Rigger

Job Summary

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Signal or verbally direct workers engaged in hoisting and moving loads, to ensure safety of workers and materials.
• Test rigging to ensure safety and reliability.
• Attach loads to rigging to provide support or prepare them for moving, using hand and power tools
• Select gear such as slings, shackles, chokers and winches, per load weights and sizes, facilities, and work schedules.
• Control movement of heavy equipment through narrow openings or confined spaces, using chain falls, gin poles, gallows frames, and other equipment.
• Tilt, dip, and turn suspended loads to maneuver over, under, and/or around obstacles, using multi-point suspension techniques.
• Manipulate rigging lines, hoists, and pulling gear to move or support materials such as heavy equipment.
• Clean and dress machine surfaces and component parts.
• Attach pulleys and blocks to fixed overhead structures such as beams, ceilings, and gin pole booms, using bolts and clamps
• Dismantle and store rigging equipment after use.
• Use proper rigging apparatus (i.e. chains, slings and ropes) and techniques to ensure safe and proper lifting is performed.
• Work in adverse weather conditions including high and low temperatures and windy conditions
• Ensure that safety is included in all aspects of each job he/she performs.
• Use this position to influence operational personnel and visitors to do the same.
• Demonstrate support / use of JSAs for every task and actively assist the work group when they are developed.
• Attendance of all scheduled safety meetings and training.
• Participate in regular scheduled audits of equipment and tools.
• Identifying sub-standard acts and near misses.
• Assist in all safety and environmental incident investigations to help determine root cause.
• Ensure that he complies with the required STOP Observations and Near Miss Programs
• Perform other duties as assigned
• Travel extensively (internationally and domestically)
• Ability and willingness to work holidays, weekends and overtime as required by field assignments

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Trainee level. Trial position to ensure a good fit for the company – attitude, skills, ambition
• Basic skills training to ensure knowledge of fundamental concepts, practices and procedures of a particular field of specialization.
• High School Diploma and related mechanical experience (carpentry, lifts, cranes, etc.)
• Rigger / Auxiliary Moving & Material Handling Equipment Certifications highly desired but not required

Desired Characteristics