Horizontal Directional Drill (HDD) Operators

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Alexandria
Entry level
Utilities
The Role
The role involves operating Horizontal Directional Drills, using vacuum excavation units, and maintaining job sites. Candidates will be responsible for setting up job sites, interpreting plans, ensuring safety, and reporting daily productivity. Previous experience with Vermeer drill rigs and a valid HR driver's license are required.
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Job Posting End DateMarch 19, 2025Job LocationNSW AlexandriaJob Description

  • Tier 1 Construction & Utilities contractor

  • Great company culture, permanent roles in NSW

  • Career growth opportunities

For over 90 years, Fulton Hogan has been delivering high-quality infrastructure to improve the lives of people every day. Our 10,000+ team works in a range of environments, creating, connecting, and caring for communities across Australia and New Zealand.

What’s on offer?

We are looking to build on our core team with the addition of experienced Directional Drill Operators and Trackers to work on key projects within our Fulton Hogan Trenchless Technologies business. The successful candidate will be heavily involved in works across multiple projects, with the potential for regional work. 

In this role you'll be responsible for:

  • Operation of Horizontal Directional Drills

  • Experience using vacuum excavation units and excavators also beneficial

  • Set up of job sites in accordance with established safety and environmental requirements

  • Interpreting BYDA plans and locating underground assets before works commence

  • Completing JSEAs and Pre-Start forms

  • Maintenance of site vehicles and plant to ensure they are kept clean and in safe working order

  • Reporting day to day productivity and issues through to engineers and supervisors

How you'll connect to the role:

  • HR drivers licence (manual preferred)

  • Experience operating Vermeer drill rigs 10x15, 20x22, 23x30, and up to 60,000lbs

  • Experienced in using Digi Track locating systems (F5 Falcon +)

  • A good understanding of drill fluid requirements for different ground conditions

  • Experience in reaming / opening holes in various ground conditions

  • Ambitious and driven personality

  • Alignment with our values of Respect, Energy & Effort, Attitude & Leadership

  • Adopting and driving Fulton Hogan’s Living Safely Culture.

Want to be rewarded for the good work you do? Apply now to learn more about the applicable hourly rate and allowances.

Looking for a company that places people at the heart of everything? Our Living Safely culture ensures that we care for ourselves, each other and the communities that we work in.

Keen to progress your career? We invest in our people’s career development and provide pathways in the form of apprenticeships, traineeships, or certificate(s) opportunities. If additional tickets and licenses are required, we can help with that too.

Never worked in our industry before? We open new doors for people with transferable skills and experiences, helping them to thrive in the world of infrastructure construction. Where applicable, we provide training and support to help you succeed in the role.

Looking to enhance your wellbeing? We offer benefits, including corporate health and fitness programs, health insurance discounts, personal banking support, a range of retailer discounts, and access to our Employee Assistance Program (including your immediate family).

Want to help us better the communities we live and work in? Our purpose of creating, connecting, and caring for communities is more than a saying to us – it’s a way of thinking, working, and living because we're locals too, and seek to give back in ways that strengthen and build resilient communities. 

Our people share the same set of values that keep us REAL. Respect, Energy and Effort, Attitude and Leadership are what we stand for at Fulton Hogan and encourage us to foster a diverse and inclusive culture where we listen to, care for, celebrate, and respect everyone.

If our REAL values resonate with you, please submit an application for the position.

If you’re not sure that you meet 100% of the selection criteria, that’s okay, we would still like to hear from you and potentially discuss how your skills could be utilised at Fulton Hogan.

We celebrate and embrace diversity across our business and are committed to equal employment opportunities.

We believe in the value that diversity brings to our team and people who share our REAL values are encouraged to apply

Top Skills

Digi Track Locating Systems
Excavators
Horizontal Directional Drills
Vacuum Excavation Units
The Company
Melbourne, , Victoria
5,870 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1933

What We Do

Fulton Hogan has 90 years experience in the transport, water, energy, mining and land development infrastructure sector in New Zealand, Australia and the South Pacific.

We create communities from the ground up, starting with our own network of quarries, complemented by our asphalt, emulsion and precast plants and we pride ourselves on being a family company – one which cares about communities and the people in them, especially our customers, suppliers and our people.

Our 10,000+ strong team helps to create, connect, and care for communities; building the roads, ports, airports, infrastructure and property which bring people together

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