p>• Learn and follow safety regulations • Wear required safety equipment, including but not limited to: • Hard hats • Safety glasses • Safety harness • Ear plugs • Dust masks • Gloves • Capable of handling constant conditions associated with riding in a loader • Physically capable of climbing up and down above, inside, and under equipment • Able to perform shoveling • Capable of doing repetitious arm, hand, and leg motion • Stand or sit for considerable amounts of time • Adjust handwheels and depress pedals to control attachments, such as blades, buckets, scrapers, or swing booms • Start engines, move throttles, switches, or levers, or depress pedals to operate machines, such as bulldozers, trench excavators, road graders, or backhoes • Coordinate machine actions with other activities, positioning or moving loads in response to hand or audio signals from crew members • Load and move dirt, rocks, equipment, or other materials using trucks, crawler tractors, power cranes, shovels, graders, or related equipment • Check fuel supplies at sites to ensure adequate availability • Drive and maneuver equipment equipped with blades in successive passes over working areas to remove topsoil, vegetation, or rocks, or to distribute and level earth or terrain • Keep records of material or equipment usage or problems encountered • Repair and maintain equipment, making emergency adjustments or assisting with major repairs as necessary. • Technical Skills: An understanding of technical skills, including: • Controlling operations of equipment or systems • Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly • Determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed on equipment • Government Processes and Regulations: Understands and abides by all government processes and regulations.