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797A NAMTS Rigger/Weight Tester

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Overview

A NAMTS rigger and weight tester performs intermediate-level repairs on rigging equipment and provides general rigging and manufacturing services. The technician weight tests equipment, fixtures, ladders, handrails, and elevators while applying repair procedures, maintenance standards, quality assurance specifications, and proper industrial machinery practices.

Core Skills

  • Intermediate-level rigging equipment repair
  • Weight testing of fixtures and elevators
  • Repair standards and quality assurance
  • Maintenance industrial machinery operation

Civilian Career Paths

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Riggers

Military rigging services, rigging equipment repair, and weight testing directly support civilian rigging and safety testing.

How to prepare: Take a hands-on civilian rigging course focused on gear selection by load weight and size and safe load movement.

What the civilian work involves
  • Test rigging to ensure safety and reliability.
  • Select gear, such as cables, pulleys, and winches, according to load weights and sizes, facilities, and work schedules.
  • Signal or verbally direct workers engaged in hoisting and moving loads to ensure safety of workers and materials.

Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers

Military weight testing of equipment and fixtures, supported by knowledge of maintenance standards and quality assurance specifications, transfers to industrial inspection and testing.

How to prepare: Complete a hands-on dimensional inspection course using calipers, gauges, and micrometers to check products against specifications.

What the civilian work involves
  • Inspect, test, or measure materials, products, installations, or work for conformance to specifications.
  • Measure dimensions of products to verify conformance to specifications, using measuring instruments, such as rulers, calipers, gauges, or micrometers.
  • Discard or reject products, materials, or equipment not meeting specifications.

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC 797A

    [1] NEC entry "797A - NAMTS Rigger/Weight Tester"; cached text line 19482; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Intermediate-level rigging equipment repair, Weight testing of fixtures and elevators, Repair standards and quality assurance, Maintenance industrial machinery operation, Riggers (O*NET 49-9096.00), Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers (O*NET 51-9061.00)

  2. O*NET: Riggers

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Riggers (O*NET 49-9096.00)

  3. O*NET: Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers (O*NET 51-9061.00)

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