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Heavy Equipment Technician Apprentice - Suffolk, VA

Branch Civil
Suffolk, VA, US
Full-time

Position Summary

Branch Civil, Inc. is searching for a Heavy Equipment Technician Apprentice to join the team!

Duties / Responsibilities

The Roanoke-based Heavy Equipment Technician Apprenticeship provides apprentices with the on-the-job and classroom training hours required to earn their heavy equipment technician journeyman’s card, which has reciprocity in other states.

Over the course of four years, the apprentices will learn through a blend of in-house training, John Deere University, CAT University, LinkedIn courses, and the 16-week Virginia Western welding program.

In total, they’ll receive 2,000 hours of on-the-job training and 144 hours of instruction in the classroom per year.

Duties / Responsibilities Cont.

Qualifications

  • This program is open to those who are 18 years old or older (no previous experience required).
  • Apprentices will be paid an hourly rate during on-the-job training.
  • The company provides learning materials.
  • Each apprentice will be assigned a mentor to oversee training and development.
  • Upon completion of the four-year program, the apprentice will receive their journeyman’s card.

Competencies

Dependability

Initiative

Accepting Direction

Performing Physical or Mechanical Tasks

Delivering High Quality Work

Travel

Travel to and from job sites is required.

Supervisory Responsibility

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use their hands and fingers to handle, feel or operate objects, tools, or controls, and reach with hands and arms.

They will need to stand (approximately 60%), walk (approximately 30%), and sit (approximately 10%). The employee will also need to be able to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach, handle, feel, talk, and hear.

The employee will need to be able to carry up to 75lbs, lift up to 100 lbs, and move up to 200lbs.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, midrange vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Position Type / Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time position which typically requires 40 hours per week.

AAP / EEO Statement

It has been and will continue to be a fundamental policy of the Company not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or status as a veteran, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law, with respect to recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, and other terms and condition of employment.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job.

Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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