This job isn’t a typical tractor-on-the-farm job; you’ll be working on all types of construction projects. As a Heavy Equipment Operator – Tractor Loader Backhoe, you’ll be a key player in road construction and maintenance, mining, quarrying, land clearing, forestry, logging, gas, and oil. You are responsible for inspecting, maintaining, transporting, and operating this equipment and its attachments. These attachments will include buckets, bucket thumbs, quick couplers, splitters, grapples, teeth, and adapters. 
 
You’ll be using a tractor loader backhoe to clear ice and snow, perform cut and fill operations, backfill trenches and excavations, stockpile and place materials, excavate trenches and ditches, load trucks, lift materials, clean-up job sites, perform logging and surface mining operations, and demolitions.