. We also train you on soft skills like resume preparation and interviewing. And you gain access to our job leads database forever.

We take down the barriers to heavy equipment training. Our employment assistance website will ensure that you are successful-both while you are a student and after you graduate.

A lot of people who want a career in heavy equipment ask if they need to be trained or if on-the-job training (OJT) is available for heavy equipment operators. The short answer is, yes, heavy equipment operations training would be beneficial to your career. The longer answer is a bit more nuanced.

There are still some employers who offer OJT for heavy equipment operators, but not all of them. If your goal is to become a forklift operator, there are plenty of small companies that will train you and certify you on their premises. However, long-term, your career would benefit by attending a training school that is certified and that meets OSHA’s standards for training and certification.

When it comes to large heavy equipment like mobile cranes and backhoes, you are much better off seeking a career training school with a solid reputation.

Even among employers who train on-site, a lot of them use training schools like Associated Training Services to administer the training and certification programs. In that case, you are getting your training through your employer, but it’s not necessarily by your employer. That’s still a recommended path. Large heavy equipment and industrial employers come out ahead by training and certifying many new hires at once rather than paying travel expenses, housing, and training costs for each one.

In short, the best heavy equipment training schools will take individual students and perform on-site training and certification for large employers. Either way, your career is in good hands. Take OJT training from a small employer and you may end up having to boost your career with your own training anyway.

If you search the latest job listings at Associated Training Services’ online job board, you’ll notice that you can find jobs in almost any community across the country. Just enter your zip code, state, and the type of job you’re looking for and see what pops up. Of course, you have to sign up for the job board. Graduated students of ATS’s training classes can join for free.

It doesn’t matter what type of heavy equipment job you are looking for, they’re all over the place. The job board will help you find jobs in all the following classifications:

• Class-A CDL truck driver
• Mobile crane operator
• Forklift operator
• Dump truck driver
• Road Grader
• Backhoe operator
• Rigger/signalperson
• Front-end loader operator

And much more. If the job exists in the heavy equipment or heavy construction sector, then you can find it here. But you’ll need to be trained on the equipment that you want to operate, and that requires enrolling in a heavy equipment operator class that will teach you all the basic skills for operating the equipment and qualify you and certify you for the job.

You are just one leg away from getting your next heavy equipment job–or your first one if you are just starting your career. Why not enroll in a class right now and get your career started?

Don’t let finances get in the way either. If you need financial assistance, we have financial assistance specialists who can help you get the money you need for training. We also offer housing assistance and job search assistance once you graduate. Your success is our success.

It’s the beginning of the year and heavy equipment jobs are starting to come in. This time of year, many cities and municipalities in the northern part of the United States and Canada, start using heavy equipment operators to push snow around. One of the primary functions of these worker bees is to clear snow off of streets so that automobiles and other mechanical traffic can navigate them. It’s an important job that will keep you employed all winter if you are in the right place.

Still, you’ll need to be trained. Here are some of the most recent heavy equipment jobs we know about:

• MADISON, WI hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• NESHKORO, WI hiring heavy equipment operators with Class-A CDL.
• PORTAGE, WI hiring heavy equipment operators.
• LA CROSSE, WI hiring local Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• LOWELL, AR hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• WANO, WI hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• CEDAR RAPIDS, IA hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• YODER, IN hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• JANESVILLE, WI hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• SUN PRAIRIE, WI hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• MANITOWOC, WI hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• CEDAR RAPIDS, IA hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• HOUSTON, TX hiring mobile crane operators.
• GRANITE FALLS, MN hiring certified riggers.
• WARRENVILLE, IL hiring heavy equipment operators.
• CAMP LEJUNE, NC hiring mobile crane operators.
• MUSCATINE, IA hiring mobile crane operators.
• PLATTEVILLE, WI hiring mobile crane operators.

Whether you live in the North or the South, the ATS job board has the best job listings in heavy equipment. It looks like there is a huge demand for Class-A CDL drivers this week.

If you haven’t entered the heavy equipment profession and you are considering a career in the field, you may be wondering where you can find equipment operator jobs. The answer is, everywhere.

There’s no region, city, state, or country where heavy equipment jobs are non-existent. There may be places where certain types of heavy equipment jobs are more prevalent. For instance, you’ll find huge industrial cranes at seaports where huge cargo ships travel in and out and are often seen unloading. Some large cities are hubs for tractor-trailers, and when you see a lot of tractor-trailers along with loading docks, you’ll often find forklifts, as well. Construction sites are known for featuring backhoes and dump trucks.

Heavy Equipment Operator Jobs

But you’ll find these heavy vehicles anywhere in the world. A seaport at Bremen, Germany will have many of the same types of heavy equipment as a seaport in Houston, Texas. A loading dock in Montreal, Canada will have the same basic heavy equipment jobs as a loading dock in San Diego, California.

Heavy equipment jobs are a dime a dozen. The question often is, which types of jobs are more common in which sections of the country? Areas, where logging is a common occupation, will have specific types of equipment associated with logging. Oil tankers are common near seaports where petroleum is imported or exported. If you want one of these jobs, you’ll have to be trained on the equipment that you’ll be operating on a daily basis. A good place to start is with a heavy equipment operator training school.

After you are trained on the equipment you want to work with, you can start looking for the heavy equipment job of your dreams.

There aren’t as many heavy equipment jobs this week as we’ve had listed in weeks past, but they are great jobs to look into. If you are looking for a Class-A CDL truck driving job or a heavy equipment job, then here are a few leads to check out:

• COLDWATER, MI hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• MINNEAPOLIS, MN hiring heavy equipment operators.
• DE PERE, WI hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.

