Overview
Languages
English
Education
- No degree, certificate or diploma
Experience
Experience an asset
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Load, unload and transport construction materials
- Operate mobile and tower cranes to lift, move, position or place equipment and materials
- Clean and lubricate cranes
- Erect and dismantle concrete forms, scaffolding, ramps, catwalks shoring and barricades
- Instruct apprentices
- Mix, pour and spread materials
- Operate cranes equipped with dredging attachments to dredge waterways and other areas
- Assist heavy equipment operators
- Operate gantry cranes to load and unload ship cargo at port side
- Assist in drilling and blasting rock on construction sites
- Assist in framing houses, erecting walls and building roofs
- Operate cranes mounted on boats or barges to lift, move and place equipment and materials
- Assist in demolishing buildings
- Clean and pile salvaged materials
- Operate dragline cranes to expose coal seams and ore deposits at open pit mines
- Perform pre-operational inspection, and calculate crane capacities and weight to prepare for rigging and hoisting
- Perform routine maintenance work
- Clean up chemical spills and other contaminants
- Remove rubble and other debris at construction sites
- Tend or feed machines or equipment used in construction
- Read and interpret blueprints