Trace Saunders

• Operated a range of heavy equipment on regular basis with advanced skill, in team settings.
• Operate Excavators, Dozers and Rock Trucks to transport and move materials, while practicing safety measures.
• Trained in diverse pieces of equipment and useful attachments.
• I have had the opportunity of growing up into a third generation family business, working in civil earthworks.
• Growing up in a Family Business, I had the opportunity to be able to operate equipment since the age of four, and always be around the equipment, as well as jobsites.
• Removed topsoil, vegetation, and rocks to grade earth to specifications.

After school hours, I would get rides/taxi cab to work. I gained experience operating equipment when I could. Getting as much knowledge from others as possible.

-Processed cattle

-Shoveling bunks out

-Operating tractor

-Loading rock boxes with excavator/gravel trucks

-Pushing clay out in cattle pens with dozer

Then I moved on to Al Saunders Contracting, where I would continue to work in between school hours and work full-time in the summer.