Team members at RDO demonstrate service as a core value, and that’s more evident than ever during the week when U.S. citizens celebrate Veterans Day. In this spirit, RDO stands proud alongside our valued partners—John Deere, Montana Governor Greg Gianforte, Teleo and Knife River Corporation—to announce participation in a pilot program to create accessible jobs for those who have given our country so much.
This program will provide accessible careers where disabled veterans can complete job site tasks with heavy equipment from a safe and centralized remote command center. The program will employ disabled veterans at the Knife River gravel pit in Belgrade, Montana. During a recent onsite demonstration, Governor Gianforte used Teleo technology to remotely operate a John Deere loader to move gravel while seated at a command center near the work site.
“Technology can create opportunities for our veterans,” Department of Labor & Industry (DLI) Commissioner Sarah Swanson said in a Heavy Equipment Guide article. “With Governor Gianforte's support and the public-private partnership with Knife River and RDO Equipment Co., we are paving the way for veterans with physical limitations.”
RDO’s participation has been championed by Senior Vice President of Field Technology and Innovation Adam Gilbertson, who, in 2007, returned from a grueling 16-month deployment in Iraq. Some of Adam’s brothers-in-arms made the ultimate sacrifice, and many more returned home with life-altering injuries, making standard careers challenging or impossible.
Watch this video to hear more from Gilbertson and other stakeholders of this program.
It is in the honor of these and wounded heroes everywhere that Knife River now seeks two veterans with disabilities to serve as leaders in the pilot program in Bozeman, Montana, helping us learn how to scale this technology to others around Montana and the country.
To learn more about the program and submit an application, visit jobs.kniferiver.com.
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