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Excavating machine operator

Surrey, British Columbia · posted 2026-09-15

$37.00 hourly

Pay is about the local median for this work ($37.00 an hour; Job Bank, 2023–2024)

What the posting asks for

  • 1 to 2 years' experience
  • High school
  • English

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Hours and terms

  • 30 to 40 hours a week
  • Full time, Permanent employment
  • In person

Usually needed for this kind of work

  • Some secondary school education is required.
  • Completion of a one- to two-year apprenticeship program or some high school, college or industry courses in heavy equipment operating combined with on-the-job training are required.
  • Internal company certification may be required by some employers.
  • Red Seal endorsement is also available to qualified heavy equipment operators upon successful completion of the interprovincial Red Seal examination.

From Canada's occupation guide (OaSIS) for Heavy equipment operators (NOC 73400). It describes this kind of work in general, not this employer's ad.

What this work usually involves

  • Operate heavy equipment such as backhoes, bulldozers, loaders and graders to excavate, move, load and grade earth, rock, gravel or other materials during construction and related activities
  • Operate bulldozers or other heavy equipment to clear brush and stumps prior to logging activities and to build roads at logging and surface mining sites
  • Operate heavy equipment with pile driver head to drive piling into earth to provide support for buildings, bridges or other structures
  • Operate heavy dredging equipment to deepen waterways or reclaim earth fill
  • Operate heavy paving and surfacing equipment to lay, spread or compact concrete, asphalt and other surface materials during highway and road construction
  • Operate power shovels to excavate rock, ore or other materials from open-pit mines, strip mines, quarries or construction pits

About the employer

  • Industry: Construction
  • Region: Lower Mainland–Southwest Region

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