该小组履行以下部分或全部职责：

• 操作移动式起重机和塔式起重机以提升、移动、定位或放置设备和材料
• 进行操作前检查，并计算起重机的容量和重量，为索具和吊装做准备
• 操作打桩起重机将桩打入地下，为建筑物和其他结构提供支撑
• 操作配备疏浚附件的起重机疏通水道和其他区域
• 操作龙门起重机在左舷装卸船舶货物
• 操作机车起重机在铁路站场移动物体和材料
• 操作桥式或桥式起重机以提升、移动和放置工厂机械和材料
• 操作海上石油钻井平台起重机卸载和重新装载供应船
• 操作安装在船或驳船上的起重机来提升、移动和放置设备和材料
• 操作拉铲起重机以暴露露天矿的煤层和矿床
• 可在现场组装塔式起重机
• 执行日常维护工作，例如清洁和润滑起重机。

• 通常需要完成中学学业。
• 通常需要完成一到三年的起重机操作学徒计划或行业课程。
• 新斯科舍省、新不伦瑞克省、魁北克省、安大略省、马尼托巴省、阿尔伯塔省和不列颠哥伦比亚省的移动式起重机操作员贸易认证对于特定类型的起重机是强制性的，所有其他省份和西北地区都提供，但自愿性。
• 塔式起重机操作员行业认证在纽芬兰和拉布拉多、新斯科舍、魁北克、安大略、马尼托巴、艾伯塔和不列颠哥伦比亚是强制性的，在爱德华王子岛是自愿的。
• 在魁北克、安大略、曼尼托巴、阿尔伯塔和不列颠哥伦比亚省，对于特定类型的起重机，起重机操作员行业认证是强制性的，在新不伦瑞克省、萨斯喀彻温省、西北地区和努纳武特地区是自愿的。
• 移动式起重机操作员可能需要获得省级执照才能在公共道路上驾驶移动式起重机。
• 一些雇主可能需要起重机操作员的内部公司认证。
• 成功完成省际红印章考试后，合格的移动式起重机和塔式起重机操作员也可以获得红印章背书。

• 随着经验的积累，可能晋升到主管职位。
• 红印章背书允许跨省流动。

• 重型设备操作员（73400）
• 地下生产开发矿工（83100）
• 承包商和主管、重型设备操作人员 ( 72021)

This group performs some or all of the following duties:

• Operate mobile and tower cranes to lift, move, position or place equipment and materials
• Perform pre-operational inspection, and calculate crane capacities and weight to prepare for rigging and hoisting
• Operate pile driving cranes to drive pilings into earth to provide support for buildings and other structures
• Operate cranes equipped with dredging attachments to dredge waterways and other areas
• Operate gantry cranes to load and unload ship cargo at port side
• Operate locomotive cranes to move objects and materials at railway yards
• Operate bridge or overhead cranes to lift, move and place plant machinery and materials
• Operate offshore oil rig cranes to unload and reload supply vessels
• Operate cranes mounted on boats or barges to lift, move and place equipment and materials
• Operate dragline cranes to expose coal seams and ore deposits at open pit mines
• May assemble tower cranes on site
• Perform routine maintenance work such as cleaning and lubricating cranes.

• Completion of secondary school is usually required.
• Completion of a one- to three-year apprenticeship program or industry courses in crane operating are usually required.
• Mobile crane operator trade certification, for specified types of cranes, is compulsory in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia and available, but voluntary, in all other provinces and the Northwest Territories.
• Tower crane operator trade certification is compulsory in Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia and available, but voluntary, in Prince Edward Island.
• Hoist operator trade certification, for specified types of cranes, is compulsory in Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia and is available, but voluntary, in New Brunswick, Saskatchewan, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
• Mobile crane operators may require a provincial licence to drive mobile cranes on public roads.
• Internal company certification as a crane operator may be required by some employers.
• Red Seal endorsement is also available to qualified mobile crane and tower crane operators upon successful completion of the interprovincial Red Seal examination.

• Progression to supervisory positions is possible with experience.
• The Red Seal endorsement allows for interprovincial mobility.

• Heavy equipment operators (73400)
• Underground production and development miners (83100)
• Contractors and supervisors, heavy equipment operator crews (72021)