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A Hoisting Engineer — Tower Crane Operator maintains and operates tower cranes to lift, move, position and place materials and equipment, working in construction, surface mining, shipbuilding, offshore drilling rigs and railway settings. Specifically, a Hoisting Engineer — Tower Crane Operator:

• performs pre‐operational inspections

• plans crane ‘lifts’ including calculating crane capacity and determining load weight

• performs rigging

• participates in setting up, dismantling and jacking cranes

• performs regular inspections, minor repairs and maintenance