Advanced Rigger

Essential Job Functions

• Inspects rigging to ensure safety and reliability before engaging in hoisting or lifting
• Aligns, levels and anchors cranes and equipment
• Identifies lift points
• Assembles and installs supporting structures, rigging, hoist and pulling gear
• Identifies and attaches rigging with basic knowledge of hitch configuration, capabilities & basic knots; attaches load to rigging to provide support or prepare for moving using hand and power tools
• Connects pulleys and blocks to fixed overhead structures, with bolts, shackles and clamps
• Cleans and dresses machine and surfaces of component parts
• Controls movements of heavy equipment through narrow openings or confined spaces
• Dismantles, maintains and stores rigging equipment
• Maintains rigging lines, hoist, to move or support materials, steel, concrete, etc.
• Signals or gives verbal directions to workers engaged in hoisting and moving loads to ensure safety or workers and materials
• Understands math applications; weights, balance & measurements

Experience / Certification

• Nationally accredited, third-party certification (NCCER, NCCCO)

Work Environment

• Regularly required to walk, sit, talk, and hear
• Regularly required to stand, use hands to finger, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms
• Regularly required to climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
• May be required to lift, push, pull and/or move up to 50 pounds
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus
• Daily, weekly yard walks as needed for equipment verification, key measurements, axle loads, weighing may be required of this position
• May be required to wear respirator occasionally
• May be asked to perform function in or near a nuclear power plant, petrochemical plant or other active facility