heavy equipment operator
Crane cabin worker
A heavy equipment operator is a worker who operates large machines used in construction, mining, forestry, or similar industries—bulldozers, excavators, cranes, graders, and the like.
The job requires skill in maneuvering powerful machinery, often in challenging terrain: She worked as a heavy equipment operator on highway projects for fifteen years.
- bulldozerBladed vehicle pushing earth
- excavatorMachine that digs earth
- heavy machineryLarge powered industrial apparatus
- craneLifter or wader
- forkliftPowered pallet-hoisting vehicle
backhoe · grader · loader · big rig · dirt · digging deep · cab · diesel · rumble · jobsite · ground crew · hardhat · safety vest · work boots · levers · throttle · tracks · bucket
- workersworkers, employee, employees, laborer, laborers
- construction workersconstruction worker, laborer, foreman, site foreman, site supervisor
- skilled tradeselectrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, welder
- Trade Careerselectrician, plumber, carpenter, welder, machinist
- military jobssoldier, infantryman, marine, sailor, combat medic
- public worksstreets, sidewalks, sewers, traffic lights, stop sign
heavy equipment operatormanual laborer
Worker using physical effort
ditch digger · unskilled laborer · day laborer · stevedore · farm hand
heavy equipment operatoroffice worker
Indoor professional employee
white-collar worker · clerical worker · knowledge worker · administrative assistant · accountant
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