Job Summary
Join our dynamic team in Sunnyvale, CA, a vibrant city known for its innovation and proximity to Silicon Valley. As a Heavy Equipment & Rigging Specialist, you will play a critical role in supporting our manufacturing operations, ensuring safety, efficiency, and quality in equipment handling and material movement.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Follow applicable safety procedures, codes, standards, and company guidelines.
- Support daily manufacturing operations, including production builds, equipment movement, material handling, staging, inspection, testing, and documentation.
- Use routine and non-standard work orders, written instructions, verbal instructions, specifications, diagrams, manuals, and other documentation.
- Operate manufacturing tools and equipment to perform assembly operations.
- Operate or support forklifts, pallet jacks, ergonomic lift-assist devices, hoists, cranes, rigging equipment, and other industrial material-handling equipment.
- Perform rigging, signaling, load securement, and lift-support activities for machinery, oversized components, production materials, and shipping containers.
- Plan, stage, and execute equipment moves by identifying lifting points, rigging methods, travel paths, hazards, and exclusion zones.
- Inspect rigging, lifting accessories, equipment, and material-handling tools before use and escalate concerns immediately.
- Train and mentor operators and technicians on safe equipment operation, load handling, rigging practices, material movement procedures, and job-site safety expectations.
- Support loading, rigging, blocking, bracing, and securement of modules and large equipment onto lowboy trailers for transport.
- Identify and escalate non-conformances, quality issues, equipment concerns, transport securement concerns, or safety risks to the appropriate support team.
- Participate in continuous improvement efforts to improve safety, quality, efficiency, and repeatability.
- Maintain a clean, organized, and safe work area.
Key Qualifications
- Associate degree or equivalent work experience, including military experience.
- 5 years of experience in manufacturing, industrial production, construction, port, logistics, heavy equipment, or equivalent military environment.
- Experience operating industrial lifting, material-handling, or heavy equipment in a production or field environment.
- Experience with rigging, signaling, load securement, lift planning, and safe movement of machinery, oversized loads, or shipping containers.
- Experience working around cranes, hoists, forklifts, pallet jacks, lift-assist devices, and other material-handling equipment.
- Demonstrated ability to train or mentor operators and technicians on safe equipment operation, rigging practices, load handling, and material movement procedures.
- Ability to read and interpret specifications, diagrams, manuals, work instructions, lift plans, equipment documentation, and safety procedures.
- Strong understanding of heavy equipment safety, lifting operations, exclusion zones, load paths, and job-site hazard controls.
- Experience supporting transport preparation, including rigging, loading, blocking, bracing, and securing large equipment or oversized loads onto trailers.
- Must be able to lift at least 40 lbs and work with heavy equipment, tools, supplies, and production materials.
- Able to work around fixed equipment and machinery, including using lifts, ladders, and scaffolding.
- Must wear and work in required personal protective equipment.
- Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
Additional Qualifications Desired
- Experience operating Combilift Hydraulic Straddle Carrier and Shuttlelift Gantry Crane handling loads ranging from 5 to 75 tons in a manufacturing or industrial production environment.
- Experience developing, supporting, or following lift plans, rigging plans, job hazard analyses, cargo securement plans, or equipment movement procedures.
- Experience training or mentoring operators, technicians, or production personnel on safe equipment operation, rigging, signaling, load handling, transport securement, and lift planning.
- Ability to utilize ladders or other high structures to work at heights of ten feet or higher.
- Familiarity with cargo securement expectations for oversized loads, lowboy trailer transport, chains, binders, blocking, bracing, and working load limits.
Shift Details
Looking for First and Swing shift team members.
Benefits
PEAK's benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, Flexible Spending Account (FSA), Dependent Care Savings Account (DCA), and 401K plan. PEAK believes that taking care of our team is essential for success and we are proud to provide benefits that enhance both your well-being and your future. Additionally, our associates may be eligible for Paid Sick Leave as required by Federal, State, or local laws.
Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO)
PEAK Technical Staffing is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. PEAK does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. All employment decisions are made based on qualifications, merit, and business need. We encourage all individuals to apply.
Americans Disabilities Act (ADA)
The physical and mental requirements described in this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Must be able to perform the essential physical functions of the position, including sitting, standing, walking, stooping, kneeling, and lifting up to 25 pounds, with or without reasonable accommodation.
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