APPRENTICE POWER EQUIPMENT OPERATOR - Portland, OR locations

Job description

Job Summary: Grading and Paving operators provide grading and paving construction services to homeowners, commercial businesses and State and Federal agencies. Job sizes range from installing a private home driveway to constructing large expanses of interstate highway. You will be responsible for the safe operation of a variety of tools and equipment, including rollers, excavators, motor graders, dozers, trucks, paving machines, screeds, backhoes and pickup machines. You will also use a wide range of powered and nonpowered small tools including shovels, rakes, hand-controlled compaction machines, paving breakers/jack hammers, pumps and generators. As an apprentice, you will be directly involved in job site layout, as a grade checker and traffic control (flagger). CDL prep courses and trucking driving are a training requirement for the apprenticeship program and will require having a valid driver’s license. Program Duration: 3775 hours of on-the-job training (usually 4 years) and a minimum of 144 hours of related training (academic/ classroom training shall be required during each year for each of the first two (2) years of the program. A minimum of 40 hours of related training shal...