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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Operate or tend machinery equipped with scoops, shovels, or buckets, to excavate and load loose materials. | Move levers, depress foot pedals, and turn dials to operate power machinery, such as power shovels, stripping shovels, scraper loaders, or backhoes. | |||
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Set up or inspect equipment prior to operation. | ||||
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Observe hand signals, grade stakes, or other markings when operating machines so that work can be performed to specifications. | ||||
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Become familiar with digging plans, machine capabilities and limitations, and with efficient and safe digging procedures in a given application. | ||||
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Operate machinery to perform activities such as backfilling excavations, vibrating or breaking rock or concrete, or making winter roads. | ||||
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Create and maintain inclines and ramps, and handle slides, mud, and pit cleanings and maintenance. | ||||
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Lubricate, adjust, or repair machinery and replace parts, such as gears, bearings, or bucket teeth. | ||||
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Move materials over short distances, such as around a construction site, factory, or warehouse. | ||||
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Measure and verify levels of rock or gravel, bases, or other excavated material. | ||||
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Receive written or oral instructions regarding material movement or excavation. | ||||
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Adjust dig face angles for varying overburden depths and set lengths. | ||||
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Drive machines to work sites. | ||||
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Perform manual labor to prepare or finish sites, such as shoveling materials by hand. | ||||
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Direct ground workers engaged in activities such as moving stakes or markers, or changing positions of towers. | ||||
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Direct workers engaged in placing blocks or outriggers to prevent capsizing of machines when lifting heavy loads. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Excavating, Loading Machine and Dragline Operators
The Benchmark Job Description below represents the specific Position Characteristics of the job used in the Salary Survey. Benchmark Job Descriptions should be inspected carefully to review the degree of matching between an organizations' Job and the Salary Survey Benchmark. Matching internal Jobs to Salary Survey Benchmark Jobs should not be done on Job Title alone. A thorough comparison of Salary Survey Benchmark to Internal Job Descriptions is recommended. A good overlap should exist on any comparisons used on critical Job Dimensions and Competencies.- Job Description
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Important Knowledge Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Mechanical | Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. | |||
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Building and Construction | Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads. | |||
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Public Safety and Security | Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions. | |||
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Production and Processing | Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Operation and Control | Controlling operations of equipment or systems. | |||
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Operation Monitoring | Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly. | |||
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Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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Coordination | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. | |||
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Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. | |||
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Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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Troubleshooting | Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it. | |||
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Equipment Maintenance | Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed. | |||
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Repairing | Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools. | |||
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Quality Control Analysis | Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance. | |||
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Reading Comprehension | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. | |||
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Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. | |||
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Complex Problem Solving | Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. | |||
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Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. | |||
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Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Control Precision | The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. | |||
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Multilimb Coordination | The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion. | |||
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Depth Perception | The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object. | |||
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Manual Dexterity | The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. | |||
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Spatial Orientation | The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you. | |||
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Far Vision | The ability to see details at a distance. | |||
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Arm-Hand Steadiness | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. | |||
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Response Orientation | The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part. | |||
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Rate Control | The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene. | |||
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Reaction Time | The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears. | |||
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Auditory Attention | The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds. | |||
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Finger Dexterity | The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. | |||
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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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Peripheral Vision | The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead. | |||
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Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
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Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |||
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Static Strength | The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. | |||
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Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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Visualization | The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. | |||
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Speed of Limb Movement | The ability to quickly move the arms and legs. | |||
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Hearing Sensitivity | The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness. | |||
