This occupation is present in a variety of industries, wherever organisations have lifting tools. For instance this could possibly be in marine, development, manufacturing, distribution, medical, agriculture, mining and quarrying, aeronautical, renewable, leisure and navy environments. It is a globally recognised occupation, in demand wherever lifting tools is used.
Examples of apparatus embody, however usually are not restricted to, hoists used for the lifting of lighting rigs at festivals to chain slings on development websites. Tools might be in nearly any kind of business, together with onshore or offshore, in automotive crops, plane manufacturing organisations, ship constructing, yacht constructing, meals processing, warehousing and common engineering services.
They’re usually employed in organisations who present a bespoke service or in-house by the customers of the tools. This may embody lifting tools producers, finish customers, house owners, distributors, hirers and inspectors.
They’ll typically be required to work on web site and at purchasers premises and can want to have the ability to journey to them, so will usually want a driving licence. The broad objective of the occupation is to restore, preserve, modify, examine, take a look at, set up and assemble lifting tools to make sure its suitability and security for a continued interval of service. They supply documentation and technical recommendation to prospects and verify that tools is being maintained in accordance with statutory necessities. Moreover, the function could embody the elimination of apparatus from service or decommissioning the place it’s thought of to be unsafe and doesn’t meet regulatory requirements.
Lifting Tools Technicians are self-motivated downside solvers who work with organisations to resolve points and provide you with options to their on a regular basis wants. They guarantee the protection and suitability of the tools used for lifting items or individuals so as to meet regulatory necessities. Of their day by day work, an worker on this occupation interacts with web site managers, manufacturing managers, well being & security managers, workshop supervisors, design engineers, tools and part suppliers and authorities businesses, such because the HSE.
They could work independently or inside a crew and usually report back to a senior line supervisor who can provide assist, information, and greatest apply steerage. An worker on this occupation might be liable for supporting the organisations during which they’re employed or offering a service to. They usually have accountability for a spread of lifting tools to make sure it has been correctly verified as secure to be used. The Lifting Tools Technician can interpret and adjust to contract data, corresponding to service contracts, and work with the lifting organisations who maintain or personal lifting tools. They are additionally liable for making certain Well being & Security, Regulatory and High quality necessities are met, and for taking an energetic function generally workshop high quality management.
They’re liable for making certain the upkeep of their very own instruments and tools and the tidiness of their working space.
Though there are not any statutory or regulatory entry necessities, this occupation does require workers to have a agency understanding of mathematical ideas, due to this fact usually employers would require candidates to carry a degree 2 qualification in arithmetic.
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Information
K1: The categories, purposes and distinctive traits of lifting tools, together with static and operated by hand tools, derivatives and the related know-how and the traits and bodily mechanical properties of supplies used within the manufacturing of lifting tools
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K2: Diagnostic and evaluation ideas required to take care of, restore and modify the mechanical facets of lifting tools to satisfy producer specs
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K3: Present laws and Requirements for lifting tools, parts, instruments and tools
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K4: Laws and required compliance throughout the lifting tools business, together with lifting tools rules (for instance Lifting Operations Lifting Tools Rules (LOLER), Equipment Directive, Provision and Use of Work Tools Rules (PUWER), Provide of Equipment (Security) Rules, Well being and Security at Work Act, Management of Substances Hazardous to Well being (COSHH), Working at Peak, Confined area working, producer’s directions and business requirements.
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K5: Workshop and onsite operations which can embody ordering, inventory management and proper use of documentation corresponding to order types, restore types, quarantine types and reviews of thorough examination
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K6: Varieties of buyer interplay and customer support methods together with when to contact the client, the tone that must be adopted, how one can time and comply with up communication – each verbally and in writing, and how one can modify the method to take account of consumers’/purchasers’ wants
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K7: Business practices, services and products
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K8: How to make sure the protection of self, colleagues and anybody within the working space (threat/hazard identification); handbook dealing with, right choice and use of Private Protecting Tools (PPE), Threat Evaluation and Methodology Statements.
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K9: Protected disposal and recycling of related waste (together with waste oils, cleansing fluids, batteries, tyres, and many others.). Environmental insurance policies.
