Construction equipment mechanic vs crane mechanic

Differences between construction equipment mechanic and crane mechanic duties and responsibilities

Construction equipment mechanic example responsibilities.

• Maintain and manage shop for parts, supplies and priority in jobs and cleanliness.
• Work with cranes, scrapers, trench-digging machines, forklifts, bucket loaders, and bulldozers.
• Perform preventive maintenance on heavy construction equipment, heavy lift fork loaders and power generation equipment for the DOL installation.
• Work on construction equipment such as D9 bulldozers, seven and a half and twenty ton cranes, and earth scrapers.
• Pave and maintain concrete and asphalt roads, runways, etc.
• Perform asphalt and concrete cement street work, and electrical conduit construction.
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Crane mechanic example responsibilities.

• Obtain license for booms, slab scissors, rough terrain forklifts, and warehouse forklifts.
• Perform work in compliance with SHEA, ANSI, OSHA, and other applicable codes and regulations.
• Interact with customers to ensure that annual/ quarterly inspections are complete on time in compliance with OSHA regulations.
• Unschedule emergency repairs and breakdowns of cranes and relate equipment to facilitate minimal production delay.
• Supervise mechanics in the diagnosis and repair of technical difficulties, installation and in mechanical failures of military equipment.
• Conduct and solve several complicate troubleshooting problems involving a potential uncontrol dropped crane boom.
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