Army Careers 12N - Horizontal Construction Engineer
Channel: SGTSaylor
Date: 2011-08-24

The Army is always completing hundreds of construction projects and Heavy Construction Equipment Operators are integral to that process. Airfields, roads, dams and buildings can't be created without moving tons of earth and building materials or producing concrete and asphalt. Construction equipment operators use bulldozers, cranes, graders and other heavy equipment to complete these kinds of projects.

Construction Equipment Operators are responsible for operating crawler and wheeled tractors with dozer attachments, scoop loader, backhoe loaders, hydraulic excavators, motorized grader and towed or self-propelled scraper. Some of your duties as a Construction Equipment Operator may include:

   -Interpret information on grade stakes, placing or replacing grade stakes
   -Drive bulldozers, roadgraders, and other heavy equipment to cut and level earth for runways and roadbeds
   -Clear, grub, strip, excavate, backfill, stockpile and push scraper with tractor crawler
   -Cut and spread fill material with scraper
   -Transport heavy construction equipment with tractor-trailer
   -Assist in performance of combat engineer missions
   -Lift and move steel and other heavy building materials using winches, cranes, and hoists
   -Dig holes and trenches using power shovels