Slinger
Contract
3 months+
Location - Rosyth, Fife
Rates - £17.25 PAYE + Overtime rates
Travel allowance for candidates 35 miles+ from site (£45 per day over 5)
Basic 36 hours per week
Our client, an innovative and successful Marine support engineering business is seeking to hire a skilled Slinger for their site in Rosyth.
Baseline security clearance and Disclosure Scotland will be required to work within the site.
Key Experience and qualifications:
- Experience in slinging / rigging with the use of a range of equipment. (Plate / bulbar / beam clamps, magnets, vacuums etc.)
- Recognised slinger signaller qualification - Min NVQ2 or equivalent.
- Recognised rigger / fleeting qualification desirable.
- Forklift / side loader driving certificates
- OHT Crane Certificates (Desirable but not essential)
- MEWPS Training, IPAF (Desirable but not essential)
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lifting & turning of plates, units & equipment.
- Daily routine maintenance checks including pre / post use checks of lifting equipment.
- General slinging, fleeting & transportation tasks.
- Forklift / sideloader / telehandler / SPMT operations. Training will be provided where necessary.
- Operation of MEWPS.
- Working at height using harnesses and specific working at height equipment.
- Operation of overhead cranes.
- Assist with planning and organising operational activities, liaising with relevant centres and sub-contractors where necessary.
- Carry out operations in line with daily plans.
- Identification and coordination of equipment and resource requirements.
- Ability to understand & read drawings relating to lifting, turning and transport operations.
- Efficiently utilise team members in execution of contracted work, ensuring start/stop times, attendance standards, behaviour standards are maintained at all times.
- Ensure that safe working practices and the working environment is in accordance with the Company policy and legislation requirements.
- Liaise & work with internal and external customers to ensure customer satisfaction.
- Promote and encourage ownership and accountability for all team members within their areas of responsibility.
- Take ownership of activities/processes within Lifting Services remit.
- Be proactive in providing solutions.
- Ensure safe working practices adhered to at all times under "safety first" culture.
- Undertake training as and when required to fulfil requirements of the role.
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment