Heavy Equipment
Operator SCHOOL
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Working as a heavy equipment operator is a rewarding and high-paying career. Your future starts at Interior Heavy Equipment School.
As a respected leader in our industry, our mission is to provide our students with superior hands-on equipment training and outstanding technical knowledge, motivation, and commitment. Our students will be prepared for entry level employment as Heavy Equipment Operators.
At IHE, safety is our fundamental belief that shapes our company’s culture and philosophy. We emphasize it at every stage of the training that we provide. As such, safety has become our primary focus in interactions with our students, employees, partners, and visitors alike, and has become the hallmark of our industry recognized training programs, all resulting in one thing: Safe and Work-Ready Graduates!
A day at IHE is treated like a day at work. Students arrive for their daily shift and report to a safety toolbox meeting. Starting day one, students are hands-on in their own machine (5-hrs daily) as they learn the basics of work-based training on excavators, dozers, articulated rock trucks, graders, wheel loaders, and rubber-tire backhoes including pre and post-operation maintenance checks.
Tasks include rock-wall building, straight trenching, road activation and deactivation, stockpiling, backfilling, slope trenching, leveling, laser-level use, and many more depending on time of year and the students’ own ability. Studying theory topics like surveying, slopes, soil, maintenance, resume building & much more is also accomplished online and in the field.
Safety is the backbone of our culture and philosophy. We emphasize it at every stage of the training. Safety is our primary focus with our students, employees, partners, and visitors alike. It is the hallmark of our industry recognized training programs, all resulting in one thing:
IHE = Providing a safe and skilled workforce since 2005
If there is one consistency in today’s commercial world, it is expansion. The construction and natural resources industries ebb and flow but never stop. The official job classification and NOC code from the Government of Canada is:
7521 – Heavy equipment operators (except crane)
Heavy equipment operators operate heavy equipment used in the construction and maintenance of roads, bridges, airports, gas and oil pipelines, tunnels, buildings and other structures; in surface mining and quarrying activities; and in material handling work. They are employed by construction companies, heavy equipment contractors, public works departments and pipeline, logging, cargo-handling and other companies.
Corporate Head Office
#22 – 11852 HWY 97 North
Lake Country, BC V4V 1E3
Telephone: 250-766-3853
Toll Free: 1-866-399-3853
Toll Free Fax: 1-877-347-6384
IHE would like to acknowledge that our corporate offices, as well as our training sites are located on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan, Treaty 6 and Treaty 7 people of Canada.
