Equipment Operator

Position: Equipment Operator I
** Job Posting Title
** Equipment Operator I
** Agency
* * 025 OKLAHOMA MILITARY DEPARTMENT
** Supervisory Organization
** Oklahoma Military Department
** Job Posting End Date
** Refer to the date listed at the top of this posting, if available. Continuous if date is blank.

Note:

Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the posting end date above.
** Estimated Appointment End Date (Continuous if Blank)
**** Full/Part-Time
** Full time
** Job Type
** Regular
* * Compensation
* * benefits
* * Job Description
**** Starting Salary Range:** $2708.92 per month
** Benefits**:  This is a full-time state position that provides a percentage of matching contributions to employees’ retirement plans, 11 holidays, and a minimum of 15 days of annual and sick leave per year.  The state also offers a comprehensive benefits package, including a benefit allowance to offset the cost of insurance premiums for employees and their eligible dependents.
** Basic

Purpose:

** Positions in this job family are assigned responsibilities involving the operation of various types of equipment or machinery in performing various maintenance or construction activities, or in completing other functions involving the use of equipment or machinery.  This is an entry level position and will be training with higher level equipment operators.
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* Essential Functions:

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* • Drives trucks and buses to transport materials, trash, merchandise, equipment and/or employees; may load and unload truck assisted by others; makes minor mechanical repairs and keeps the truck clean and in good working order; and lubricates the moving parts or wearing surfaces of mechanical equipment.
• Drives a wheeled tractor, pulling rollers or sweeper brooms; drives tractor power mowers; operates an asphalt kettle up to 600-gallon capacity; operates compressor equipment driving jackhammers; operates tail grader; operates batch plant; operates mudjack; and/or operates pneumatic demolition hammer.
• Operates power shovels or cranes with hoe, dipper, clam shell, dragline, load hooks or other attachments in doing such tasks as excavating and moving earth, rock, sand and other bulky materials; moving lumber, girders and similar objects; loading trucks from stockpiles or borrow pits; clearing right-of-way; and/or making cuts and fills to grade.
• Operates a heavy bulldozer or tractor and scraper unit in earth-moving operations or similar maintenance or construction work.
• Performs all related and incidental work, such as building deck or platform, constructing and raising derrick, placing guy lines and rigging ropes, cables and pulleys and other work in erecting pile drivers; removing and replacing caps, braces, whalings, sills and other wharf and bridge members; cutting and trimming wharf and bridge members with saws and other tools; and/or bolting new frame members into place using boring machines or air drills.
• Operates a heavy-duty truck tractor used for hauling unusually large equipment; drives and operates large striping machine used in painting center lines and no passing stripes.
• Operates a heavy truck in the loading, transporting and distribution of valuable retail merchandise, heavy construction equipment and other materials.
• Operates a motor grader powered with gasoline or diesel engine used in work of a routine nature such as grading of gravel roads and shoulders.
• Performs or participates in preventive maintenance of equipment operated; moves equipment from one job to another.
* ** Knowledge,

Skills and Abilities

**:  Knowledge,

Skills and Abilities

required at this level include knowledge of the operation and maintenance of light power equipment; and how to operate equipment safely.  Skill is required to operate equipment.  Ability is required to follow oral and written instructions; and to communicate verbally to others in a courteous and respectful manner.
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* Education and Experience:

** Education and Experience requirements at this level consist of six (6) months of experience in the operation of trucks and light equipment or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
* ** Licenses/Certificates required**:
none
* ** Physical Requirements**:
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