Heavy Equipment Technicians maintain, repair, and overhaul heavy vehicles and industrial equipment, such as:-Internal combustion engines and components, both stationary and mobile.

  • Tracked equipment, commonly called crawler tractors.
  • Ground-engaging equipment and components, including rippers, ditchers, backhoes, trenchers, and similar equipment.
  • Towed earth-moving equipment, commonly called scrapers.
  • Self-propelled earth moving equipment, commonly called motor scrapers.
  • Rubber-tired equipment, commonly called tractors.
  • On-highway and off-highway motor vehicles, commonly called trucks.
  • Towed on-highway and off-highway vehicles, commonly called trailers.

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  • Post Secondary
Post Secondary
  • Heavy Equipment Technology - Contest Description 2019