Job Description: Front End Loader Operator  
Department: Field
Location: Central Florida Area

 

Southland Construction, Inc. is a general contractor providing vertical, heavy highway, and utility construction services in Florida since 1977. Southland has employed as many as 205 full time experienced people with a wide variety of talents second to none in the construction industry. We perform services for both public and private clients.

 

We are looking for loader operators to join our team. 

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Responsibilities: 

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• Take action to avoid potential hazards and obstructions, such as utility lines, other equipment, other workers, and falling objects.

• Start engines, move throttles, switches, and levers, and depress pedals to operate such stated machines.

• Locate underground services, such as pipes and wires, prior to beginning work.

• Monitor operations to ensure that health and safety standards are met.

• Align machines with reference stakes and guidelines or ground or position equipment, following hand signals of other workers.

• Load and move dirt, rocks, equipment, and materials, using trucks, crawler tractors, shovels, graders, or related equipment.

• Coordinate machine actions with other activities, positioning or moving loads in response to hand or audio signals from crew members.

• Greases, oils, and performs minor repairs on tractor, using grease gun, oil cans, and hand tools 

• Other duties as required

 

Requirements 

 

• 3-5 years of experience operating a loader

• Knowledge of GPS systems preferred, but not required

We are an Equal Opportunity company.