ASRC Federal Communications is seeing a Heavy Equipment Operator for our ISS2 contact supporting our Air Force customer. This position is located on Wake Island.

This position will require that the employee work on site at Wake Island. Transportation from Honolulu, Hawaii to Wake Island will be furnished by government sponsored aircraft. Meals and housing will be provided by the program while working on the island. Employees will live in a dormitory housing environment and meals will be furnished daily through the cafeteria commissary. This role is perfect for someone who is able to remain away for long periods of time while working on island with occasional scheduled trips back to Honolulu.

Key Role:

• Operate various heavy equipment including excavators, backhoes, and front-end loaders on environmental and construction job sites.

• Monitor job site for hazards and challenge unauthorized personnel on job site and maintain a safe working environment.

• Maintain constant awareness of surroundings including eye contact with ground personnel and recognize job site specific hazards.

• Maintain safe excavation areas to include benching, shoring, and barricading as necessary to allow.

• Take actions to avoid potential hazards and obstructions, such as utility lines, other equipment, other workers, and falling objects.

• Align machines, cutter heads, 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, and materials using trucks, crawler tractors, power cranes, shovels, graders, and related equipment.

• Operate tractors and bulldozers to perform such tasks as clearing land, mixing sludge, trimming backfills, and building/repairing roadways.

• Connect hydraulic hoses, belts, mechanical linkages, or power takeoff shafts to tractors.

• Select and fasten bulldozer blades or other attachments to tractors using hitches.

• Operate road watering, oiling, and rolling equipment, and street sealing equipment, such as chip spreaders.

• Drive tractor-trailer trucks to move equipment.

• Operate equipment to demolish and remove debris.

• Perform other duties as assigned by management.

Requirements :

Minimum Qualifications

• High School Graduate or General Education Degree (GED)

• Operators certificate

• 5 to 10 years of experience as journeyman level operator

• Ability to understand, speak, read, and write English.

• Proficient operating skills - ability to finish road grade with a motor grader, ability to excavate and install mainline utilities (waterline, sewer line, and storm sewer) to specified line and grade, operate an excavator while using a trench box productively, read and interpret grade stakes, install finish grade with a dozer and manage a fill site while operating a dozer.

• Knowledge of construction, machines, and tools; including their designs, uses, repair and maintenance, and the practical application of engineering science/technology.

• Ability to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) (Goggles, Hardhats, Safety Shoes, etc.)

• Valid driver's license with clean driving record,

• Position requires frequent lifting, sitting, standing, stooping for prolonged periods of time, using hands/fingers requiring dexterity, should have good hand-eye coordination and motion control in coordination with handling tools, equipment and other related components.

• Ability to lift 50 pounds.

• Ability to successfully pass a pre-employment physical and drug test.

• Ability to pass a National Agency Check with Inquires background check.

ASRC Federal and its Subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, gender, color, age, sexual orientation, gender identification, national origin, religion, marital status, ancestry, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, or any other factor prohibited by applicable law.