Crane Operator

Triple-S Steel•Houston, TX

14d

About The Position

The Crane Operator is responsible for executing safety standards, achieving daily productivity goals while meeting quality requirements, performing routine maintenance, and assisting with non-routine maintenance. The role is with the Beshert branch, a joint venture between Triple-S and Steel Warehouse. The work involves safely moving steel between storage or production areas, loading docks, and delivery vehicles using manual handling and equipment such as forklifts and overhead cranes. The employee must follow safe work methods, maintain assigned tools and equipment, and promptly report unsafe conditions or equipment issues. The position requires work indoors and outdoors in varied local weather conditions, including precipitation, cold, heat, high winds, and turbulent conditions. The employee must remain aware of people and moving equipment in the work area. Physical activities described include lifting and carrying, standing, walking, reaching, squatting, climbing stairs and ladders, and working on equipment while wearing required personal protective equipment. The posting also describes occasional exposure to moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and electrical-shock risk in operations or laboratory areas.

Requirements

Correctly read work orders or receive oral instructions to determine work assignments and material or equipment needs.
Safely meet or exceed the Company’s minimum productivity levels.
Plan and organize work independently of direct supervision and work alone or in a team environment.
Develop a good working knowledge of product and inventory control techniques and procedures.
Maintain ongoing inter-department communications related to routing, safety, and customer relations.
Demonstrate basic math skills, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
May be required to demonstrate strong customer relations skills.
Use hands and fingers to handle or feel, and talk or hear.
Occasionally stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms.
Lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 40 pounds.
Have close vision, distance vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

Responsibilities

Follow Triple-S safe methods of work and immediately advise a supervisor of unsafe conditions.
Safely move steel to and from storage or production areas, loading docks, and delivery vehicles by hand or using a forklift, overhead crane, or other equipment.
Attach slings, hooks, or other devices to lift material and guide loads; climb onto vehicles to tie down or release material being loaded.
Apply proper bundling techniques.
Configure loads based on planned routes, including multiple stops.
Maximize trailer load capacity without sacrificing safety.
Maintain and safely operate assigned tools and equipment, including tape measures, calipers, hammers, pallet trucks, banding machines, micrometers, beam hooks, plate lifting clamps, forklifts, overhead cranes, and personal protective equipment.
Identify equipment safety issues and promptly report them.
Maintain spatial orientation and awareness while moving through a work environment with moving objects.
Judge near and far distances to remain aware of other people’s and equipment’s activities.
Attend required company meetings.
Perform routine maintenance and assist with non-routine maintenance.
Perform other duties as assigned.