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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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Perceptual Speed | The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. | |||
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Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |||
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Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. | |||
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Time Sharing | The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources). | |||
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Visual Color Discrimination | The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness. | |||
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Glare Sensitivity | The ability to see objects in the presence of glare or bright lighting. | |||
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Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |||
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Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | |||
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Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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Wrist-Finger Speed | The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists. | |||
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Trunk Strength | The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing. | |||
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Sound Localization | The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated. | |||
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Night Vision | The ability to see under low light conditions. | |||
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Tools/Technology Example | Product Category | |||
Email software | Electronic mail software | |||
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Machine control systems | Industrial control software | |||
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Machine monitoring software | Industrial control software | |||
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Spreadsheet software | Spreadsheet software | |||
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Word processing software | Word processing software | |||
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Adjustable wrenches | Adjustable wrenches | |||
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Backhoes | Backhoes | |||
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Claw hammers | Hammers | |||
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Compact excavators | Track excavators | |||
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Computer terminals | Mainframe console or dumb terminals | |||
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Crawler mounted draglines | Draglines | |||
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Dump trucks | Dump trucks | |||
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Engineers' levels | Levels | |||
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Flatbed truck trailers | Flatbed trailers | |||
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Forklifts | Forklifts | |||
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Front end loaders | Front end loaders | |||
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Grading buckets | Earthmoving buckets or its parts or accessories | |||
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Grapplers | Grapples | |||
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Grease guns | Grease guns | |||
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Hand levels | Levels | |||
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Hydraulic excavators | Track excavators | |||
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Laser levels | Levels | |||
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Lifting slings | Slings | |||
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Locking pliers | Locking pliers | |||
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Measuring tapes | Tape measures | |||
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Mini excavators | Mobile excavators | |||
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Phillips head screwdrivers | Screwdrivers | |||
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Power augers | Boring or sinking machinery | |||
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Protective ear muffs | Ear muffs | |||
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Respirators | Respirators | |||
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Rock crushers | Rock crushers | |||
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Rock trucks | Dump trucks | |||
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Safety goggles | Goggles | |||
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Skid steer loaders | Skid steer loaders | |||
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Skip loaders | Skid steer loaders | |||
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Straight screwdrivers | Screwdrivers | |||
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Telescoping excavators | Mobile excavators | |||
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Tire pressure gauges | Pressure indicators | |||
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Tracked excavators | Track excavators | |||
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Walking draglines | Draglines | |||
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Wheel blocks | Wheel chocks | |||
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Wheel loaders | Wheel loaders | |||
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Wheeled excavators | Wheel excavators | |||
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Wireless touch screen monitors | Touch screen monitors | |||
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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
Required Level of Education | High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate) | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | Up to and including 1 month | |||
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Related Work Experience | Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years | |||
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Required Level of Education | Less than a High School Diploma | |||
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On-the-Job Training | Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Aerial Tram Operator | |||
Air Shovel Operator | |||
Back Digger Operator | |||
Back Filler Operator | |||
Back Hoe Machine Operator | |||
Back Hoe Operator | |||
Backhoe Operator | |||
Clam Shovel Operator | |||
Coal Equipment Operator | |||
Diesel Scoop Operator | |||
Dragline Oiler | |||
Dragline Operator | |||
Earth Moving Equipment Operator | |||
Earth Moving Machine Operator | |||
Electric Scoop Operator | |||
Electric Shovel Operator | |||
End Loader Operator | |||
Equipment Operator | |||
Excavator | |||
Excavator Backhoe Operator | |||
Excavator Operator | |||
Foundation Digger | |||
Fuel Operator | |||
Gas Shovel Operator | |||
Grave Digger | |||
Harvester Operator | |||
Heavy Equipment Operator | |||
Horseback Excavator | |||
Loader Operator | |||
Mechanical Shovel Operator | |||
Mill Operator | |||
Mucking Machine Operator | |||
Operating Engineer | |||
Payloader Machine Operator | |||
Payloader Operator | |||
Pit Foreman | |||
Pit Operator | |||
Pit Shovel Operator | |||
Plant Operator | |||
Plunger Scoop Operator | |||
Plunger Shovel Operator | |||
Power Digger Operator | |||
Power Shovel Operator | |||
Scoop Driver | |||
Scoop Operator | |||
Septic Tank Installer | |||
Septic Tank Setter | |||
Shovel Operator | |||
Steam Shovel Operator | |||
Steam Shovelman | |||
Stripper Shovel Operator | |||
Tower Excavator Operator | |||
Track Hoe Operator | |||
Tram Operator | |||
Trench Shovel Operator | |||
Trencher Driver | |||
Trenching Machine Operator | |||
Truck Driver | |||
Yard Loader Operator | |||
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