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Construction, Heavy Equipment Operation

Brazosport College (BC)

  • 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. Find Colleges Offering Construction, Heavy Equipment Operation Degree.
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    • Job Description
      Operate equipment used for applying concrete, asphalt, or other materials to road beds, parking lots, or airport runways and taxiways, or equipment used for tamping gravel, dirt, or other materials. Includes concrete and asphalt paving machine operators, form tampers, tamping machine operators, and stone spreader operators.
      Salary and Wages

      Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX

      • Total Employment: 1,040
      • Average Annual Salary: $29,850
      • Average Hourly Rate: $14.35
      Projections
      • Total Employment (2006): 64,255
      • Total Employment Projected (2016): 70,056
      • Percent Job Growth: 9.03%
      Important Abilities
      • Problem Sensitivity
    • Job Description
      Operate pile drivers mounted on skids, barges, crawler treads, or locomotive cranes to drive pilings for retaining walls, bulkheads, and foundations of structures, such as buildings, bridges, and piers.
      Salary and Wages

      Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX

      • Total Employment: 240
      • Average Annual Salary: $40,280
      • Average Hourly Rate: $19.37
      Projections
      • Total Employment (2006): 5,584
      • Total Employment Projected (2016): 6,049
      • Percent Job Growth: 8.33%
      Important Abilities
      • Manual Dexterity
      • Control Precision
      • Multilimb Coordination
      • Rate Control
      • Reaction Time
      • Depth Perception
    • Job Description
      Operate one or several types of power construction equipment, such as motor graders, bulldozers, scrapers, compressors, pumps, derricks, shovels, tractors, or front-end loaders to excavate, move, and grade earth, erect structures, or pour concrete or other hard surface pavement. May repair and maintain equipment in addition to other duties.
      Salary and Wages

      Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX

      • Total Employment: 12,560
      • Average Annual Salary: $32,790
      • Average Hourly Rate: $15.77
      Projections
      • Total Employment (2006): 424,152
      • Total Employment Projected (2016): 459,649
      • Percent Job Growth: 8.37%
      Important Abilities
      • Oral Comprehension
      • Oral Expression
      • Control Precision
      • Multilimb Coordination
      • Near Vision
      • Depth Perception
    • Job Description
      Maintain highways, municipal and rural roads, airport runways, and rights-of-way. Duties include patching broken or eroded pavement, repairing guard rails, highway markers, and snow fences. May also mow or clear brush from along road or plow snow from roadway.
      Projections
      • Total Employment (2006): 145,216
      • Total Employment Projected (2016): 158,140
      • Percent Job Growth: 8.90%
      Important Abilities
      • Control Precision
      • Multilimb Coordination
      • Static Strength
    • Job Description
      Lay, repair, and maintain track for standard or narrow-gauge railroad equipment used in regular railroad service or in plant yards, quarries, sand and gravel pits, and mines. Includes ballast cleaning machine operators and road bed tamping machine operators.
      Salary and Wages

      Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX

      • Total Employment: 320
      • Average Annual Salary: $28,390
      • Average Hourly Rate: $13.65
      Projections
      • Total Employment (2006): 14,635
      • Total Employment Projected (2016): 15,334
      • Percent Job Growth: 4.77%
      Important Abilities
      • Problem Sensitivity
      • Arm-Hand Steadiness
      • Manual Dexterity
      • Control Precision
      • Multilimb Coordination
      • Reaction Time
      • Depth Perception
    • Job Description
      Operate a variety of drills--such as rotary, churn, and pneumatic--to tap sub-surface water and salt deposits, to remove core samples during mineral exploration or soil testing, and to facilitate the use of explosives in mining or construction. May use explosives. Includes horizontal and earth boring machine operators.
      Salary and Wages

      Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX

      • Total Employment: 510
      Projections
      • Total Employment (2006): 21,681
      • Total Employment Projected (2016): 23,099
      • Percent Job Growth: 6.54%
      Important Abilities
      • Arm-Hand Steadiness
      • Manual Dexterity
      • Control Precision
      • Multilimb Coordination
      • Reaction Time
    • Job Description
      Operate self-propelled mining machines that rip coal, metal and nonmetal ores, rock, stone, or sand from the face and load it onto conveyors or into shuttle cars in a continuous operation.
      Projections
      • Total Employment (2006): 10,043
      • Total Employment Projected (2016): 10,504
      • Percent Job Growth: 4.58%
      Important Abilities
      • Problem Sensitivity
      • Selective Attention
      • Arm-Hand Steadiness
      • Control Precision
      • Multilimb Coordination
      • Rate Control
      • Reaction Time
      • Depth Perception
      • Hearing Sensitivity
    • Job Description
      Operate machinery--such as longwall shears, plows, and cutting machines--to cut or channel along the face or seams of coal mines, stone quarries, or other mining surfaces to facilitate blasting, separating, or removing minerals or materials from mines or from the earth's surface.
      Projections
      • Total Employment (2006): 7,918
      • Total Employment Projected (2016): 8,218
      • Percent Job Growth: 3.78%
      Important Abilities
      • Problem Sensitivity
      • Arm-Hand Steadiness
      • Control Precision
      • Multilimb Coordination
      • Reaction Time
    • Job Description
      Set up or repair rigging for construction projects, manufacturing plants, logging yards, ships and shipyards, or for the entertainment industry.
      Important Abilities
      • Problem Sensitivity
    • Job Description
      Operate mechanical boom and cable or tower and cable equipment to lift and move materials, machines, or products in many directions.
      Salary and Wages

      Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX

      • Total Employment: 1,850
      • Average Annual Salary: $44,720
      • Average Hourly Rate: $21.50
      Projections
      • Total Employment (2006): 46,393
      • Total Employment Projected (2016): 47,691
      • Percent Job Growth: 2.80%
      Important Abilities
      • Manual Dexterity
      • Control Precision
      • Multilimb Coordination
      • Rate Control
      • Reaction Time
      • Far Vision
      • Depth Perception
    • Job Description
      Operate dredge to remove sand, gravel, or other materials from lakes, rivers, or streams; and to excavate and maintain navigable channels in waterways.
      Projections
      • Total Employment (2006): 2,142
      • Total Employment Projected (2016): 2,285
      • Percent Job Growth: 6.66%
      Important Abilities
      • Control Precision
      • Multilimb Coordination
    • Job Description
      Operate or tend machinery equipped with scoops, shovels, or buckets, to excavate and load loose materials.
      Salary and Wages

      Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX

      • Total Employment: 760
      • Average Annual Salary: $29,520
      • Average Hourly Rate: $14.19
      Projections
      • Total Employment (2006): 80,157
      • Total Employment Projected (2016): 86,818
      • Percent Job Growth: 8.31%
      Important Abilities
      • Spatial Orientation
      • Arm-Hand Steadiness
      • Manual Dexterity
      • Control Precision
      • Multilimb Coordination
      • Response Orientation
      • Rate Control
      • Reaction Time
      • Far Vision
      • Depth Perception
    • Job Description
      Operate or tend hoists or winches to lift and pull loads using power-operated cable equipment.
      Projections
      • Total Employment (2006): 3,017
      • Total Employment Projected (2016): 2,980
      • Percent Job Growth: -1.2%
      Important Abilities
      • Problem Sensitivity
      • Arm-Hand Steadiness
      • Control Precision
      • Reaction Time
      • Depth Perception
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    Awarded Degrees and Program Completion Details
    Construction, Heavy Equipment Operation
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    Male66-
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    By Race
    Non-Resident Alien---
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    Black22-
    Asian---
    Hispanic22-
    White22-
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