Engineering Equipment Operator - Hot Springs, United States - Department Of The Interior

Description

Summary

Career-Seasonal appointments are permanent positions and include the same benefits as Career appointments, but do not provide work on a year-round basis. You will work from approximately late September to mid September, and you will be in a non-pay status for the remainder of the year.

All applications submitted by 11:59 (EST) on the closing day will receive consideration.

Duties

• Operates gasoline or diesel-powered engineering and construction equipment with wheeled or crawler type traction, such as road graders, tractors with bulldozer or angle dozer blades, front-end loaders, backhoes, wheel loader, trench diggers, and large industrial tractors with pan or scraper attachments.
• Some of these vehicles may be equipped with auxiliary attachments (snowplow blade, rotary snow blower, mower and sweeper or sanding units).
• Operates equipment to push, pull, pile, excavate, backfill, grade, or level earth and/or refuse.
• Uses equipment to perform such functions as cutting, moving, digging, grading, and rolling earth, sand, stone, and other materials, and to maintain ditches, road shoulders and beds.
• Work is generally done on flat or rolling terrain, in refuse dumps, and construction sites with simple terrain problems.
• Motor Grader is used to grade and ditch, plow or clear debris, generally flat road and ditch surfaces where grading to stake is not required.
• Operates end loader in the process of moving dirt and materials, plowing snow and filling trucks.
• Uses backhoe to dig and backfill ditches.
• Uses boom for placing of pipe, hydrants, and other large objects in utility and road maintenance operations throughout the park.
• Uses dozer to rough in new construction sites, plow snow, rip ice, move stumps, rocks and brush, and stockpile gravel, chips, etc.
• Uses the grader, loader, dozer and dump truck to remove snow from roads and parking lots during winter months.
• Uses equipment to perform land fill maintenance, road side brushing, etc.
• Loads, secures and hauls equipment to and from project sites using truck and trailer.