Rigger
- Ideal for those who love hands-on work and ensuring safety in dynamic environments.
- Essential role in moving and securing heavy loads across various industries.
- Unique chance to work in diverse settings, from shipyards to entertainment stages.
💰 Earn $59K-$108K
📚 High School Diploma or GED
Overview
Set up or repair rigging for construction projects, manufacturing plants, logging yards, ships and shipyards, or for the entertainment industry.Scoop
High School Diploma or GED
Good (Increasing by 1-5%)
Day-to-Day
- Test rigging to ensure safety and reliability.
- Signal or verbally direct workers engaged in hoisting and moving loads to ensure safety of workers and materials.
- Control movement of heavy equipment through narrow openings or confined spaces, using chainfalls, gin poles, gallows frames, and other equipment.
- Tilt, dip, and turn suspended loads to maneuver over, under, or around obstacles, using multi-point suspension techniques.
- Select gear, such as cables, pulleys, and winches, according to load weights and sizes, facilities, and work schedules.
Best For You If...
YOU Like 💕
- Using data or completing tasks
- Working with my hands
- Thinking and problem solving
You are skilled in 💫
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Critical Thinking
- Speaking
- Active Listening
- Monitoring
You value 🙏
- Having support
- Job security
- Personal relationships
In Action
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Rigger
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