Hoisting Engineer
Hoisting Engineer — Mobile Crane Operator 1
Trade code:
339A
Compulsory
A Hoisting Engineer — Mobile Crane Operator 1 maintains and operates conventional lattice and telescopic boom mobile cranes that can lift, move, position and place materials and equipment weighing more than 16,000 pounds, such as concrete, steel, gravel and other construction supplies and machinery at construction and industrial sites, ports, factories, warehouses, dockyards or rail yards. Specifically, a Hoisting Engineer — Mobile Crane Operator 1:
performs pre‐operational inspections
prepares and transports cranes
assembles and dismantles cranes
plans crane ‘lifts’ including calculating crane capacity and determining load weights
sets up, positions and stabilizes the crane before the ‘lift’
performs various rigging procedures
