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K - knowledge
L - language skills and knowledge
S - skills
S1 - communication, collaboration and creativity
S2 - information skills
S3 - assisting and caring
S4 - management skills
S5 - working with computers
S6 - handling and moving
S7 - constructing
S8 - working with machinery and specialised equipment
S8.0 - working with machinery and specialised equipment
S8.1 - operating mobile plant
S8.1.0 - operating mobile plant
S8.1.1 - operating earthmoving equipment
- control cutterheads
- demolish structures
- dig sewer trenches
- dig soil mechanically
- drive concrete piles
- drive metal sheet piles
- drive mobile heavy construction equipment
- drive steel piles
- drive timber piles
- guide operation of heavy construction equipment
- level earth surface
- move soil
- operate bulldozer
- operate construction scraper
- operate digging construction equipment
- operate excavator
- operate front loader
- operate grader
- operate LHD
- operate pile driver hammer
- operate press-in pile driver
- operate road marking machine
- operate road roller
- operate shotcreter
- operate vibratory pile hammer
- operate wrecking ball
S8.1.2 - operating agricultural or forestry equipment
S8.1.3 - operating lifting or moving equipment
S8.2 - driving vehicles
S8.3 - operating watercraft
S8.4 - operating machinery for the extraction and processing of raw materials
S8.5 - operating machinery for the manufacture of products
S8.6 - using precision instrumentation and equipment
S8.7 - installing, maintaining and repairing mechanical equipment
S8.8 - installing, maintaining and repairing electrical, electronic and precision equipment
S8.9 - operating aircraft
T - transversal skills and competences

This concept is obsolete

operate heavy construction machinery without supervision

transversal skills and competences

self-management skills and competences

working efficiently

work independently

operate heavy construction machinery without supervision

skills

working with machinery and specialised equipment

operating mobile plant

operating earthmoving equipment

operate heavy construction machinery without supervision

Concept overview

Description

Work with heavy construction machinery independently without the intervention of a supervisor. Take responsibility for your decisions and actions.

Alternative Labels

heavy construction machinery operation without supervision

independent heavy construction machinery operation

independently operating heavy construction machinery

independent operation of heavy construction machinery

operating heavy construction machinery unsupervised

operating heavy construction machinery without supervision

operation of heavy construction machinery without supervision

unsupervised operation of heavy construction machinery

Skill type

skill

Skill reusability level

cross-sector skills and competences

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DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion of the European Commission developed ESCO in collaboration with stakeholders and with the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop).

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Current version: ESCO v1.2 (Last update 15/05/2024)