Jobs With Heavy Equipment

In the rush to obtain graduate and undergraduate degrees, some students may be overlooking the opportunities available in traditional skills and trades. Jobs of this sort can deliver good income, secure careers, and the satisfaction of knowing that you have completed an important job. If you would like to explore these options, you might find a good future as a Crane Operator.

Fortunately, the National Association of Heavy Equipment Training Schools (NAHETS) exists to monitor and promote training for jobs in both the operation of cranes and heavy equipment throughout the United States. The safety of all workers at a jobsite is too important to allow for poor training.

NAHETS approves schools only if they meet strict standards in these areas: heavy-equipment safety, career resource centers, job-placement assistance, employer-development programs, faculty development, project orientation, and heavy-equipment operations. Unless a school or training program meets acceptable standards in these categories, it will not receive the approval of NAHETS.

NAHETS advises all students who wish to obtain training in crane or heavy-equipment operation to look for schools or training programs that provide all the following to all students: dedicated heavy-equipment training (no other business operated from the school), sufficient facilities, a large training area, a full-time job-placement director, a career resource center, published standards, and membership in NAHETS.

Unless a training program meets these standards, think again before you invest in that program.