Crane Operator

Reporting Relationship: To be determined.

Supervisory Responsibilities: There are no supervisory responsibilities for this position at this time.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
• Use effective verbal and written communication skills. Add, subtract, multiply and divide whole numbers and fractions.
• Plan and lay-out for crane operators work.
• Read and understand plans, specifications, operators’ manuals, safety manuals, and load capacity charts. Visualize two dimensional drawings in three dimensions. Fill out OSHA approved Mobile Crane Periodic Safety Inspection Record daily.
• Examine/inspect field conditions and identify problems and cost saving measures that arise or that may be encountered. Take corrective actions as needed.
• Observe functioning of equipment or systems to determine hazards and need for adjustments, repair or replacement.
• Move in and around confined and cluttered places, and uneven areas. Full range of motion and flexibility.
• Operators must be thoroughly familiar with crane control functions. Operate crane to lift and move materials and other objects; plan all lifts; proper use of capacity charts; perform daily equipment inspection; respond accordingly to both hand and verbal commands; observe the travel of all loads and take appropriate action to avoid injury to personnel or damage to property; listen to warning alarms and respond accordingly; read boom angle and drum rotation indicators.
• Identify safety hazards you or other employees may be subject to and take all necessary corrective action to eliminate or minimize hazards.
• Understand and respond appropriately to all safety hazards and warning devices (i.e. back-up alarms, smell of smoke, different colored warning tags, warning sirens).
• Produce quality work, meeting requirements of plans, specifications and industry standards.
• Be motivated and work productively.
• Document maintenance in appropriate logs on assigned equipment. Perform all required inspections of equipment and document results in the appropriate log.
• Perform all other job-related duties as requested by supervisor.
• Perform all other actions necessary to accomplish the foregoing essential job functions.
• Coordinate work with other crafts and co-workers on the job.
• Monitors standard operational and working practices and supervises oneself and other workers to ensure compliance with the Company’s safety policies and procedures and OSHA industry standards.
• Attend the Company’s safety meetings and mandatory training classes to assist in the training of other employees.
• Strives to improve skills continuously.
• Acts in a way that promotes the Company in the marketplace.
• Able to push, pull and lift up to 75lbs.
• Develops and maintains good relations with outside vendors that benefit the Company.
• All other duties that may be assigned.

Experience & Qualifications:
• Minimum of three years of experience in operating a crane.
• High School graduate or equivalent.
• Class A CDL
• NCCCO Certification