Living Earth, the leading producer of premium soil blends and elite mulch in Texas and Tennessee is seeking heavy equipment operators. The successful candidate will operate and minimally maintain front loaders and excavators on our work site. The position is Monday through Friday with Saturday hours as needed.
The highly attractive compensation package includes competitive hourly wages and semi-annual discretionary bonuses. Living Earth also offers an amazing portfolio of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, flexible spending, and an employer matched 401K. Paid holiday, vacation time and sick time are offered as well.
If your qualifications match the attributes below, we hope you will apply for this amazing opportunity to help grow our green, environmentally friendly, recyclable business.
Description
Operate heavy equipment in compliance with the company's operating safety policies and
procedures
Provide recommendations for maintaining and improving environmental performance
Load mulch, soils, compost, sands and gravels into dump trucks and customer vehicles
Ensure company equipment and material is maintained, kept cleaned, and stored in a safe
manner
Check filters and grease equipment
Keep work area and equipment clean by collecting and disposing of scrap, excess
materials, and refuse
Proactively communicate with Site Manager and coworkers
Complete required paperwork, reporting, and other documentation as required
Requirements
Experience operating heavy equipment.
Hand and Foot Coordination: You need to be able to coordinate movements of your
hands and feet in order to guide very large machinery in tight places.
Operation Monitoring: The ability to read gauges, dials, and other indicators, adjust them
is necessary.
Coordination: On busy construction sites, you must be able to coordinate your actions
with those of other workers.
Troubleshooting: It is essential that anyone operating heavy equipment is able to detect
and fix operating problems.
Critical Thinking: Your job will require you to identify the strengths and weaknesses of
solutions to problems in order to choose the one that is most likely to be successful.
Must have the ability and willingness to work in all types of adverse conditions such as
extreme weather, enclosed spaces and heights up to 30 feet
Able to pass a drug test
Be able to recognize safety issues
Willing to accommodate a schedule that can require weekend work
Ability to work without close supervision once directed on task
