Make Launching a New Career Your 2026 New Year’s Resolution!
DEADLINE TO REGISTER: NOVEMBER 28, 2025
It’s your key to a career where you’re in the driver’s seat of powerful machinery while equipping you with the skills and certifications needed to excel in construction, mining, and more!
Besides essential operational techniques and safety protocols, you’ll gain proficiency in excavator operation, bulldozer operation, loader operation, grader operation and more. And you’ll lean site preparation and understand how to prepare a job site, move earthen grade surfaces.
Student Orientation
December 10, 2025
CORE IV starts on January 5, 2026
Alcorn State University, Natchez Campus
15 Campus Drive, Natchez, MS 39120
💵 Entry-level heavy equipment operators can earn an average of $46,718 a year! Source: ZipRecruiter
For more information or questions, contact Lakitsha Rogers-Davis, Workforce Development Program Coordinator at 601-443-3066 or lrogers@natchez.ms.us.
Special thanks to our program partners:
Delta Regional Authority • The City of Natchez • Adams County Board of Supervisors • Natchez, Inc. • Natchez Adams School District • Build Mississippi • Alcorn State University • Accelerate MS • Central Mississippi Planning & Development District • Copiah-Lincoln Community College
This project is being supported, in whole or in part, by federal award number DRA23 DWMPS-23013, awarded to the City of Natchez by the Delta Regional Authority and with funding provided by the Bi-Partisan Infrastructure Law.