CRANE OPERATOR ( STEEL PLANT INDUSTRY)

Position: Crane Operator

Company Overview:

Star Services LLC is a leading provider of industrial services, specializing in construction, maintenance, and operations support for a wide range of industries. With over 20 years of experience, we have established ourselves as a trusted partner for our clients, delivering high-quality services and solutions that meet their specific needs.

Job Summary:

We are currently seeking a skilled Crane Operator to join our team on a full-time, permanent basis. The successful candidate will be responsible for operating various types of cranes to lift, move, and position heavy objects and materials on construction sites and other industrial settings. This is a physically demanding role that requires a high level of skill, precision, and safety awareness.

Key Responsibilities:

• Efficient & Safe handling of billets.
• Liaise with Mill production team for feeding to rolling mills and removing off size/shape/grade billets when instructed.
• Ensure that one crane is operation when production is in process, never leave the crane when other cranes are not in operation and the production is going on.
• Ensure pre-operation checks of major crane controls
• Operating cranes as per safe crane operational practices.
• Shift billets from one location to another when needed.
• Ensure billets are picked up for charging from location mentioned in rolling program and instructed by shift controller
• Ensure each grade and size billets are stacked separately.
• Loading of trailers as and when instructed for either internal shifting or outdoor shifting.
• Ensure adequate coordination amongst other crane operators to prevent safety incidence and render uninterrupted service to production departments and loading of dispatch truck.
• Stack billets in secure manner.
• Report on crane performance to the shift controller in every shift.
• Remove ejected billets from furnace charging grid area and stack in secure manner
• Assist engineering crew when assistance is sought by them while attending to maintenance issues.
• Maintain the crane operating cabin clean
• Shifting of material from one location to another to accommodate production

Minimum Education and  Qualifications

• 10 years of fulltime school education
• Possess UAE appropriate operating license.
• 5 Years in Heavy Industries in handling heavy material with crane
• Material Handling in Integrated steel industry or metallurgical Plant
• Experience in operating cranes with lifting magnets
• Good physical capabilities and health
• Ability to judge distance, height, vision, clearance, hearing, color distinction, reasonable quick reflexes and asses the load weigh
• Basic knowledge of rigging and safe crane operation.
• Conversant with hand signals for crane operation and hazards involved in cranes operation
• Ability to read and understand verbal and written communications and interpret Rolling programs.
• Technical knowledge of crane operation and its controls and carry out pre operation checks