Heavy Equipment Operator

Put your equipment operating skills to work supporting Greensboro’s essential infrastructure. As a Heavy Equipment Operator with the City of Greensboro’s Water Resources Department, you’ll help construct, repair, and maintain stormwater systems, roads, creeks, ditches, and rights-of-way. Your work will help protect public infrastructure, support safe transportation, and keep the community functioning through changing weather and seasonal demands.

The City of Greensboro’s Water Resources Department provides essential water, wastewater, and stormwater services that support public health, environmental protection, and community well-being. Through hands-on maintenance, construction, and emergency response, the team helps maintain stormwater infrastructure and related public assets throughout the City.

Compensation and Benefits:

Estimated Hiring Salary Range: $50,376.00 - $57,573.00   Full Salary Range: $43,755.00 - $78,299.00 Annually

Benefits: 

The City of Greensboro offers an outstanding benefits package that supports your well-being.

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Work Schedule: 

• Make a tangible difference: Help maintain the infrastructure that keeps Greensboro’s neighborhoods and public spaces safe and functional.
• Put your skills to work: Operate a variety of heavy equipment and use specialized tools across diverse projects.
• Take on meaningful challenges: Support construction, maintenance, and emergency response efforts that serve the community.
• Work with a dedicated team: Collaborate with colleagues to complete projects safely, efficiently, and effectively.
• Build a varied career: Take part in everything from stormwater system maintenance to seasonal operations and storm recovery.

As a Heavy Equipment Operator, you’ll operate and maintain heavy equipment to construct, repair, and service City- and State-maintained stormwater systems, roads, and rights-of-way. This hands-on role combines equipment operation, construction, routine maintenance, and emergency response to support the reliability and safety of public infrastructure.

Key responsibilities include:

• Operating heavy equipment such as backhoes, motor graders, dump trucks, rubber-tire loaders, track excavators, vacuum trucks (Vactor trucks), and bulldozers for construction and maintenance projects.
• Performing work involving storm drainage systems, creeks, ditches, streets, parks, and rights-of-way.
• Completing additional construction and maintenance tasks, including concrete work, truck driving, jackhammering, creek bank maintenance, tree removal, and other minor repairs.
• Operating hand and power tools, including grease machines, chainsaws, and pole saws.
• Participating in seasonal operations, such as loose-leaf collection, and emergency response activities, including snow and ice operations and storm debris removal.
• Inspecting and maintaining assigned heavy equipment through routine lubrication, cleaning, and other safety-related maintenance tasks.
• Supporting project needs through extended work hours, emergency call-ins, and nontraditional schedules as required.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys hands-on outdoor work, understands the importance of safe equipment operation, and takes pride in maintaining essential public infrastructure. Strong attention to safety, equipment care, teamwork, and adaptability are important to success in this position.

The work involves operating heavy equipment in varied environments and supporting seasonal and emergency operations. Flexibility to work extended hours, respond to emergency call-ins, and work outside a typical schedule is essential to meeting operational and community needs.

Put your heavy equipment operating skills to work on projects that keep Greensboro’s infrastructure functioning and its neighborhoods connected. Join the City of Greensboro’s Water Resources team and help build, maintain, and protect the systems our community depends on every day!

• High School Diploma/GED, with 1 years of experience operating backhoes, motor graders, track excavators, bulldozers, rubber-tire loaders, dump trucks, vactor trucks, and other specialized equipment. 
• Unrestricted Class A Commercial Driver's License (Or the ability to obtain within 120 days of employment), Tanker Endorsement
• Additional Requirements:
  • If assigned to Stormwater -- Miner Certification ("Or" the ability to obtain within one year of hire date)
  • If operating a forklift, Forklift Operator's License will be required.

• Class A or B Commercial Driver's License;
• Class A or B CDL with Tanker Endorsement
• Experience reading and interpreting route maps.
• Experience with concrete work, truck driving, jackhammering, creek stabilization, tree removal, and general construction activities.
• Experience constructing, repairing, and maintaining storm drainage systems, culverts, ditches, creeks, roads, parks, and rights-of-way.

Salary : $43,755 - $78,299