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Mobile Crane Operator ESSENTIAL SKILLS
Fact Sheet
Essential skills are skills that help you to perform the tasks required by your trade and other activities of daily life. They provide the foundation for learning other skills, and made it easier for you to adapt to workplace change. Different trades can require different Essential Skills. The Fact Sheet lists the reading, writing, calculating, thinking and interacting skills that are used in a particular trade. Many of these are needed during your apprenticeship, especially during in-school technical training. If you want to see whether you have the necessary Essential Skills to do well in in-school technical training technical training, you can complete the Self-Assessment Checklist and the Essential Skills Exercises for a particular trade. Contact the Apprenticeship Branch at (204) 945-3337 or 1-877-978-7233 (Toll Free) for more information.
Reading Text
Find information in manuals
Read laws, regulations and policies
Read log books
Find information on manufacturer’s and engineer’s specification sheets
Read written instructions
Use of Documents
Interpret scale drawings and blueprints
Find information in charts and graphs (i.e. load sheets)
Read weigh bills and packing slips
Read numbers on scales and gauges
Read maps
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Writing
Write incident reports
Write memos
Make log book / record book entries
Fill in forms
Write notes
Math
Perform basic mathematical operations (calculating materials, bills, costs, etc)
Estimate time, materials, and labour as a job progresses Calculate using whole numbers, fractions, percents, decimals and averages
Measure precisely with tools and devices
Calculate with calculators
Calculate load weights
Calculate using load charts
Work with rigging formulas
Measure radius and circumference
Calculate dimensions weight of an object
Calculate area, volume and perimeter of an object
Calculate angles
Estimate distances
Oral Communication
Speak with and listen to jobsite personnel (other trades persons, supervisors, owners, engineers, inspectors)
Describe workplace situations
Give verbal instructions
Give verbal reports
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Speak with clients
Teach apprentices
Participate in meetings
Describe critical safety issues
Thinking
Make decisions
Solve problems
Apply learning from site to site
Memorize facts and details
Apply basic physics and science concepts
Computer Use
Use computer-controlled diagnostic equipment
Use computerized maintenance record keeping systems
Input from data vibration analysis test equipment
Use internet browsers
Use word processors
Use databases
Use e-mail
In order to do well in technical training, Mobile Crane Operator apprentices should also be able to…
Study and Test-Taking
Take notes during a class
Read textbooks and learning materials
Highlight important information in notes, books or other learning materials
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Ask questions of the instructor and other students
Participate in small group discussions
Get information from demonstrations
Study for tests
Write multiple-choice tests
Manage time and assignments
For Information contact these Apprenticeship offices or call Toll-free from Rural Manitoba 1-877-978-7233 Winnipeg 1010-401 York Avenue, R3C 0P8 204-945-3337 - Fax 204-948-2346
The Pas 305 - 4th Street West , R9A 1M4 Box 2550, 204-627-8290 - Fax 204-627-8137
Brandon 102, 340-9th Street, R7A 6C2 204-726-6365 - Fax 204-726-6912
Thompson 118 – 3 Station Road R8N 0N3 204-677-6346 - Fax 204-677-6689
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