Directional Drill Operator

Underground Operator (Directional Drill Operator)

Job Summary

• Operators are able to operate the equipment that is used for utility installation including horizontal direction drills (HDD), excavators, hydrovac trucks/trailers, trenchers, plows, and other utility construction equipment.

General Accountabilities

• Operates a directional drills, excavators, trenchers, plows and other similar heavy machine equipment.
• Performs basic maintenance and minor repairs on equipment.
• Maintain all equipment both before and after a job.
• Check and replace all fluids in equipment.
• Able to operate all tools related to the utility industry including hand and power tools of all types.
• Assure that all tools and equipment are accounted for and returned to truck at the end of each day.
• Recognize and identify utility locates and meaning.
• Locates underground services before performing work.
• Must be able to read and understand construction prints.
• Know how to properly set up traffic control-set up all road safety signs, cones and barrels before the job starts and assure all are accounted for at the end of every day.
• Clean and prepare construction sites to eliminate possible hazards.
• Monitors operations to ensure all health and safety standards are met.
• Aligns machines with reference to stakes, markers or guidelines and/or hand signals of other workers.
• Loads, unloads, and identifies building materials, machinery, and tools.
• Knows how to properly use shoring braces and other temporary structures.
• Signal other equipment operators to facilitate alignment, movement, and adjustment of machinery, equipment, and materials.
• Dig ditches or trenches, backfill excavations, and compact and level earth to grade specifications, using picks, shovels, pneumatic tampers, and rakes.
• Measures, marks, and records openings and distances to lay out areas where construction work will be performed.
• Always have something to do (i.e., grease equipment, clean trucks/trailer/tools, etc) when “down time” is necessary.
• Trains other employees in proper techniques, quality specs, and all work related items as needed.
• Assist Foreman in any Daily/Job paperwork as necessary.
• Attend all training sessions required by management.
• Clean up all jobsites at the end of each day to assure that all trash is removed and the jobsite looks better than before we started the job.
• • The company reserves the right to add or change duties at any time.

Job Qualifications

• Education: High school diploma or equivalent
• Experience: At least one year of related experience
• Licenses/Certifications: Class A CDL (preferred); OSHA 10; For-Hire Endorsement (required); DOT physical (required)
• Must meet all Laborer Requirements

Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Safe Problem Solving Skills
• Stays On Task
• Able To Read Construction Prints
• Critical thinking