Heavy Equipment Operator II Full-time Job

This posting is to fill a permanent position in Carmacks.

What to expect at Transportation Maintenance Branch

Our teams are agile, collaborative and driven by possibilities. At every career stage, we have a structure of support and training to help you develop what you need to succeed. Our career programs put you in the driver’s seat, so you can manage your achievements and build on your strengths and abilities. With so many opportunities across the network, your career route with TMB can be as broad and varied as your vision.

We help to bring warmth to Yukon homes by keeping road safe, enabling journeys across the Yukon and beyond. Join us to bridge the Yukon with the world.

Learn from the best and build your skills,

Enjoy the flexibility to excel in your role,

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Highways and Public Works – who we are

Employees at Highways and Public Works are responsible for ensuring safe and efficient public highways, airstrips, buildings, and information systems. Our collective vision is to make a difference in the lives of Yukoners.  At all levels of our organization, we value leadership, innovation, teamwork, and keeping our people safe. Our priorities are to be client focused, to support our people, to build sustainably, and to advance reconciliation throughout Yukon.

This opportunity…

Reporting to the Road Foreperson, this position is responsible for operating various pieces of light and heavy equipment to maintain highways, recreational roads and airstrips to acceptable standards.  Duties include assessing work to be performed, terrain, weather conditions and equipment needs; placing signs to warn traffic of equipment working; making adjustments and minor repairs as required; steaming culverts; operating snow blowers, cleaning the shop and yard area; and other related duties.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please review this information: Apply on a job | Government of Yukon

Essential Qualifications (what we’re looking for in your resume):
Please submit your resume clearly demonstrating how you meet each of the following qulifications. Please note, for further consideration will be based solely on the information you provide in your resume.

• Job experience operating a wide variety of heavy equipment which must include a dump truck, loader and grader.
• Valid unrestricted (no restriction to automatic transmission) Yukon Class 1 driver’s licence with air endorsement
   

If your resume shows education, training, and/or experience equivalent to the essential qualifications listed above, your application may be equally considered.
 

Desired Knowledge, Skills and Suitability (what candidates will be assessed on):
Candidates should have and may be assessed on the following:

• Safety and service oriented
• Dedicated to working in an environment which promotes respect, dependability and reliability
• Motivation to learn
• Effective oral communication skills
• Self-motivated and adaptable to changing conditions
• Willing to work to contribute to the team environment;
• Willingness to perform general preventative maintenance on equipment which includes; changing oil, grease fittings, service/maintain vehicle issues.

Conditions of Employment

• Valid unrestricted (no restriction to automatic transmission) Yukon Class 1 driver’s licence with air endorsement
• YG competency on heavy equipment (grader, loader, dump truck or tractor trailer)
• Transportation Dangerous Goods Certificate (must be obtained within 6 months of hire).
• WHMIS certificate (must be obtained within 1 months of hire).
   

Job Requirements

Travel, working in adverse weather conditions, mandatory use of personal protective equipment, personal tool kit, steel toe work boots, adhering to the safety program and all applicable policies and procedures.

Questions?

If you have questions about this position, please contact Scott Mueller, Eastern Area Superintendent at [email protected]

If you have questions about applying on a job with Yukon government or if you need an accommodation for this staffing process, please contact Jody Meir, HR Consultant at [email protected]