Rigger Journeyman

Kiewit•Abilene, TX

About The Position

Plan, lay out, and install rigging components needed to lift and install equipment, machinery, pipe, steel, and other items in accordance with plans, specifications, codes, and industry standards. The role involves rigging heavy equipment, preparing items for installation and crane hoisting, guiding loads into position, selecting rigging components, identifying suitable rigging points, and maintaining an understanding of load-handling equipment dynamics and hazards. This position is based in a construction or industrial environment, including power plant or industrial settings. The work may involve irregular hours, weekends, overtime, and holidays; exposure to outdoor weather, noise, dust, confined or cluttered spaces, and uneven surfaces; and access to elevated work areas using ladders, platforms, manlifts, or scaffolds. The employee must follow safety and project rules and may be required to perform other duties as needed.

Requirements

Experience as a Rigger Journeyman in a power plant or industrial setting.
Strong working knowledge, skills, and abilities for the position.
Ability to understand, follow, and transmit written and oral instructions and communicate effectively with management and supervision.
Proficiency in safe and efficient use of electrical tools, hand tools, power tools, layout tools, and measurement tools.
Must have required tools.
Ability to pass pre-access drug and alcohol testing and fit-for-duty medical assessment.
Ability to constantly move about a construction or industrial site and stand, walk, sit, reach, stoop, kneel, crouch, and/or crawl.
Ability to climb and maintain balance on formwork, steel formwork, stairs, ladders, and scaffolds; access equipment or work areas that may exceed 200 feet.
Ability to work in and around confined and cluttered places and on uneven surfaces, and complete tasks in noisy and dusty environments.
Ability to move items weighing up to 50 pounds across a construction or industrial site, as required.
Ability to work irregular hours, weekends, overtime, and holidays as required.

Responsibilities

Set up and rig large-scale heavy equipment.
Position, align, or level machines, equipment, or structures.
Shake out items into an erectable installation sequence and rig them for crane hoisting, using thorough knowledge of crane signals.
Guide rigged items into position using a tag line.
Estimate sizes, distances, quantities, time, costs, resources, or materials needed for work activities.
Inspect subordinate work for compliance with contract plans and specifications, identify deficiencies, and explain and take corrective action.
Select rigging components and develop basic rigging procedures for general load-handling activities.
Identify suitable rigging points for loads and select rated rigging based on anticipated tension.
Maintain a working understanding of LHE dynamics and associated hazards.
Observe and comply with safety and project rules and perform other duties as required.