At Greely Sand & Gravel, we are all about TEAMWORK. There are many different people with specialized skillsets who come together to make our business work each and every day. From sales staff to accountants, from dispatchers to dump truck drivers, we rely on each of our staff to bring their expertise to the table in order to provide the best possible customer experience.
In today’s blog, we want to highlight our equipment operators!
This may not be a role that many of our customers are familiar with, but they play a critical part in getting our products to your door. We have loader operators at our three landscape depots who are kept busy each day moving, loading, and stocking each of our many landscaping products. We also have loader operators and excavator operators in our manufacturing pit who blend and screen sand, soil, and custom mix products.
All of our equipment operators are highly trained and certified to operate heavy equipment. These are some impressive machines. The sheer size and weight make them tricky to operate. It is critical that the operators work in collaboration with our dump truck drivers and pick up customers in order to safely load each vehicle with minimal spillage and maximum safety. In addition to specialized driving skills, our loader operators must have excellent communication skills and heightened awareness of their surroundings in order to do their job well.
Our loader and excavator operators arrive on site at our depots and manufacturing pit bright and early. Before any trucks are loaded for delivery, or pick up customers arrive, the loader operators are busy cleaning up the yards and pit, and ensuring that their equipment is in tiptop shape for the day. In order to prevent any mixing of products, loader operators use different buckets for different products and regularly clean the buckets as well.
During the day, our dump trucks complete many commercial and residential delivery orders. All of this product must be loaded onto the various trucks by our loader operators. They also work hard to fill all our Greely Gardening Bags for delivery to our customers across the Ottawa region.
If you have a truck or trailer and want to come to one of our depots to pick up your product(s), you will meet our loader operators and witness the amazing work they do firsthand. It takes a lot of knowledge and skill to fill vehicles with the right amount of the right product in a way that is clean AND safe.
Still curious about the important role that our equipment operators play at Greely Sand & Gravel every day? Watch the video below to meet some of our team and hear their stories firsthand.