- Education : Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- Experience : 1 year to less than 2 years
- or equivalent experience
Work site environment
- Outdoors
- At heights
Work setting
- Urban area
- High-rise building construction sites
- Rural area
Tasks
- Operate mobile and tower cranes to lift, move, position or place equipment and materials
- Clean and lubricate cranes
- Operate pile driving cranes to drive pilings into earth to provide support for buildings and other structures
- Instruct apprentices
- Operate cranes equipped with dredging attachments to dredge waterways and other areas
- Assemble tower cranes on site
- Operate gantry cranes to load and unload ship cargo at port side
- Operate locomotive cranes to move objects and materials at railway yards
- Operate bridge or overhead cranes to lift, move and place plant machinery and materials
- Operate offshore oil rig cranes to unload and reload supply vessels
- Operate cranes mounted on boats or barges to lift, move and place equipment and materials
- Operate dragline cranes to expose coal seams and ore deposits at open pit mines
- Perform routine maintenance work
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
Tower Crane Operator Trade Certification
Type of cranes
Tower crane, fixed or limited mobility
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Work under pressure
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Sitting
Personal suitability
- Accurate
- Dependability
- Flexibility
- Team player
- Work Term : Permanent
- Work Language : English
- Hours : 40 hours per week
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