Mining and Construction Operation Training

About Jay

Jay’s career in heavy equipment began when his grandfather tasked him with cleaning out stock tanks on the family ranch using a dozer at age ten.

After spending a few years as a cowboy in Arizona, Jay formally began his heavy equipment career as a laborer and later equipment operator with a local construction company. A quick study, he was soon hired by Caterpillar as a test operator at the world-famous Arizona proving grounds.

At Caterpillar, he got to know Caterpillar dealer instructors from around the US and wanted his own shot at formally training Cat customers. When the opportunity came, and he worked at Wagner Cat in Colorado and Holt Cat in Texas training hundreds of equipment operators and customers as a CDI (certified dealer instructor) and rep.

With his years of training experience and forming industry relationships, executives and mine managers asked Jay to independently train their operators. With enough people from Canada to the Bahamas asking, he took the leap, quit his brilliant job at Caterpillar, and formed his own training company.

Now, he travels the US and abroad to train operators on how to get the most out of their machines. He loves training and watching the people he works with improve at work and on a personal level. When he’s not on the road training, he’s a focused husband and father at home in Texas. Family is everything to Jay and he knows none of this would be possible without their love and support.