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K10: The rights and obligations of an worker and employer, together with the significance of respecting individuals from numerous backgrounds and treating individuals pretty
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K11: Evaluation of apparatus for continued secure use, corresponding to how one can determine the restore required, part compatibility, time and supplies required to repair
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K12: Information of producer specs and business working practices – understanding pre-use checks, storage of apparatus, when and the place to make use of them, meeting, upkeep and secure use directions, figuring out the significance of following producers’ specs and organisations’ procedures when making repairs and putting in lifting tools
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K13: Ideas of dealing with hazardous tools, supplies and substances, their secure dealing with, preservation, storage & transport of broken objects, emergency procedures, figuring out when to ask for third celebration recommendation and steerage
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K14: Customary working features of lifting tools in regular use
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K15: Go or fail inspection standards for tools when failed or is just not match for objective, corresponding to identification of frequent defects and elements that commonly break or go lacking and should be changed, together with chain put on options, lacking or damaged latches in hooks
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K16: Operation of handbook or IT purposes used within the workshop and on-site atmosphere, corresponding to excel, search engines like google and firm reporting methods
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K17: Scheduling and undertaking administration methods; planning and the significance of assembly undertaking deadlines (how one can handle oneself to satisfy firm targets)
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K18: Causes of defects and upkeep points and downside fixing. Methods to determine probably causes of harm, for instance. manufacturing fault, put on, misuse or overloading
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K19: Methods to put together an entire report in line with legislative necessities and who to contact about defects and how one can tackle them, together with when to inform statutory our bodies
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K20: Methods to calculate in use operational secure working masses contemplating working situations, technique of use for the tools and working atmosphere, corresponding to how one can work out a
share, mode components, uniform load technique, trigonometric technique calculations, algebra and Pythagoras theorem, Items of measure, together with imperial and metric methods and how one can convert them
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K21: Manufacturing methods and ensuing affect on secure and proper operational use of apparatus
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K22: Warmth therapy, ideas and processes – together with important ranges and the implications of not attaining right temperature ranges
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K23: Stress and pressure and their affect on materials behaviour
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K24: Verification strategies and the way and when to make use of them. This consists of harmful and non-destructive testing, which could possibly be visible examination, operational / practical testing, load testing, proof load testing, Magnetic Particle Inspection (MPI), dye penetrant, bend testing, Eddy present testing, X-ray testing, ultrasound testing, Izod testing and Charpy testing
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K25: Marking necessities and methods
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K26: Methods to use measuring tools and calibrated instruments together with digital verniers, torqueing instruments, dial gauges, load cells, compression instruments and micrometers
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Abilities
S1: Use information, expertise and judgement to undertake inspections/examinations in accordance with producer’s directions and pointers and business requirements
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S2: Estimate time required to finish a activity
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S3: Determine parts that require restore, alternative or discard and diagnose faults
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S4: Restore or exchange part elements in accordance with producer’s pointers and business requirements
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S5: Assemble, dismantle and reassemble new and used lifting tools
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S6: Full routine upkeep on objects of lifting tools in accordance with producer’s directions, pointers and business requirements
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S7: Manufacture/assemble metal wire rope sling in accordance with the relevant and present EN, BS, or ISO manufacturing requirements (or different customary specified by the shopper) and methods or specs
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S8: Measure and assess put on tolerances and deformation in step with producer directions/steerage and business customary
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S9: Learn and interpret technical drawings, schematic elements diagrams, load charts and technical specs
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S10: Analysis data utilizing arduous copy and digital codecs, e.g. referring to LOLER, producers specs, requirements
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S11: Log and document work actions and put together reviews, corresponding to a Report of Thorough Examination, Examination Defect Report, timesheets
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S12: Determine and use instruments and measuring gadgets required for a activity, for instance verniers, load cells, tape measure, metal rule
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S13: Preserve a clear, tidy and secure working space
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S14: Apply firm high quality management measures
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S15: Apply information of lifting tools to appropriately information prospects within the collection of lifting tools for the duty
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S16: Work in accordance with Protected Techniques of Work and apply management measures as required (corresponding to Well being and Security at Work Act, Working at Peak, Threat Evaluation and Methodology Statements)
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S17: Apply secure handbook dealing with methods
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S18: Successfully talk each verbally and in writing
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S19: Determine and use Private Protecting Tools (PPE)
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S20: Develop secure methods of labor, together with threat assessments and technique statements, Specifying manpower required, Specifying {qualifications}, coaching and expertise necessities, Figuring out secure strategies of entry and transportation, Figuring out right PPE for the duty, Specifying work location and atmosphere, plant, equipment, instruments and tools, Figuring out the relevant statutory and buyer security requirements that have to be complied with
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S21: Determine poisonous and dangerous substances and environments and apply management measures
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S22: Dispose of apparatus, parts and substances in accordance with environmental rules, business requirements and firm coverage
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S23: Management and handle spills
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S24: Carry out various kinds of checks to confirm lifting tools, eg gentle load take a look at, proof load, perform take a look at
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S25: Use lifting tools safely
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S26: Set up lifting tools in accordance with producers’ specification and business working practices
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S27: Mark lifting tools in accordance with industrial requirements
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Behaviours
B1: Security Aware – Places security first. At all times makes use of security tools and PPE and has prospects’ security in thoughts
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B2: Collaborative – For instance, works properly with others. helps different individuals (colleagues and/or purchasers), considers the implications of their actions on different individuals and the enterprise, listens to others and has a constructive and respectful perspective
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B3: Skilled Values – Behaves in a fashion that aligns with the corporate ethos, together with immediate timekeeping, good presentation of self and dealing space, acts as a accountable ambassador for the enterprise, by working effectively, treating all purchasers, workers and associates respectfully and assembly buyer and employer expectations
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B4: Honesty and Integrity – Acts with integrity, giving sincere and correct steerage to prospects
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B5: Outcomes Pushed – Completes duties in accordance with the precise job necessities , throughout the agreed timescale, demonstrating acceptable workmanship and finishing the required documentation accurately.
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B6: High quality Focus – Exhibits consideration to element and makes use of a logical method to downside fixing. Seeks alternatives to enhance high quality, velocity and effectivity. Stays motivated and dedicated when dealing with challenges
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B7: Steady Private Growth – Receptive to constructive suggestions from friends and administration and proactive in giving suggestions to others. Displays on personal information, expertise and behaviours and seeks alternatives to develop
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B8: Assertive and Assured – Is assured and communicates with conviction
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B9: Self-Motivation – Takes accountability for completion of personal work
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B10: Adaptability – In a position to modify to modifications to work directions and duties
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