Also called: Machinery Rigger, Industrial Rigging Technician
Moves giant factory machines, MRI scanners and printing presses in and out of buildings using jacks, rollers and gantry cranes.
You need to move a 40-ton printing press through a doorway with an inch to spare. Your crew jacks it up, slides it onto skates, and inches it across the floor, then levels it so precisely the factory can start it up the next day.
Estimated; union millwright riggers earn more.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Apprenticeship, about 3 years after high school. Millwright or rigging apprenticeship, or on-the-job training.
Ways in: Apprenticeship, On-the-job training, Certification. Training cost: Get paid while you train.
Majors to look at: Industrial Maintenance Technology, Millwright (apprenticeship).
Growing about average. Factories, labs and hospitals constantly add and move equipment.
Low risk for 10 years. Planning software helps, but moving 40-ton machines through tight doors stays human.
Classes: Physics, Shop, Geometry.
Official data: O*NET occupation 49-9044.
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