Rigger Maintenance [Bargaining Unit]

Position overview:

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s Facilities & Operations Division seeks a Rigger Maintenance to join our Crane/Rigging and Fleet team. Members of this team are responsible for operating heavy material handling equipment to lift, move, and position equipment, parts, and materials critical for the lab’s scientific and operational needs. This position reports to the Facilities Service Manager for Crane/Rigging and Fleet unit.

Your specific responsibilities include:

• Move, transport, and position equipment, parts, and shielding
• Assist Rigger Specialists on various assignments.
• Make periodic maintenance checks of all bridge cranes and mobile equipment used by the rigging group.
• Work from prints, lift plans, sketches, or verbal directions to assemble and locate equipment.
• Exercise extreme care and safety in moving equipment and materials.
• Use a variety of tools and equipment including overhead cranes, mobile cranes, fork trucks, and low bed truck trailers, etc.
• Estimate weight of equipment or blocks to be moved and select the proper equipment to perform the task.
• Maintain wire rope on hoist cranes and mobile equipment, including eye splicing of wire rope, checking drums and hooks.
• Assist Maintenance Mechanics in performing preventative maintenance.

• Characteristic Duties: The duties listed in this section are designed to provide a representative sampling of key tasks and/or responsibilities associated with the job. They are not intended to be a complete list of all the duties performed by employees in the classification.

To be successful in this position you will bring:

• Ability to work from prints, lift plans sketches, or verbal directions to assemble and locate equipment.
• Must be familiar with site environmental and safety rules, regulations, and requirements.
• Sufficient work experience in the maintenance and operation of a wide variety of rigging equipment.
• Must have a thorough knowledge of sound practices in rigging techniques, and a practical working knowledge of the operation of various types of overhead cranes, forklifts, trucks, mobile cranes, and similar equipment
• Experience in rigging practices and techniques.
• Must have knowledge of all applicable environmental safety and health rules, procedures and regulations.

Certifications and Licenses:

• Must possess and maintain a valid California Non-commercial Class license.
• Must possess the NCCCO (National Commission for Certification of Crane Operators) certification for Mobile Crane Operator.

SLAC employee competencies:

• Dependability: Can be counted on to deliver results with a sense of personal responsibility for expected outcomes.
• Self-Development: Pursues a variety of venues and opportunities to continue learning and developing.
• Relationships: Builds relationships to foster trust, collaboration, and a positive climate to achieve.
• Communication: Ensures effective information flow to various audiences and creates and delivers clear, appropriate written, spoken, presented messages
• Adaptability: Flexes as needed when change occurs, maintains an open outlook while adjusting and accommodating changes.
• Initiative: Pursues work and interactions proactively with optimism, positive energy, and motivation to move things forward.
• Effective Decisions: Uses job knowledge and solid judgment to make quality decisions in a timely manner.

Physical requirements and Working conditions:

• Consistent with its obligations under the law, the University will provide reasonable accommodation to any employee with a disability who requires accommodation to perform the essential functions of his or her job.
• Given the nature of this position, SLAC will require onsite work.

Work standards:

• Interpersonal Skills: Demonstrates the ability to work well with Stanford colleagues and clients and with external organizations.
• As an organization that receives federal funding, SLAC and Stanford University have a COVID-19 vaccination requirement that will apply to all university employees, including those working remotely in the United States and applicable subcontractors.

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• Classification Title: Rigger Maintenance
• Duration: Regular continuing
• Grade: A35 - Job code: 8620

This position is represented by SEIU Local 2007 and the collective bargaining agreement between the university and SEIU Local 2007 governs the terms and conditions of employment.

The expected pay range for this position is $44.23 (Step 1) - $53.46 (Step 10) per hour. Placement in the range is subject to the applicable Collective Bargaining Unit. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Stanford University provides pay ranges representing its good faith estimate of what the university reasonably expects to pay for a position. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal equity, geographic location and external market pay for comparable jobs.