Rigging Foreman-Salisbury, MA

MEI Rigging & Crating•Salisbury, MA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

MEI Industrial Solutions is a professional machinery moving company providing quality machinery moving services nationwide, including rigging, millwrighting, mechanical installation, commercial storage, crating, and export packing services. Our clients range across industries including Aerospace, Automotive, Construction, Data Center, Institutional, Manufacturing, and Medical, as well as companies in many other industries. We are known in the industry for our professionalism, safety focus, quality methods, and skilled teams. The Salisbury, MA team supports a variety of projects, including relocations, heavy equipment installations and removals, crane work, concrete work, millwrighting, transportation, and storage. The location also has welders and carpenters supporting project work. Projects primarily serve Aerospace & Defense, Healthcare & Pharma, Semiconductor, Food & Beverage, and General Manufacturing customers. We are guided by our corporate values of integrity, respect, professionalism, safety, commitment, and results. The rigging foreman position is responsible for all rigging activities that take place on assigned job site.

Requirements

HS diploma or equivalent necessary.
Proven machinery moving foreman experience or comparable field experience, preferably within the machinery moving industry.
Excellent interpersonal, supervisory and project management skills.
Highly self-directed and motivated.
Valid driver’s license required.
Must have own hand tools.
Must have extensive experience moving machinery with forklift, skating, leveling and anchoring of machines.
Must be able to work alongside field technicians in assembly and erecting of machine tools.
Work with a Top-of-Mind Awareness for the safety of yourself and everyone at the job site.
Must be able to work in a high functioning team environment.
Display the highest levels of honesty, integrity, and professionalism.
Take pride in your work and in the company.
Communicate openly and strive for peak performance in daily tasks.
Know and deliver the quality service MEI’s customers have come to expect.

Nice To Haves

Relocation to Salisbury, MA or the surrounding local area is required.
Eligible out-of-state candidates may receive a $5,000 relocation allowance.
Travel may be required based on project and customer needs.
Per diem is provided when staying overnight outside of the Salisbury, MA area.

Responsibilities

Responsible for all job site management activities of the rigging crew.
Develops, plans and implements crew schedules in alignment with the customer and sales personnel with direction of the job.
Directs workforce to meet operational goals in terms of volume, cost, quality, safety and schedule.
Directly supervises and works with one or more machinery moving crews.
Working foreman role with the ability to effectively move machinery utilizing forklifts, skates and jacks (not cranes).
Develop, train and instruct machinery moving crews in best known rigging operation practices and procedures including safety.
Work closely with safety personnel in coordinating safety training, accident and injury investigations and reporting and equipment or property damage incidents investigations and reporting.
Build customer and employee relationships with excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Develop highly effective relationships with customers, business partners, crating operations management and support staff.
Effectively manage job site projects by organizing all project information to ensure they are accurate and contain all necessary information.
Consistently demonstrates professional conduct representative of MEI corporate mission, vision and values.
Must be able to drive to customer job sites and work and direct all activities on customer job sites.