IN-DEMAND CAREERS
High
1 YEAR
$61071
56,344
OPERATING ENGINEERS (IUOE)
Heavy Equipment operators operate one or more types of power construction equipment, such as motor graders, bulldozers, dump trucks, scrapers, compressors, pumps, derricks, shovels, tractors, or front-end loaders to excavate, move, and grade earth, erect structures, or pour concrete or other hard surface pavement. They may repair and maintain equipment in addition to other duties.
WHAT YOU WILL DO:
Operating Engineers operate equipment used for applying concrete, asphalt, or other materials to road beds, parking lots, or airport runways and taxiways, or equipment used for tamping gravel, dirt, or other materials.
Operating Engineers operate pile drivers mounted on skids, barges, crawler treads, or locomotive cranes to drive pilings for retaining walls, bulkheads, and foundations of structures, such as buildings, bridges, and piers.
Operators will operate crane and tower mechanical boom and cable or tower and cable equipment to lift and move materials, machines, or product.
Enhance Your Skills. Advance Your Life.
The Operating Engineers (IUOE) training programs are second to none. We have over one-thousand instructors, hundreds of facilities, classrooms, shops, and labs, and thousands of acres throughout the United States and Canada where apprentices and journey-level members hone or advance their skills. Our members have access to training on virtually every topic heavy equipment operators and stationary engineers need to become their very best.
Over the years, IUOE local unions throughout the U. S. and Canada have developed and implemented comprehensive training programs that are widely recognized as the best in a number of industries. Our aim has been and continues to be to provide highly skilled, safe, and productive heavy equipment operators and stationary/facilities engineers to the construction, pipeline, stationary and environmental industries.
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