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Riggers

  • Architecture and Construction

Tasks

What tasks do Riggers perform?

  • 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.

  • Select gear, such as cables, pulleys, and winches, according to load weights and sizes, facilities, and work schedules.


Knowledge

What do Riggers need to know?

  • Mechanical

    Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.

  • Public Safety and Security

    Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.

  • Production and Processing

    Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.


Skills

What skills do Riggers need?

  • Operation and Control

    Controlling operations of equipment or systems.

  • Monitoring

    Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.

  • Operations Monitoring

    Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.



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