DEPT OF EMERGENCY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

The Department of Emergency & Military Affairs (DEMA), led by The Adjutant General, provides emergency management and military capabilities to the citizens of Arizona and the nation. The Emergency Management Division consists of three sections—operations, preparedness, and financial administration. Each section works collaboratively across the agency and with external partners to manage emergency responses and reduce the impacts of disasters. Additionally, DEMA is the headquarters for the Arizona National Guard, the primary combat reserve of the United States military. The Arizona Army and Air National Guard provide military forces and equipment to accomplish community, state, and federal missions.

HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATOR

Job Location:

Camp Navajo, Bellemont, AZ

Posting Details:

Salary: UP TO $22.9807 

Grade: 18

Closing Date: March 31, 2026

Job Summary:

The Heavy Equipment Operator (HEO) operates all types of heavy engineering equipment and material handling equipment to include, but not limited to, 75-ton mobile crane, road graders, bulldozers, front end loaders and 10–20-ton dump trucks in support of road maintenance and railroad maintenance operations. May serve as lead HEO on specific projects ensuring workload requirements are completed as scheduled. Supervises a Department of Corrections inmate work crew as required. The Heavy Equipment operator (HEO) performs work within the ammunition storage area (ASA) which will place the individual within the explosives safety quantity distances (ESQD) Arc of a potential Explosion site (PED)

Job Duties:

Responsibilities include:
• Operates assigned vehicles/trailers (above and below 26000#GVWR) Operates heavy equipment and material handling equipment, loads and unloads cinders, asphalt millings and crushed concrete materials from borrow sites to complete road maintenance and repairs. Replaces culvert drainage piping to restore drainage under roadways and railroad tracks. Performs snow removal operations as required.
• Supports 60- and 80-ton locomotive operations as a brakeman/conductor, supports railroad track inspections and maintenance and repair of installation trackage. Provides transport capability for ammunition and explosives, to include large rocket motors, hazardous materials, and inert ammunition components.
• Supervises a Department of Corrections inmate/work crew during road construction or repair activities, maintenance of barbed wire fences, clearing of vegetation from igloos, and the maintenance of railroad track and rail beds.
• Performs preventive maintenance checks and services (PMCS) on assigned equipment. PMCS activities occur prior to use, during, after, and periodically (i.e., daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual, etc.). Perform routine inspections and operator level maintenance on equipment assigned. Turns in equipment to maintenance shop chief for periodic maintenance and services, maintains documentation as required.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities (KSAs):

Knowledge of:
• Application and usage of Federal, state, and local laws, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures governing the use of construction equipment, as well as how to find answers to safely operate assigned equipment, if not already well established.
• Safe use of assigned powered equipment, and basic hand tools.
• Local standard operating procedures (SOP) involving the understanding, operation, maintenance and user level repairs of loaders, graders, bulldozers, CMV's,
• Work trucks, trailers, and associated tools and equipment.
• Capabilities, operating procedures, maintenance and safely requirements for a D-7 and D-8 bulldozer, clamshell bucket, and track- hoe.
• Safe operating procedures for gasoline or diesel-powered engines or construction equipment with wheeled or crawler type traction for such operations as rough grading earth, moving snow removal back filling, ditching, and fine grading.
• Rails specific knowledge of 60- and 80-ton locomotives track inspection and repair methods; brakeman /conductor procedure.
• Basic principles and procedures for operations in and around ammunition storage areas.
• Studying training materials or regulatory guidance. Being capable of retaining information. Being capable of retaining information, displaying retention through various forms of demonstration (i.e., written examinations, verbal feedback, physical demonstrations of required tasks etc.).
• The risk associated with working with