$36.10-$43.88 Hourly / $6,257.00-$7,605.00 Monthly / $75,088.00-$91,260.00 Yearly
1. Rigs for heavy lifts such as lumber, cement blocks, machinery and equipment.
2. Pulls trees, roots and fences.
3. Slings, rigs and places electrical generators, chlorine tanks and electric motors.
4. Replaces flag poles and signs.
5. Rigs for handling live and dead animals for the zoo.
6. Moves booths, engineer shacks and small houses.
7. Rigs trucks and heavy equipment for towing.
Requires a good knowledge of the principles of leverage through the use of cables, ropes, pulleys and slings in moving heavy equipment and material; strength and safety factors involving the equipment operated; methods, practices and signals used as applied to rigging; safety precautions necessary in moving and lifting all types of objects.
Requires ability to: use various types of knots and linkages; detect flaws and weaknesses in ropes and cables; estimate weights of material and equipment.
Requires skill in the fabrication and adjustment of a variety of rigs necessary to lifting and towing operations and the operations of related equipment.