Rigging Operations Manager

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Full Time Operations Houston, TX, US

Company and Regional Office:

MEI Industrial Solutions is the premier provider of end-to-end industrial solutions across North America. Our safety-first approach offers a single-source industrial solution rooted in expertise from coast to coast demonstrated by 30 locations across 23 states.

MEI Industrial Solutions Houston delivers exceptional rigging, heavy equipment moving, millwrighting, and specialized packing services across Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma. Our Houston team excels in transloading services, project packaging, and certified hazardous materials handling. We are seeking a highly experienced Rigging Operations Manager to work alongside the Houston General Manager to contribute to organizational and strategy discussions and be highly involved in the financial performance of $20M - $100M+ in annual revenue.

A highly competitive salary and extensive benefits package are available for MEI employees.

Position Summary:

The Rigging Operations Manager (ROM) leads the rigging business unit and is accountable for its safety, performance, operational execution, and contribution to the Regional Office’s financial results and growth. Reporting to the Regional Office (RO) General Manager (GM) and participating in quarterly regional meetings, this role manages superintendents, dispatch, and field leadership. The role partners closely with the GM on P&L performance, owns capacity planning and the standardized processes that let the operation scale profitably and safely, and contributes to organizational structure and strategy for the office and region.

Essential

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Safety & Risk Leadership
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  Collaborates with the Safety team; owns safety results for the business unit (incidents, injuries, and motor vehicle accidents [MVAs]); lift planning governance and critical-lift review as needed; incident root-cause and corrective-action closure, including disciplinary recommendations.
• Financial Performance
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  Drives the rigging business unit’s contribution to the office P&L through labor productivity, overtime control, and equipment utilization; works closely with the GM to implement improvements; reviews rigging business unit financial results monthly with the GM.
• Operational Excellence & Scalability
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  Capacity planning and resource leveling across concurrent projects; reinforces development and training of rigging crews in best known methods (BKMs), rigging operation practices, standard work, and SOPs; dispatch optimization; and project execution.
• Functional Partnership
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  Customer-facing; works closely with the Sales team for job walks as needed, assists with estimating and pricing strategy, Works closely with project managers through the project lifecycle to support planning, forecasting, logistics, schedule changes, customer deliverables, and execution of readiness., particularly related to manpower and equipment utilization; works closely with the Sales team to manage customer complaints involving operational issues.
• Asset & Fleet Management
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  Assists the GM with CAPEX planning. Owns equipment utilization, tooling, preventive maintenance, repairs, and inspection records. Works closely with the DOT team on all related issues including fleet camera installation.
• Warehouse & Logistics Coordination
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  Partners closely with warehouse operations to ensure project materials are properly planned, received, staged, and loaded to support project schedules. Establishes communication flow between Rigging Operations, Warehousing, Project Management, and Dispatch to…