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:: General :: Entry Level Positions :: Enter as a Crane Operator? Author Topic: Enter as a Crane Operator? (Read 2,377 times) davidc Member member is offline Joined: Jan 2012 Gender: Male Posts: 1 Enter as a Crane Operator? « Thread Started on Mar 5, 2012, 2:35am » I want to get an entry level job, maybe as a roustabout, but a human resources person told me that I might have a better future as a crane operator. So I plan to go to a local crane school to take 2 days of prep class and then the written and practical tests. Is that a decent idea for how to get into an entry level job, and/or is Crane Operator a good choice for starting a career in the oil business? Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Rebel Tool Leading Member member is offline One fine sunny day....... Joined: May 2010 Gender: Male Posts: 829 Location: UK Re: Enter as a Crane Operator? « Reply #1 on Mar 5, 2012, 10:47am » I think most rig owners and platform operators would expect a crane driver to have served some time as a roustabout, simply because on most rigs the crane driver also acts as the supervisor for the deck crew so he needs to know what he is talking about and also have the respect of the people that he is supervising. I don't know what kind of crane school you are talking about, but I wonder if they would be able to teach you all about the complicated business of running casing, working boats, picking up BHA etc. To act as roustabout pusher, deck boss or whatever the local terminology is means that you have to know the business in detail, you would be supervising all sorts of different jobs ranging from something simple like sending a guy off with a bucket of deckwash and a mop to organising unloading and setting down 200 joints of casing, 43 containers, some containing hazardous goods, getting onboard 1000bbl of oil based mud, 500tonne of bulk cement and 250 tonne of bulk barite. At the same time as that you have to juggle around a backload of 33 containers, 8 cargo baskets and a bunch of loose drillpipe and collars. All the casing is going to have to be arranged on deck in the right order and different grades of casing are going to have to be sorted out. Meanwhile there is a chopper due in in 45 minutes and you are also helicopter landing officer. Not the kind of work that you learn in a classroom. If you are talking about land rigs, I think they tend to do most of the lifting on the rig site using front loaders and fork lifts, everything is designed that way and anything that needs a heavier lift is typically done by bringing in a specialist hire crane. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Information or opinions are solely provided for educational and/or discussion purposes on an informal public forum and should not be interpreted as a recommendation for a specific treatment plan, course of action or product/ service. Use of any of this information does not replace consultations with individuals qualified in these respective fields. 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