Train to become a Heavy Equipment Operator in the Fast-Growing Construction Field
Construction is the largest service industry in the United States, 
and it is growing fast, with more roads, houses, apartments, and office buildings being built every day – and plenty more on the drawing boards. Contractors and construction firms have a constant need for qualified heavy-equipment operators, to help build all these highways and structures. Heavy equipment operators and small earth-moving contractors also work in the utilities industry, including telephone, electric, gas, and water companies.
There is no more important occupation in the United States than the heavy equipment operator. Without these people, we would have very limited roads, dams, bridges, housing, flood control, and very little mining, land clearing, conservation, landscaping, reclamation, land filling, logging, or pipelines.
National Training, Inc.’s Heavy Equipment Operator School will train you on four types of heavy equipment, qualifying you for a great job.
The opportunities in this field are excellent for properly trained individuals. Demand for qualified heavy equipment operators shows strong, consistent growth. For qualified operators, this means job security, diverse employment opportunities, great benefits, retirement plans and steady compensation.
RESIDENT TRAINING HOURS BREAKDOWN 4 WEEKS (TOTAL 208 HOURS)
Classroom Lessons and Descriptions
| Orientation | 2 |
| Introduction to Earthmoving | 3.5 |
| Loaders | 6 |
| Backhoes | 8 |
| Dozers | 8 |
| Excavators | 8 |
| Heavy Equipment Safety | 7.5 |
| Grades, Part One | 10 |
| Site Work | 14 |
| Job Placement Assistance | 4 |
| Class Graduation and Exit Interview | 1 |
| Total Classroom Theory | 72 |
| HANDS ON EQUIPMENT PROJECTS AND EXCERCISES Equipment Projects will utilize bulldozers, loaders, backhoes, and excavators. | |
| Loaders – Performance Tasks | 18 |
| Backhoes – Performance Tasks | 34 |
| Dozers – Performance Tasks | 34 |
| Excavators – Performance Tasks | 34 |
| Heavy Equipment Safety – Performance Tasks | 2 |
| Grades, Part One – Performance Tasks | 6 |
| Site Work – Performance Tasks | 8 |
| Total hands on equipment projects and exercises | 136 |
| TOTAL TRAINING HOURS | 208 |
Complete details of this course are contained in our Heavy Now Program Catalog. You can download a PDF version of it by clicking here.
HEAVY EQUIPMENT CLASS SCHEDULE:
January 4,2021 January 29,2021
February 01,2021 February 26,2021
March 01,2021 March 26,2021
March 29,2021 April 23, 2021
April 26,2021 May 21,2021
May 24,2021 June 18,2021
June 21,2021 June 16,2021
July 19,2021 August 13,2021
August 16,2021 September 10,2021
September 13,2021 October 8,2021
October 11,2021 November 5,2021
November 8,2021 December 3,2021
November 29,2021 December 24,2021
