WHO ARE WE ? GEOLOCATE US VIDEOS APPLY NEWS NEWSLETTER CAREERS KNOW HOW SUSTAINABLE EXPERTISE Know-how / Follow our projects / File of the month Crane operator: experience and booming technology Like a metronome, it sets the pace for the life and activity of the site! For most of the inhabitants of a city or a neighborhood, the presence of a crane marks the place of an important construction site. Whatever the site or the type of crane, the principle is the same everywhere: one machine, one crane operator. Because if a team can do without a mason, an electrician or even a site manager for a day, a crane operator cannot be replaced at short notice. One day of absence, and a whole part of the activity must be stopped, with what this can cause delays and potential costs. The crane supplies several teams with various materials and its daily load schedule is generally important. Technology evolves ... the feeling remains The planning must also be studied with the team leaders, ideally every morning, in order to schedule the different phases as efficiently as possible. It is essential to know how the tasks of the day are organized in order to take into account the time necessary for each load to be lifted, the distances to be covered and especially of course the weather on which we all depend. Since the beginning of the 2000s, technology has certainly brought major changes in daily work: the interiors are fitted with electronic devices capable of informing crane operators about a great deal of data, but experience is essential. Thus, on construction sites, it is common to find what are called “wind corridors”, 20 m or 30 m below the living area and very far from the sensors of the measuring tools, which risk causing a very deviation. heavily loads of several tons. This is where the “feeling”, the know-how, the interpretation of clues such as the movement of flags on the site or the behavior of birds come into play. A kind of technical “talent” that can only be learned with years of experience and practice! A job that requires atypical skills: to be a crane operator you have to be autonomous, not be afraid of loneliness, know how to make decisions quickly… and of course, not be dizzy. © VINCI Construction France >> Access the list of Monthly Archives Know how Our jobs Building Civil engineering Hydraulic Specialty trades Follow our projects Work in progress Site of the month File of the month Our quality approach HISTORICAL The history of VINCI Construction France since 1878 FABRIQUE DE LA CITÉ Reinvent the city to face the challenges of today and tomorrow. Site map Accessibility Legal notices © VINCI Construction France 2009 RSS feed A VINCI company Visit the VINCI Construction site