Data Center Heavy Equipment Operator Jobs
Equipment operators move earth and material on campuses that can span hundreds of acres of active construction.
59 open roles
13 hiring companies · 19 active cities · 22 roles with pay listed
Current hiring snapshot
Companies hiring now
- Intel (10)
- Samsung Austin Semiconductor (8)
- Analog Devices, Inc. (7)
- Samsung Austin Semiconductor, LLC (6)
- Wolfspeed (6)
- GlobalFoundries (5)
- Micron Technology, Inc. (5)
- Micron Technology (4)
Active cities
- Austin, Texas (10)
- Phoenix, Arizona (7)
- Marcy, New York (6)
- Manassas, Virginia (5)
- Boise, Idaho (4)
- Essex Junction, Vermont (4)
- Taylor, Texas (4)
- Beaverton, Oregon (3)
Experience signals in postings
Entry or apprentice: 2 · Experienced or lead: 9 · Not specified: 48
Pay shown in current listings
- $18–$99,770 / hr (17 listings)
- $60,450–$245,000 / yr (5 listings)
Current job details
- Surface Prep - Principal Technician Equipment Engineering
- Senior Equipment Engineering Technician (Days and Nights)
- Equipment Maintenance Technician (C-Shift Days)
- Equipment Technician 2, Metrology (Days)
- Equipment Technician 3, Diffusion & Wet Sink (Nights)
- CMP Equipment Maintenance Technician - Night Shift
- Thin Films Equipment Technician Back End Nights
- Thin Films Equipment Technician Front End Nights
- Equipment Technician -CMP - RFAB
- Sr Thin Films Equipment Technician
- Semiconductor Equipment Maintenance Technician
- Equipment Maintenance Technician
- Implant Equipment Technician - Days
- Experienced Equipment Technician
- Cleans Equipment Technician - Days
- Equipment Technician - Test Technology (Day & Night Shift)
- Experienced Diffusion Equipment Technician
- CVD Equipment Technician
- Manufacturing Equipment Technician (MTE) - Intel
- Manufacturing Equipment Technician (MTE) - Front End Nights Shift - Shift 4
Heavy Equipment Operator work on data center projects
Before any steel goes up, data center campuses require massive sitework: clearing and grading hundreds of acres, cutting building pads, trenching for duct banks and utilities, and building the roads that keep a multi-year project moving. Heavy equipment operators run dozers, excavators, scrapers, loaders, and compactors through every phase — and on campuses with rolling construction, sitework for the next building often starts while the last one is still being fitted out.
GPS or machine-control experience (such as Trimble or Topcon) and finish-grading skills are relevant because data hall pads and duct-bank grades run to tight tolerances. Utility trenching around energized duct banks also rewards operators who dig cleanly and follow spotter protocols.
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