| Top Tasks (Specific duties and responsibilities of this job.) |
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| Learn and follow safety regulations. |
| Take actions to avoid potential hazards or obstructions, such as utility lines, other equipment, other workers, or falling objects. |
| Adjust handwheels and depress pedals to control attachments, such as blades, buckets, scrapers, or swing booms. |
| Start engines, move throttles, switches, or levers, or depress pedals to operate machines, such as bulldozers, trench excavators, road graders, or backhoes. |
| Locate underground services, such as pipes or wires, prior to beginning work. |
| Monitor operations to ensure that health and safety standards are met. |
| Align machines, cutterheads, or depth gauge makers with reference stakes and guidelines or ground or position equipment, following hand signals of other workers. |
| Load and move dirt, rocks, equipment, or other materials, using trucks, crawler tractors, power cranes, shovels, graders, or related equipment. |
| Drive and maneuver equipment equipped with blades in successive passes over working areas to remove topsoil, vegetation, or rocks or to distribute and level earth or terrain. |
| Coordinate machine actions with other activities, positioning or moving loads in response to hand or audio signals from crew members. |
| Top Skills used in this Job |
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| Operation and Control - Controlling operations of equipment or systems. |
| Operation Monitoring - Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly. |
| Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. |
| Monitoring - Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. |
| Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively. |
| Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. |
| Coordination - Adjusting actions in relation to others` actions. |
| Time Management - Managing one`s own time and the time of others. |
| Complex Problem Solving - Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. |
| Equipment Maintenance - Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed. |
