Role Description

Skills required

You'll need:

• good concentration
• the ability to follow detailed instructions
• the ability to work at height for some jobs

What you'll do

Depending on your job, you'll work with the machinery and equipment used on major civil engineering projects, construction and house building sites, roadworks, demolition sites, quarries and railways. You could use machines like:

• 180 and 360 degree excavators
• earth moving bulldozers and dump trucks
• loading shovels
• mobile and crawler cranes
• tower cranes
• compactors used for levelling out work areas
• piling rigs
• concrete pumps

You'll carry out daily safety checks on the machine you are using, and change buckets and other attachments. You'll need a good level of fitness for climbing in and out of cabs.

You could also use forklifts to unload and move materials around the site.

If you operate a crane, you'll work with a slinger signaller who'll attach the loads and direct you by signals or radio.