Operating Engineers operate bulldozers, cranes, excavators, and any type of motorized equipment used on construction sites. In most cases, if it can push, pull, pump, or lift material, rolls on tires or crawls on tracks like a tank, it falls under the jurisdiction of the I.U.O.E.

Operating engineers work in a variety of job classifications in highway and building construction, mining, tollways, tunnels, slag, landscaping, power plants, refineries, railroads, quarries, plants that produce rock, sand and gravel, logging, and utility work such as gas, water, and sewer excavation. 

Members are on major infrastructure projects including:

• 1-69 (new interstate from Evansville to Indianapolis)

• 641 bypass (new construction in Vigo County)

• Margaret Avenue widening project (Terre Haute)

• Wastewater Treatment Plant (Terre Haute)

• Combined sewer overflow upgrades (Clinton)

• Edwardsport Powerhouse

• Merom Powerhouse

Local 841 represents 2,347 active members in 17 counties in west central Indiana, and 19 counties in east central Illinois.

Members utilize a referral hall, with the main office in Terre Haute and branch offices located in Oakwood, IL, and Vincennes, IN.
 

Benefits include group health insurance including HRA
and prescription drug plan, pension plans, annuity fund, and
scholarships.