Classification: 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

 Red Seal trade

A Hoisting Engineer — Mobile Crane Operator 2 maintains and operates hydraulically controlled mobile cranes capable of lifting, moving, positioning and placing materials and equipment weighing more than 16,000 pounds but no more than 30,000 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 2:

• 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
• performs maintenance on cranes

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

 Red Seal trade