H&K Group, Inc.

Experienced Excavator Operator

H&K Group, Inc.  •  Easton, PA (Onsite)  •  3 hours ago
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Job Description

Overview

Lehigh Valley Division, a division of H&K Group, Inc., is currently seeking an experienced and motivatedExcavator Operator to become a part of our team. This position entails the operation of excavator equipment and other paving activities to achieve daily production goals on road construction projects, often transferring from one task to another whenever the situation requires. If you meet the job requirements outlined below, H&K would be happy to consider you for this position.

Why work for H&K Group, Inc.?

  • Competitive salary commensurate with experience
  • 100% Company-paid Health Benefits
  • 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan
  • Tuition reimbursement programs available to qualifying employees for approved programs
  • Additional training programs including on the job, online through H&K Academy, manufacturer offered training, and more

Responsibilities

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

  • Performs all work adhering to OSHA and H&K Safety policies.
  • Perform pre and post trip of equipment every day and fill out daily inspection sheets.
  • Starts engine, shifts gears, presses pedals, and turns steering wheel/moves joysticks to operate loader.
  • Moves levers to lower and tilt bucket and drives front end loader forward to force bucket into finished product.
  • Moves levers to raise and tilt bucket when filled and dumps material into truck or rail.
  • Provide excellent customer service to all customers on site.
  • Maintains haul roads that are smooth and safe.
  • Keep stockpiles properly bermed and maintained.
  • Ensure product is blended correctly.
  • Performs routine maintenance on loader such as lubricating and cleaning.
  • Perform all work following company policies and procedures.
  • Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Required Skills, Education, and Experience

  • One-year certificate from an accredited college or technical school OR six months of related experience and/or training
  • Equivalent combinations of education and experience may be considered
  • Able to pass practical skills test for excavators and loaders
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to understand and carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions
  • Problem solving
  • Ability to fit test & utilize appropriate PPE as needed
  • Ability to meet physical requirements (movement, lifting, as relevant to job)

Preferred Skills, Education, and Experience

  • Two years of related experience and/or training
  • Experience and practical skills for other heavy equipment
  • Strong preference for experience and practical skills with a 330 excavator with hammer and loader
  • Experience working in heavy civil construction, road construction, or quarries
  • OSHA or other relevant safety certifications

Physical Demands

  • Regularly required to stand
  • Regularly use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms
  • Frequently required to walk
  • Occasionally climb or balance
  • Occasionally talk or hear
  • Frequently lift and/or move up to 100 pounds
  • Vision abilities include depth perception and ability to adjust focus

Work Environment

  • Regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts
  • Regularly exposed to fumes or airborne particles
  • Frequently exposed to outside weather conditions
  • Frequently exposed to vibration
  • Frequently exposed to high, precarious places
  • Noise level is usually very loud

H&K Group, Inc.’s (H&K’s) Lehigh Valley Division (formerly Lehigh Valley Site Contractors) has been a proud member of our heavy civil construction team since 1998. Strategically located just north of the City of Easton, PA, the Lehigh Valley Division provides complete heavy civil construction and contracting services to customers and clients throughout the Lehigh Valley, PA region, western NJ and beyond.

H&K provides complete heavy civil contracting and construction materials solutions with safety, speed, quality, efficiency, and value. Beginning as a small family business a half century ago, we are now a dynamic group of vertically integrated companies that has been growing and prospering for 50 years.

Thank you for your interest in employment with H&K Group, Inc. At H&K, we invest in our people, providing the essential training, instruction, and supervisory support that they need to develop and grow within our company. We acknowledge that our strength and success is directly related to our employees and the talents, dedication, and job performance they exemplify. We seek dynamic, motivated people who are driven to make a difference.

H&K does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are always looking for the best, most qualified people to join our team.

Pre-employment drug testing (EOE)

Pre-employment Physical

100% Company-Paid Health Benefits!

H&K Group, Inc.

About H&K Group, Inc.

H&K Group, Inc. (H&K) is a family of vertically integrated companies serving the heavy civil contracting and construction materials sectors with over 80 operations throughout eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.

We provide: heavy civil construction services – site & land development, transportation & structures, water & wastewater, design-build & value engineering, demolition, emergency response, construction materials – crushed stone, sand & gravel, asphalt, ready-mix and precast concrete and high quality building materials – manufactured concrete block, biosoils, landscape materials and more.

While embracing the legacy of “H&K” as our founders envisioned it, our new generation of family leadership is committed to refining our corporate goals and focusing intently on the future. With contemporary vision, strategy and a keen eye on technology and innovation, we continue to pioneer new processes and set new industry standards that consistently exceed our client’s most demanding project expectations.

Here at H&K, we live and work by a value system that places accountability, quality and integrity above all business practices and principals. In so doing, we have built a company culture that creates exceptional products and services while remaining socially responsible, ethical and fair in all that we do. By operating in this manner we have created a code of trust in our customers, clients, employees, and the communities in which we operate that is unrivaled in our industry.

Though large in capability, strength, experience and value, we are unique in our ability to remain hands-on, engaged and local in the way we conduct business at H&K. This, we believe, is the H&K difference.

We welcome the opportunity to provide our credentials, qualifications, and project experience to you.

Industry
Construction & Skilled Trades
Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Headquarters
Skippack, Pennsylvania
Year Founded
1968
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