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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