Rigger III

The Rigger III serves as the Lead Rigger responsible for directing rigging operations on data center, construction, and other mission-critical job sites. This position oversees lift planning, crew coordination, qualification verification, hazard control, and execution of complex and critical lifts. The Rigger III ensures compliance with OSHA requirements, company standards, customer requirements, engineered lift plans, and site-specific safety expectations. This role provides technical leadership, verifies pre-lift readiness, enforces stop-work authority, and maintains the highest safety standards.

This role may operate a crane or other covered equipment only when properly certified or licensed, evaluated, authorized, and assigned in accordance with applicable requirements.

• Lead and oversee rigging activities on data center, construction, and mission-critical project sites.
• Serve as Lead Rigger and designated qualified person for assigned rigging operations, including verification of lift plans, rigging configurations, crew qualifications, equipment condition, fall-zone controls, communication protocols, and stop-work readiness.
• Plan, coordinate, and execute complex, engineered, critical, tandem, high-value, unusual, or high-risk lifts with project leadership, crane operators, equipment operators, safety teams, and customer representatives.
• Conduct advanced inspections of rigging equipment, lifting devices, lift points, below-the-hook devices, and load-control systems; verify identification and working load limit markings; and remove damaged, defective, unmarked, or suspect equipment from service.
• Review, verify, create, or support development of lift plans and ensure proper rigging configurations, load paths, barricades, exclusion zones, tag-line controls, and communication methods are established before work begins.
• Assign and supervise work of Rigger I and Rigger II team members based on training, qualification, experience, task complexity, and site conditions.
• Operate a crane or other covered equipment only when current equipment-specific certification or licensing, employer evaluation, company authorization, and project approval are in place.
• Maintain documentation for lift plans, job hazard analyses, pre-lift meetings, rigging inspections, qualification records, equipment deficiencies, safety briefings, and compliance records.
• Enforce OSHA, company, customer, and site-specific safety standards across rigging operations, including PPE, fall protection, suspended-load avoidance, fall-zone control, equipment inspection, hazard communication, and housekeeping.
• Identify hazards, suspend lifts, and stop work when unsafe conditions, unclear communication, defective equipment, uncontrolled access, weather concerns, or unapproved changes to the lift plan are present.
• Conduct pre-lift meetings, toolbox talks, safety briefings, post-lift reviews, and ongoing training for rigging personnel.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for crane operators, equipment operators, site leadership, safety teams, and customer representatives regarding rigging execution and lift readiness.
• Coordinate protection of mission-critical assets, finished surfaces, energized equipment, access routes, building systems, and surrounding work groups during equipment movement and lifting operations.
• Report and document unsafe conditions, defective equipment, injuries, incidents, dropped objects, near misses, property damage, and lessons learned in accordance with company and site requirements.
• Perform additional duties supporting rigging leadership, material handling, equipment movement, training, and jobsite safety operations as assigned.

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