Excavation & site work job descriptions
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Leadership 4
Chief Executive Officer
An excavation chief executive officer makes two calls that shape the next few years: which dirt work to chase and how big a fleet to carry.
Chief Operating Officer
An excavation chief operating officer owns how the fleet and crews work on every site: how hard the machines run, how haul roads and cuts are set up, and what operators do before they climb in.
Chief Financial Officer
An excavation chief financial officer keeps a heavy equipment business funded: machine loans and trade-ins, diesel, job costs, and cash owed by builders and developers.
General Manager
An excavation general manager runs both the office and the field: bids, crews, the shop and the books.
Managers 8
Field Supervisor
An excavation field supervisor runs several site work crews across a subdivision or a spread of builder lots.
HR Manager
An excavation HR manager hires the operators, truck drivers, pipe crews and office staff a site work company needs, and keeps their files in order.
Marketing Manager
An excavation marketing manager keeps builders, developers and landowners calling a site work company.
Office Manager
An excavation office manager keeps the money and paper moving behind the crews.
Operations Manager
An excavation operations manager builds tomorrow's plan for every crew, machine and dump truck, from one-day basement digs to weeks of grading on a new subdivision.
Project Manager
An excavation project manager runs big grading and utility contracts, such as a new subdivision's streets, pipes and lots or a commercial pad, from the developer's plans to the last punch item.
Sales Manager
An excavation sales manager heads a small team pricing and signing grading, basement digs and site work for builders, developers and landowners.
Warehouse / Equipment Manager
An excavation equipment manager keeps a fleet of excavators, dozers, loaders, trucks and trench boxes ready to work.
Office and sales 5
Customer Service Representative
An excavation customer service representative answers builders, developers and landowners, books site visits, and tells each caller where their dig or grading job stands.
Dispatcher
An excavation dispatcher sends crews, machines and lowboy moves out each morning so every lot and phase has what the day's work needs.
Bookkeeper
An excavation bookkeeper keeps the ledger for a company that runs on machines, dump trucks and builder lots.
Inventory Specialist
An excavation inventory specialist keeps filters, bucket teeth, cutting edges, hoses, fluids and fuel on hand for the company's excavators, dozers, loaders and dump trucks.
Sales Representative
An excavation sales representative walks builder lots and raw land, works out the digging, grading and clearing each job needs, and turns it into a proposal.
In the field 3
Equipment Operator
A heavy equipment operator at an excavation company runs excavators, dozers, loaders and skid steers to dig foundations, cut and fill grades, and trench for utilities.
Laborer / Helper
An excavation laborer is the ground crew on basement digs, grading jobs and utility trenches.
Lead Equipment Operator
A lead equipment operator is the most skilled operator on an excavation crew.
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