My best friend is moving up here from southern CA and he's a licensed crane operator, but is having trouble finding anywhere that can use crane operators.

He's been an oiler for 2-3 years and a licensed operator for 2 for a marine engineering company.

 

He should move to Dubai.


I want to move to Dubai.

 

everyone does lol, I do too!

 

My work hires crane operators, but it's not so often. Your buddys best bet is to contact crane companies like Bigge, Maxim, Sheedy, etc. There is also he operator engineers local 3 who has a great program. They make very good money as well (I believe the highest level it's above 60 per hour). All our company crane operators started out working for companies like maxim, bigge as oilers and slowly moved up to operators, so it's a sure fire way to a great career. I work with them everyday (I'm a pipefitter).

Tell your friend good luck.

 

Thanks Steve, he's already talked to Bigge, but I'll tell him to talk to Maxim and Sheedy too. Do you know if they have to come into the union first or the job, then enter the union?

 

I don't know about Sheedy, but Maxim is also union. But the way I understand it if your are already a journeyman crane operator you can go to the company and "buy your book" (the company does) for a journeyman position in the local 3. So that would be ideal, because your friend would go right to the top pay.

If he is not dead set on being a crane operator he can always work as a rigger (which is much more fun IMO, I also have to be a rigger) or oiler (basically operators assistant). And that leads to being a operator, but they all pay very well its just the big crane (100 ton+) operators make BIG bucks. Its kinda hard in the crafts to move from another area and just go to work, being local and the "good ole boy program" seems to have its effects on who gets what jobs.

Let me know how it goes. And if my work puts out a listing for crane operators I'll post it up as well.

 

Sheedy is union. I work for a shipping company at the port of Oakland. It's difficult to become a crane operator on the docks, unless you have seniority in the ILWU. Good luck to your friend. I was talking to a friend of mine's father who is a crane operator for Sheedy and it sounds like it has been slow.

 

opcorn:

wow, this thread is awesome, its like watching season 2 of the wire all over again.

 

Ziggy was such a tard. Season 2 ftw!

 

Ziggy was such a tard. Season 2 ftw!

 

He just wants to find a way in up here, he's open to both rigging and oiling. He's done both before getting seat time in the crane.

He's going to send in a bunch of resumes to some of the port of oakland container places, and to the big crane companies too, so hopefully something comes from it.