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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.
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| 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 - $38,830
- Crane and Tower Operators - $40,860
- Dredge Operators - $33,450
- Extraction Workers, All Other
- Highway Maintenance Workers - $30,950
- Hoist and Winch Operators - $36,440
- Mine Cutting and Channeling Machine Operators - $37,680
- Mining Machine Operators, All Other
- Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators - $33,140
- Pile-Driver Operators - $50,490
- Rail-Track Laying and Maintenance Equipment Operators - $39,120
- Riggers - $37,790
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