Senior Industrial Millwright & Heavy Rigging Field Lead

Job Description

Job Description

Overview:

• Join the client as a  Commercial Electrician supporting commercial electrical projects across South Florida. Apply your journeyman-level expertise to power distribution, lighting controls, electrical installations, and related systems.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience in industrial millwright work, machinery installation, heavy rigging, or industrial plant maintenance.
• Advanced ability to read, interpret, and build directly from technical mechanical drawings, equipment assembly schematics, and structural elevation plans.
• Complete willingness and ability to travel regionally via ground and air, including out-of-town stays lasting up to 14 consecutive days.
• Deep working knowledge of industrial mechanical drives, bearings, gearboxes, hydraulics, pneumatics, and power transmission components.
• Hands-on experience operating rigging equipment, gantry systems, hydraulic jacks, forklifts, and aerial lifts to move heavy industrial machinery safely.

Responsibilities

• Unload, stage, assemble, and set heavy industrial machinery, structural steel bases, and mechanical drive assemblies using cranes, hoists, chain falls, and heavy rigging gear.
• Align shafts, electric motors, gearboxes, industrial pumps, and roller conveyors to precise tolerances using optical instruments, dial indicators, and laser alignment technology.
• Troubleshoot and repair real-time mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic equipment failures on site to restore client manufacturing operations during tight shutdown windows.
• Perform field cutting, gouging, grinding, and structural welding (SMAW/FCAW) to modify machinery mounts, guardrails, piping, and structural supports during field installations.
• Execute machinery positioning, structural piping, and mechanical assembly safely at elevation, adhering strictly to OSHA fall-protection and scaffolding safety standards.