DELTA | Earth Moving Heavy Equipment Operator (Dirt Crew) NE-Arkansas

Earth Moving Heavy Equipment Operator (Dirt Crew)

Company: REEVES CONSTRUCTION COMPANY

Job Location: PARAGOULD, ARKANSAS, USA

Type of Contract: Regular

Delta Companies Inc. is a division of Reeves Construction Company, the Colas USA subsidiary that operates throughout the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Missouri and Arkansas. Delta is a highway and site development contractor specializing in asphalt paving and road construction materials. Delta is vertically integrated, with numerous aggregate locations, asphalt plants, a liquid asphalt terminal, and local construction offices, to serve multiple transportation infrastructure needs. Delta continuously strives to be a model of excellence by working with our customers to provide safe, sustainable, and cost-effective solutions.

Main Responsibilities:

• Adhere to Delta's safety programs to ensure a safe work environment.
• Operate heavy equipment.
• Have an accurate and working knowledge of heavy equipment.
• Willingness and ability to keep equipment maintained and clean.
• Willingness to work nights and weekends.
• Operate equipment in a safe and consistent manner.
• Flexibility to perform various labor activities including, but not limited to shoveling dirt or asphalt using short or long handle shovels; cutting or trimming trees and vegetation using axes, ditch blades, sling blades, chain saws or power weed trimmers; driving stakes or breaking pavement using sledgehammers, digging holes using hand-operated post hole diggers; operating hand-driven compaction devices, and brooming dirt and debris using hand brooms.

Job Requirements:

• Must be at least 18 years of age.
• Must have one or more years experience working in and around construction equipment.
• Must provide own transportation to and from work.

Physical Demands:

• Must be able to climb onto and up and down a machine several times a day.
• Must be able to sit in a machine and operate it for several hours without stopping.
• Must withstand vibration from job site conditions as well as noise from other equipment.
• Must have the ability to perform physical labor, such as standing for long periods of time, lifting, climbing, shoveling and having agility in the heat.
• Must be able to use arms, hands, and feet in repetitive motions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach and signal with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear; and taste or smell.
• The employee frequently is required to stand and walk.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit.
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust.

Work Environment:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts, outside weather conditions, and vibration.
• The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and toxic or caustic chemicals.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually very loud.

Benefits and General Information:

Competitive pay & comprehensive benefits include paid holidays, vacation, life insurance, accidental death & dismemberment insurance, group health plan options (incl. medical, dental & vision, HSA, FSA), short term disability benefits & 401(k)/401(k) Roth w/company match.

Colas Inc. and its subsidiaries are an Equal Opportunity Employer.