Excavator Licence Course

Excavators are machines that are commonly used on building, civil construction and landfill sites. Operation of an excavator requires a certificate of competency. In this excavator course, you will learn the skills needed to conduct excavator operations.

Over the course of your excavator training, you’ll learn a number of valuable and imperative skills needed for the secure and proficient handling of excavators. This includes planning and preparing; conducting machine pre-operational checks; operating the machine; lifting, carrying and placing materials; selecting, removing and fitting attachments; relocating the machine; carrying out machine operator maintenance and cleaning up. Our courses are specially designed to teach students to work safely and efficiently so that they can succeed throughout their career.

This course will teach you the skills to:

• Operate the excavator and use attachments
• Understand excavator types and characteristics
• Understand excavator capabilities and limitations
• Calculate safe working loads
• Interpret drawings and sketches
• Apply site and equipment safety requirements
• Carry out basic earthworks calculation