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Operating Engineer

Pepper Construction and Careers
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 12/27/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/27/2026
With offices in Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Ohio, Pepper Construction is a national general contracting and construction management firm that primarily serves the private sector. Pepper Construction provides clients the experience and resources of a national company, combined with the hands-on approach of a local company.

Excavating of all types, paving of all types, bridges, culverts, roads, streets, airport runways, ramps, grading, resurfacing, grade separations, overpasses, underpasses, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, parking areas, skyways, caissons, and all other highway construction work, underground and utility work of all types, hydro and vacuum excavation, sewers, subways, tunnels, water mains, piping, pipe jacking, headwalls, outfall structures, junction chambers, concrete construction, conduits, drainage, sheeting, dewatering, pile driving and all other underground utility work, heavy construction work of all types, dams, cofferdams, dock walls, shore protection and all land-based operations involving lakes, harbors, and river improvements; snow removal, flood controls, civil defense, fire and catastrophe operations of all types, landscaping, black dirt and black dirt fields, and wrecking of all types, dismantling or demolition of any building structure, railroad spurs from main line to building line, all farm and land improvements and all assembly and disassembly of all equipment on the job site coming under the jurisdiction of the operating engineers.

Pepper Construction pays at union scale with union benefits.

Pepper Construction is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

Please note: Pepper does not sponsor work visas.

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