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Construction/Heavy Equipment/Earthmoving Equipment Operation. Academic Program Description
A program that prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to operate and maintain a variety of heavy equipment, such as a crawler tractors, motor graders and scrapers, shovels, rigging devices, hoists, and jacks. Includes instruction in digging, ditching, sloping, stripping, grading, and backfiling, clearing and excavating.
Related Occupations
- Continuous Mining Machine Operators
- Crane and Tower Operators
- Dredge Operators
- Earth Drillers
- Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators
- Highway Maintenance Workers
- Hoist and Winch Operators
- Mine Cutting and Channeling Machine Operators
- Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators
- Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators
- Pile-Driver Operators
- Rail-Track Laying and Maintenance Equipment Operators
- Riggers
Colleges Offering this Curriculum
- Bakersfield College
- Bates Technical College
- Blackfeet Community College
- Brazosport College
- Butte College
- Central Arizona College
- Central Lakes College-Brainerd
- Central Pennsylvania Institute of Science and Technology
- College of Eastern Utah
- Copiah-Lincoln Community College
- Dekalb Technical College
- Flathead Valley Community College
- Florida Community College at Jacksonville
- Great Oaks Institute of Technology and Career Development
- Hazard Community and Technical College
- Jefferson Davis Community College
- Lansing Community College
- Linn State Technical College
- Mesa Community College
- Mid Florida Tech
- Mid-State Technical College
- Mississippi Delta Community College
- North Arkansas College
- Northwest Iowa Community College
- Northwest Technical Institute
- Rio Hondo College
- Santiago Canyon College
- Schuylkill Technology Centers
- Shelton State Community College
- Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College
- The University of Montana
- Washington-Holmes Technical Center
- Wasington County Community College
- Wilson Technical Community College