Heavy Equipment Operations
About
The Heavy Equipment Operations, curriculum prepares students to efficiently operate heavy equipment such as dozers, loaders, scrapers, and graders, to perform maintenance on various types of heavy equipment, and to manage equipment systems. Course work includes construction safety, proper equipment operation, grades, drawings, environmental concerns, heavy equipment design characteristics and features, equipment maintenance and service, and common equipment systems. Graduates of this program may find employment with state and local government agencies and private contractors engaged in highway or other construction activities.
Potential Careers
The following occupational information is provided by www.nccareers.org and is subject to change. The occupations list is not an exhaustive list and may include careers that require higher levels of education than those provided at NCCCS colleges.
Continuous Mining Machine Operators
Crane and Tower Operators
Dredge Operators
Earth Drillers
Earth Drillers, Except Oil and Gas
Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining
Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters
First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers
Highway Maintenance Workers
Hoist and Winch Operators
Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators
Logging Equipment Operators
Material Moving Workers, Other
Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators
Paving, Surfacing and Tamping Equipment Operators
Pile Driver Operators
Rail-Track Laying and Maintenance Equipment Operators
Surface Mining Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators
