Rigger (Underground Mining)

**Job Overview**:
**Date Posted**: Posted 11 hours ago-
**Location**: Nelspruit, Mpumalanga-
**Job Title**: Rigger (Underground Mining)-
**Education Level**: Certificate-
**Job Level**: Senior-
**Minimum Experience**: 5- 7 Years**Rigger (Underground Mining) position available in Mpumalanga,**:
Opportunity for a qualified (S13 or S26D) Rigger with underground winder experience. Engaged in lifting, moving, transporting, positioning, pulling, and securing heavy equipment, machines, and oversized loads.

The role is open to South african citizens only.

**Minimum Requirements**:

- Grade 12 Certificate
- N2 Certificate
- Qualified with trade papers section 13 or 26D
- Code 8 Drivers License
- At least 5 years Rigger experience with winder steel wire ropes
- Own Transport as position requires standby
- Valid certificate of physical fitness
- Ability to read and write in English
- Be able to work shifts and call outs

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Aligns, levels, and anchors machinery
- Attaches loads to rigging to provide support or prepare them for moving, using hand and power tools
- Attaches pulleys and blocks to fixed overhead structures such as beams, ceilings, and gin pole booms, using bolts and clamps
- Controls movement of heavy equipment through narrow openings or confined spaces, using chain falls, gin poles, gallows frames, and other equipment
- Dismantles and stores rigging equipment after use
- Fabricates, sets up, and repairs rigging, supports structures, hoists, and pulls gear, uses hand and power tools
- Manipulates rigging lines, hoists, and pulling gear to move or support materials such as heavy equipment, ships, or theatrical sets
- Select gear such as cables, pulleys, and winches, according to load weights and sizes, facilities, and work schedules
- Signals or verbally directs workers engaged in hoisting and moving loads, to ensure the safety of workers and materials