Kick Off The New Year With Heavy Equipment Training

If you want to find the best jobs in heavy equipment, you’ve got to get trained and certified on the equipment. That includes everything from forklifts and skid steers loaders to mobile cranes, even tractor-trailers.

Class-A CDL truck drivers make some of the best money in the industry. That’s because they spend long hours away from home and away from their families. Even if you’re home every night, driving thousands of miles every year, day in and day out, can wear you down. It’s not a cushy job.

As cities, states, and other governments continue to build and re-invest in modern infrastructure, there will always be a huge demand for heavy equipment operators. First, get your training. Then you can find the job you are looking for through our national heavy equipment jobs database.

The term “heavy equipment operator” encompasses a broad range of professionals from the lowly forklift driver to the glamorized long-haul truck driver. More often than not, however, it specifically refers to a person who operates one of several types of heavy equipment that are often found on construction sites and industrial zones within a variety of industries. Without getting into specific niche-oriented types of heavy equipment, the most basic equipment we’re talking about includes:

• Backhoes
• Mobile cranes
• Wheel loaders of various types
• Excavators
• Scrapers
• Graders
• Bulldozers

Again, these are the most basic types of heavy equipment you’ll find on most construction sites and many industrial work sites. A heavy equipment operator is a person trained to operate such equipment and has the proper certification to do so.

How Do You Become a Heavy Equipment Operator

Heavy equipment operators generally receive some type of professional training before they are allowed to operate heavy equipment. Some operators get their training on the job, but this is not the preferred way to get your professional certification. Rather, you are much more employable long term if you get trained and certified by an industry-recognized heavy equipment operator training school.

Many employers will hire instructors to come to their work site and provide such training to several employees at the same time. If your employer is one of those, they can contact Heavy Equipment School to set up the on-site training for you and your co-workers.

For more information on what you will learn in the heavy equipment operator training, you receive from ATS, visit our curriculum page.

The types of companies that hire heavy equipment operators are not short. All sorts of companies employ crane operators, forklift drivers, dump truck drivers, riggers and signalpersons, and people who operate every type of heavy equipment under the sun. Here’s a short list of the types of companies you might be employed by as a heavy equipment operator:

• Construction companies
• Utility companies
• City/municipal governments
• State agencies
• Federal state departments
• Oil & gas companies
• Timber companies
• Mining operations
• Military
• Other industrial employers

As you can see, that’s a broad swath of companies. In each of those categories, you may be employed by a variety of types of businesses. For instance, mining companies may include coal, diamond, or precious metals. Municipal governments could include cities, counties, townships, or boroughs. Even the military is versatile and often hires civilian contractors for some types of jobs.

Specific Employers Who Have Hired ATS Graduates

These employers will hire heavy equipment operators right out of training or with years of experience. They may also hire management personnel. You do not necessarily have to rise through the ranks. If you have the experience, you have the experience.

Employers who have hired heavy equipment operators who graduated from Associated Training Services classes include:

• Halliburton
• Waste Management
• Oak Park
• Quikrete
• Cranemasters
• Shaw
• Flippo Construction
• Merit Asphalt
• Senn Blacktop
• Waas Boring & Cable Inc.
• Intercon Construction LLC
• Buell’s Landscape Center
• Michels Corporation
• Pike Industries
• Tradesmen International
• Minnesota Department of Transportation
• Tube City IMS

And that’s just a small number of employers who have hired our graduates, who train on the best heavy equipment in the industry. You’ll learn how to operate brand-name equipment, such as Case, LIFTek, Badger, JohnnyBall, JCB, Dica, and more.

Our instructors are the best in the business, and all graduates gain access to our free job placement website with access to jobs all across the U.S. and Canada.

Our next heavy equipment class begins on December 7, 2015. Enroll to get in today.

Heavy equipment training is one of the bedrock of modern society. If it weren’t for construction workers, truck drivers, and other heavy equipment operators, much of our cultural infrastructure would never have seen the light of day. Roads and bridges, skyscrapers, single-family homes, apartment complexes, shopping malls, universities, hospitals, and all the other structures that make up modern society were constructed by people operating the types of the heavy equipment you’ll learn about when you enroll in an Associated Training Services heavy equipment operating training class.

Of course, we don’t see that changing any time soon. People will still need banks, grocery stores, and amusement parks well into the future. The processes of construction might change, and perhaps the type of equipment at some level may change, but someone will still need to operate that equipment. For now, it’s not robots.

That means, since construction equipment is still in use, heavy equipment jobs are still available. And as long as heavy equipment jobs are available, there will be someone ready and willing to train new recruits to use the equipment. It might as well be us doing the training and you get the jobs.

When it comes to training heavy equipment operators, no one does it better. We’ve been at it for more than 50 years.

There’s no time better than now to enroll in a heavy equipment course. Pick one and join the workforce.

If you are looking for a job in heavy equipment, or you think you might want to be a heavy equipment operator, now is the best time to start your training. Not only might you be eligible for financial or housing assistance, but you’ll gain immediate access to our jobs database and be in the know on the best heavy equipment jobs all across the country.

Whether your desire is to operate a mobile crane or a dump truck, whether your goal is to become a rigger or a foreman on a construction site, and even if you just want to move dirt around with a backhoe, getting a job is the most important part of your career. Without one, there is no career. And that’s why the instructors and staff at Associated Training Services are as concerned about making sure you are gainfully employed as you are. We want you to get a job.

Beyond the jobs listing board, we also will train you in the soft skills you need to apply for and land the heavy equipment job of your dreams. That includes:

• Resume assistance
• Networking skills
• Interviewing

And we’ll support you as you learn and practice these skills in a safe environment. Every student receives an employment counselor, someone who will coach you, encourage you, and motivate you to find the job that you deserve upon graduation.

Why wait? Join the next heavy equipment training class today and gain access to our jobs database.