The Heavy Equipment Training Program will prepare students for professional construction work as Heavy Equipment Operators. Participants receive instruction in the classroom and gain hands-on practical experience, following the National Center for Construction Education & Research (NCCER) core curriculum. Each class will ensuring personal attention and plenty of time with each piece of heavy construction equipment. Because this is a rigorous, full-time course, we recommend that participants devote their full schedule to the training. On-site courses are held 10 hours per day, for 10 consecutive days for a total of 100 hours of quality instruction - preparing ADA graduates as entry-level heavy equipment operators. The first few days of training will consist of classroom instruction, where students will be taught basic engineering concepts, equipment familiarization, workplace safety, applied mathematics, project-layout and basic surveying, including the proper use of levels, transits, chain and rod, plumb bobs, and hand-sight levels. Students will be spent time in the field developing the skills needed to operate heavy machinery safely and efficiently – stressing proper operating techniques, and preventative maintenance. In the field training will consist of with hands-on supervised instruction in coordinated excavation team operations. This is where each student’s individual skills gained in classroom will come together in project-based crew tasks assigned at the appropriate level for the students as they progress. This course prepares graduates for work in heavy construction, surface mining, forestry, industrial, recycling industries. Classroom and Hands-on practice is provided for the operation of each major type of equipment. This way, each student receives exposure to all the machinery they are likely to experience in the field. ADA is registered as an authorized program with the Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education (ACPE). ADA proudly provides the necessary coaching and examinations to ensure graduates to their certificate during this course. The NCCER Core Curriculum, and Heavy Equipment Operator Levels 1, 2, and 3 are covered in this high intensity training course.