Equipment Operator Hydrovac Truck
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Job Location:
Traverse City, MI - USA
Hourly Salary:
USD 23 - 28
Posted on:
21-10-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Equipment Operator - Hydrovac Truck
Team Elmers seeks to fill this position hired individual will be the operation and general maintenance of a Hydrovac truck with a rodding system.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Hydrovac for hydro excavation utility spotting dewatering basin cleaning and jetting of sanitary lines.
- Check vehicles to ensure that mechanical safety and emergency equipment is in good working order.
- Report vehicle defects accidents traffic violations or damage to the vehicles.
- Obtain receipts or signatures for delivered goods and collect payment for services when required.
- Read tickets to determine assignment details.
- Read and interpret maps to determine vehicle routes.
- Maintain cleanliness of the truck inside and out. Cleaning of suction tubes and rear spoils storage area.
- Perform pre-trip and post-trip inspections.
- Operation monitoring - watching gauges dials or other indicators to ensure the machine works properly.
- Time Management - Managing ones own time and the time of others.
- Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Monitoring - Monitoring/Assessing the performance of yourself other individuals or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Assemble and disassemble the suction tubes to reach the required depths.
- Become familiar with the Hydrovac truck the machines capabilities and limitations and with efficient and safe operation procedures in a given application.
- Observe hand signals grade stakes or other markings when operating machines so that work can be performed to specifications.
- Receive written or oral instructions regarding material movement or excavation.
- Able to work by themselves.
- Lubricate adjust or repair machinery and replace parts such as rubber and steel suction tubing and high-pressure water lines.
- Recognize proper sloping to achieve an OSHA-safe excavation.
- Perform manual labor to prepare or finish sites such as shoveling materials by hand.
- Know and follow all company safety policies as well as OSHA MIOSHA MSHA and ANSI regulations.
The above list of job duties is not exclusive or exhaustive and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks as may reasonably be expected within the scope of the position.
EEO/AA
Qualifications:
- Valid license CDL A or B
- Clean driving record for the past 5 years
Key Skills
- Mechanic Experience
- Crane
- caterpillar
- Construction Experience
- Heavy Equipment Operation
- Water Truck Experience
- Commercial Driving
- Paving
- Dozer
- Equipment Repair
- Excavator
- Front Loader Truck
About Company
Providing Concrete, Asphalt, Excavation, Gravel, Stone, & Aggregate Material in Northern Michigan with Integrity, Quality, & Reliable Service
