NHS Human Services, Inc.

**Summary/Objective

The Heavy Equipment Operator / Knuckle Boom Loader Operator operates a variety of contractor equipment and trucks used in construction, maintenance and repair activities and performs a variety of semi-skilled tasks.

**Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Operates trucks of various sizes and weights in the loading, hauling and unloading of various equipment, materials and supplies.
• Operates trucks and construction or power equipment, such as mechanized broom, boom trucks, loaders, dump trucks, skid steers with various attachments, and volumetric mixing trucks.
• May operate jackhammers, brush chippers, and other small equipment and tools.
• Works with and assists the highway crew.
• Performs routine inspection and preventive maintenance on assigned equipmentand refers defects or repairs to the supervisor; cleans equipment.
• Assists in the installing and maintenance of traffic control devices.
• Performs all duties in conformance to appropriate safety and security standards.

Competencies

• Technical Capacity
• Time Management
• Thoroughness

Supervisory Responsibility

• This position has no supervision responsibilities.

Work Environment

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works in outside weather conditions.
• The employee frequently works near moving mechanical parts, and is frequently exposed to wet or humid conditions and vibration.
• The employee is occasionally exposed to airborne particles.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Physical Demands

• 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.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands and fingers to handle, feel or operate objects, tools or controls, and reach with hands and arms.
• The employee is frequently required to stand, talk and hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to walk, sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl.
• The employee must frequently lift or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift or move up to 100 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

• This is a full-time position.
• Standard days and hours of work are primarily Monday through Friday, 40+ hours a week, with some weekend work required.

Travel

• Travel to various worksites is required for lengthy periods of time.

Required Education and Experience

• Four years' experience involving the use of medium and heavy equipment, two of whichis preferred to have been related to highway repair.

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