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DOT Code: 859.682-018

Industry: construction
Alternate Titles: hoisting engineer, pile driving

Operates pile driver mounted on skids, barge, crawler treads, or locomotive crane to drive piling as foundations for structures, such as buildings, bridges, and piers: Moves hand and foot levers to control diesel-, electric-, gasoline-, or steam-powered hoisting equipment to position piling leads, hoist piling into leads, and position hammer over top of pile. Moves levers and turns valves to activate power-driven hammer, or raise and lower drophammer which drives piles to required depth. May be designated according to type of power used to activate pile driver as Compressed-Air-Pile-Driver Operator (construction); Diesel-Pile-Driver Operator (construction); or type of piles driven as Concrete-Pile-Driver Operator (construction); Sheet-Pile-Driver Operator (construction); Wood-Pile-Driver Operator (construction); or type of mounting used as Pile-Driver Operator, Barge Mounted (construction). May be designated: Drop-Hammer-Pile-Driver Operator (construction); Electric-Pile-Driver Operator (construction); Steam-Pile-Driver Operator (construction).

GOE: 05.11.01 STRENGTH: M GED: R3 M2 L2 SVP: 5 DLU: 77