A program that prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to operate and maintain a variety of heavy equipment, such as a crawler tractors, motor graders and scrapers, shovels, rigging devices, hoists, and jacks. Includes instruction in digging, ditching, sloping, stripping, grading, and backfiling, clearing and excavating.
| A major in Construction/Heavy Equipment/Earthmoving Equipment Operation is highly relevant for the following careers. National averages for wages in each career is provided. |
- Construction and Related Workers, All Other
- Continuous Mining Machine Operators - $45,570
- Crane and Tower Operators - $45,430
- Dredge Operators - $39,040
- Extraction Workers, All Other
- Highway Maintenance Workers - $35,040
- Hoist and Winch Operators - $41,340
- Mine Cutting and Channeling Machine Operators - $41,510
- Mining Machine Operators, All Other
- Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators - $36,490
- Pile-Driver Operators - $51,640
- Rail-Track Laying and Maintenance Equipment Operators - $44,870
- Riggers - $42,620
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