Crain Operator

About the Company

United Infrastructure Group (UIG) is a leader in the transportation construction industry in the southeast with over 100 years of history delivering successful projects. UIG is committed to developing a skilled workforce through recruitment, training, and promotion of construction professionals in a professional family environment.

Benefits

• Highly competitive salaries
• Generous performance bonuses
• Robust subsistence allowances
• Comprehensive health plans (medical, dental, and vision)
• Strong 401k savings and profit-sharing plan with 100% matching contributions
• Significant paid time off
• Life and disability insurance
• Training, education, certification, and qualification assistance

Benefits may vary based on position and length of employment.

Responsibilities

• Operate a crane and relocate crane or materials on construction projects.
• Set customer’s items per senior crane operator’s instructions.
• Adhere to all safety policies, including passing a test for safe operation in a trench.
• Select cables, winches, blocks, wire ropes, pulleys, chains, and grappling devices based on load weight and size.
• Inspect and adjust crane mechanisms or lifting accessories to prevent malfunction or damage.
• Inspect cables or grappling devices for wear and install or replace cables as needed.
• Load or unload bundles from trucks or move containers.
• Attach loads using grappling devices such as loops, wires, ropes, and chains to the crane hook.
• Install attachments including jibs, lattice extensions, auxiliary heads, and pile hammers.
• Clean and inspect machinery or equipment to detect problems.
• Receive directions for hoisting and moving loads to ensure safety, using hand signals, loudspeakers, two-way radios, or telephone.
• Read and interpret lifting capacity charts, daily work schedules, or delivery schedules to determine orders, sequences, or special loading instructions.
• Direct workers engaged in hoisting machinery and equipment onto or into trucks, railroad cars, or other moving devices.
• Maintain a logbook.

Requirements

• Valid CCO Certification for Telescopic Boom Cranes – Fixed Cab (TSS), Swing Cab (TLL), and Lattice Boom Crane (LBC).
• At least 3 years’ experience as a crane operator (preferred).
• Maintain a DOT physical.
• Working knowledge of load charts, hand signals, and state and federal DOT laws.
• Ability to work independently, prioritize daily work assignments, and communicate with all team members.
• Ability to coordinate hand and foot movements based on visual signals and directions.
• Complete knowledge of crane and rigging signals.
• Knowledge of emergency response procedures for mobile crane operations.
• Must follow UIG’s policies and procedures and support its mission.
• Must be at least 18 years of age.
• Able to pass a drug test.
• Legally eligible to work in the U.S.

Additional Requirements for Craftworkers

• Must have own transportation to and from the jobsite every workday (driver’s license required).
• Must provide own hand tools (excluding power tools).
• May be expected to travel where the project requires (multi-state opportunities).