NCCER Heavy Equipment Operations Level 2

Issued by NCCER

This individual has demonstrated the ability to: • Describe rough-terrain forklift components • Perform rough-terrain forklift startup, warm-up, and shutdown • Safely operate rough-terrain forklifts • Describe types of on-road dump trucks • Perform startup, warm-up, and shutdown of on-road dump trucks • Safely operate on-road dump trucks • Identify the drawings in a set of plans • Interpret drawing symbols and elements • Determine excavation requirements from drawings …see more skills below.

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Earning Criteria

…skills continued… • Use math formulas to estimate the volume and weight of an excavation • Identify site grading safety practices • Explain how grades are set • Describe soil characteristics and factors that affect soil excavation • Identify skid steer components • Perform skid steer startup, warm-up and shutdown • Demonstrate basic skid steer maneuvers • Identify the components of loaders and scrapers • Start up, warm-up, and shut down loaders and scrapers • Safely operate loaders and scrapers
Completed training through an NCCER Accredited training organization. Successfully demonstrated to an NCCER-certified instructor and/or evaluator the performance task requirements for this level. Successfully completed the course modules and passed the knowledge based examinations.