General Laborer - Austin, Texas

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

MEI Rigging & Crating LLC is looking for strong, dependable, and eager to learn individuals to join our team.  We are a professional machinery moving company and our work focus is serving our customers at the highest level with quality employees who are motived to learn, grow, and have the ability to look ahead to the next task.

MEI is known in the industry for our best-in-class service, professionalism, safety focus, quality methods, and our skilled teams!  Is that you? Are you mechanically inclined?  Do you know how to read a tape measure? Do you have experience using hand and power tools? Have you operated a Warehouse Forklift, Telehandler, Sky Trak, or other equipment? Or do you have a background in construction?

If so, we have a great team willing to guide and train if you are willing to learn.

• Must be 18 years of age
• Ability to lift 50lbs or more
• General labor experience preferred; commercial construction experience is a plus.
• Experience using hand and power tools; previous experience using forklifts and other construction experience is a plus
• Punctuality, dependability, and strong work ethic are an absolute must.
• Willing to train.
• Signal or verbally direct workers engaged in hoisting and moving loads, in order to ensure safety of workers and materials
• Test rigging to ensure safety and reliability
• Attach loads to rigging to provide support or prepare them for moving, using hand and power tools. 
• Select gear such as cables, pulleys, and winches, according to load weights and sizes, facilities, and work schedules. 
• Control movement of heavy equipment through narrow openings or confined spaces, using chain falls, gin poles, gallows frames, and other equipment.
• Tilt, dip, and turn suspended loads to maneuver over, under, and/or around obstacles, using multi-point suspension techniques.
• Align, level, and anchor machinery. 
• Manipulate rigging lines, hoists, and pulling gear to move or support materials such as heavy equipment. 
• Attach pulleys and blocks to fixed overhead structures such as beams, ceilings, using bolts and clamps.
• Dismantle and store rigging equipment after use.
• Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment - Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles.
• Controlling Machines and Processes - Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles
• There many be occasional regional travel