Background information about the job or company (e.g., role context, company overview)

Responsible for leveling, shaping, and maintaining road surfaces, building sites, and mining haul roads to precise specifications.

Responsibilities or duties

Surface Preparation: Operates the motor grader to cut, fill, and grade dirt, gravel, or asphalt, preparing surfaces for paving or foundational work.

Site Maintenance: Performs finish grading, slope shaping, ditch cutting, and road crowning to precise tolerances.

Equipment Maintenance: Conducts daily checks (fluids, tires, blade condition), performs routine maintenance, and greases the machine.

Safety Compliance: Adheres to strict safety protocols, including checking for underground utilities, maintaining safe distances, and operating securely on slopes.

Grade Reading: Interprets survey stakes, blueprints, or GPS data to achieve required elevations

Qualifications or requirements (e.g., education, skills)

Experience: Generally requires 2+ years of experience operating a motor grader in construction or mining environments.

Skills: Strong spatial awareness, attention to detail, and technical proficiency in using blade controls.

Certifications: Valid driver’s license, often with a heavy vehicle endorsement; specific site safety certifications (e.g., OH&S, OSHA).

Physical Stamina: Ability to perform manual tasks, such as changing cutting edges (blades) and inspecting equipment

Common Work Environments

Road construction and infrastructure projects.

Mining and earthmoving operations.

Municipal maintenance

Grade 12 a must

• Operates the motor grader to cut, fill, and grade dirt, gravel, or asphalt, preparing surfaces for paving or foundational work.
• Performs finish grading, slope shaping, ditch cutting, and road crowning to precise tolerances.
• Conducts daily checks (fluids, tires, blade condition), performs routine maintenance, and greases the machine.
• Adheres to strict safety protocols, including checking for underground utilities, maintaining safe distances, and operating securely on slopes.
• Interprets survey stakes, blueprints, or GPS data to achieve required elevations

• Strong spatial awareness
• Attention to detail
• Technical proficiency in using blade controls

• Valid driver’s license, often with a heavy vehicle endorsement
• Specific site safety certifications (e.g., OH&S, OSHA)
• Ability to perform manual tasks, such as changing cutting edges (blades) and inspecting equipment