Location: Fort Stewart, GA
Required Clearance: N/A
Job Purpose:
Check Defense is a fast-growing federal contractor seeking a qualified and experienced professional Heavy Equipment Operator. The Heavy Equipment Operator provides support services for the Directorate of Plans, Training, Mobilization, and Security (DPTMS) Range Control at Ft. Stewart, GA. DPTMS supports the management and maintenance of training land and ranges by integrating mission requirements with and sound land management practices.
Duties and responsibilities:
- Knowledge of heavy equipment and the associated safety precautions.
- Knowledge of the hazards and applicable safety rules and precautions in the operation of heavy motorized equipment.
- Operate heavy and light equipment.
- Repair, maintain, and reconstruct the training area lands at Stewart, GA.
- Transverse access trails to training areas.
- Operate various diesel-powered motor vehicles, both wheeled and tracked, such as but not limited to graders, excavators, and bulldozers.
- Operate ground clearance machinery such as vegetation mulchers, agricultural tractors, tub grinders, pickup trucks, and four wheel-drive vehicles.
- Operate various towed and power-takeoff equipment: hydro-seeders, drill seeders, fertilizer spreaders, and pesticide sprayers.
- Operate various types of hand operated light equipment: chainsaws, brush saws, pruning saws, stump grinders.
- Safely operate articulating dump trucks, utility trucks, and trailers when needed.
Required Qualifications:
- United States citizen.
- High School Diploma or GED.
- Valid US issued Driver’s License.
- Ability to pass a National Agency Check with Inquiries (NACI) background investigation.
- Minimum three (3) years demonstrated relevant experience operating heavy equipment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- CDL-A endorsement
Working condition:
- Outdoors in various weather conditions
- Long workdays.
- Noise between 140db to 165db.
Physical Requirements:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Do repetitive tasks.
- Requires frequently standing, walking, sitting, and driving a motor vehicle.
- Required to climb or balance, stoop under or squat, kneeling, crouching, and able to move quickly and safely across all types of terrain.
- Able to reach with your hands and arms, talk, and hear.
- Lifting: frequently lift and move up to 70lbs.
- Vision: required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.