Rigging and Millwright Services
Precision Equipment Handling From First Lift to Final Alignment
AK Industrial provides coordinated rigging and millwright services for individual machines, complete production lines, plant relocations, and mission-critical equipment. Our teams support each awarded scope from receiving and offloading through final positioning, mechanical installation, alignment, and anchoring.
Planning, Rigging and Millwright Execution in One Coordinated Scope
Successful equipment projects require more than lifting capacity. They require a clear plan, the right handling method, experienced field leadership, and precise millwright work after the equipment is set.
AK evaluates the equipment, access, site constraints, installation tolerances, and sequencing before mobilization. In the field, our rigging and millwright teams coordinate the awarded scope around OEM requirements, site conditions, and schedule.
Rigging and Millwright Capabilities
Heavy Rigging
Planned lifting and controlled movement for complex industrial equipment.
Machinery Setting
Final positioning, leveling, anchoring, and installation support.
Precision Alignment
Laser alignment and verification to required tolerances.
Mechanical Installation
Assembly, connections, and punch-list support within scope.
Equipment Relocation
Sequenced disassembly, movement, receiving, and reinstallation.
Planning & Coordination
Site review, lift planning, schedule integration, and trade coordination.
What Our Rigging and Millwright Scopes Include
The cards above are the short version. Open either list for the work each scope covers.
Rigging services
- Heavy lifts and machinery setting cranes, hydraulic gantry systems, forklifts and telehandlers, positioned and set to layout under a reviewed lift plan.
- Hydraulic jacking and skating moving loads where a crane cannot reach: under roofs, through doors, across production floors with rated floor loads.
- Below-the-hook lifting devices and certified rigging hardware spreader bars, lifting beams, slings and shackles, inspected and rated for the pick.
- Lift planning and engineered critical lifts every lift planned; critical lifts engineered, reviewed and rehearsed.
- Indoor, restricted-access and elevated installations mezzanines, pits, tight aisles, low headroom, live production on either side.
- Active and mission-critical environments generator sets, transformers, switchgear and UPS in data centers and power facilities, where protecting the existing infrastructure comes first and work runs under site-specific safety, access and lockout or tagout requirements. See data centers.
- Offloading, receiving and staging trailers unloaded, equipment inspected, logged and staged in installation order.
Millwright services
- Mechanical assembly and installation process equipment, pumps, compressors, conveyors, presses, machining centers, material-handling and production machinery, assembled from the crate to the running line.
- Precision laser alignment shaft and coupling alignment of motors, pumps, gearboxes and drives to the manufacturer's tolerance, documented and handed over.
- Leveling, anchoring and grouting base plates, sole plates, anchor bolts, epoxy and cementitious grout, torque verification.
- Bearing installation and shaft work bearings, seals, couplings, sheaves and drive components.
- Welding and fabrication supports, brackets, modifications and base frames, fabricated on site or in advance.
- Disassembly and reinstallation match-marked teardown and rebuild of machinery for relocation or maintenance. See machinery disassembly and reassembly.
- Commissioning support pre-start checks, run-in support alongside the OEM technician, punch-list closure.
How Hiring an AK Crew Works
Scope call
What is moving or being installed, weights and dimensions, where it is, where it is going, when.
Site walk and lift plan
We walk the site, check access, floor loads and overhead clearances, and write the lift plan and the pre-task plan. Critical lifts get an engineered plan.
Mobilization
Crew and equipment arrive on the date in the plan. Urgent scopes are something we handle regularly. Tell us the date and we will tell you what it takes.
Execution under AK supervision and your site rules
Daily pre-task briefings, lockout/tagout, exclusion zones, qualified riggers and signal persons on every pick.
Alignment, anchoring and records
Laser alignment reports, torque and anchor records, and a turnover package before we demobilize.
Where an AK Crew Fits
Direct to the plant owner
a machine move, a line installation, a shutdown scope.
Specialty subcontractor to a general contractor or EPC
the rigging and millwright package on a larger project, coordinated with the other trades.
Installation partner to an OEM
receiving, setting and aligning the OEM's equipment while their technicians handle controls and startup.
Nationwide and in Mexico
crews travel from Searcy, Arkansas and Monterrey, Mexico to the project. See cross-border industrial relocation.
Need the whole scope managed, not just the crew? See industrial equipment installation and plant relocation services.
Selected Project Proof
Rigging and Millwright FAQs
Yes. We regularly supply rigging and millwright crews to owners, general contractors and OEMs who are managing the project themselves. You get AK supervision, AK safety discipline and AK records on your scope.
Yes. Shaft and coupling alignment of motors, pumps, gearboxes and drives to the manufacturer's tolerance, plus machine leveling and geometry checks on machine tools, with the readings documented in the turnover package.
Urgent scopes are a regular part of our work. Tell us the date, the equipment and the site, and we will tell you what it takes to be there. Crews, equipment and the lift plan are mobilized together so the first day on site is productive.
Yes. AK Industrial has an operation in Monterrey, Mexico, and our rigging and millwright crews work on both sides of the border under the same safety program and project leadership.
Need a Crew That Owns the Lift?
Send us the equipment, the weights, the site, and the date. We'll come back with a lift plan, a crew, and a number.
Or email sales@akic.net or call 501-268-7827.