Lifting Expert

SNC-Lavalin; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 460,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tax-free salary

Life insurance

Medical insurance

Annual leave

Gratuity scheme

Discretionary bonus program

Annual flight allowance

Transportation & housing allowances

Employee Wellbeing Program

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis is seeking a Lifting Expert in its Transportation Project Delivery team in Saudi Arabia to contribute to a multi-disciplinary project, coordinating with design, engineering and construction supervision while focusing on safety.

You will review lifting plans, supervise equipment selection and rigging crews, ensure compliance with safety, quality and environmental standards, and coordinate with HSE and PMCM teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in lifting and construction supervision.
• Degree in Engineering or related discipline.
• Professional registration or chartership preferred.
• Experience in KSA or Middle East region is preferred.
• Ability to coordinate with HSE and Construction teams.

Responsibilities

• Review and supervise lifting plans and methods.
• Oversee rigging crews during complex lifts.
• Ensure compliance with safety, quality, and environmental standards.
• Coordinate with HSE Manager and PMCM team.
• Ensure personnel have resources and training for safe operation.

Skills

Lifting equipment knowledge

Health and safety

Project supervision

Team coordination

Attention to detail

Education

Engineering or Construction degree

Professional registration or chartership preferred

Job description

Job Description

Overview

Are you ready to take up a vital role in shaping some of our exciting projects? How about joining our talented team, where everyone has a voice, and together we face our clients' problems head-on. It's a diverse and inclusive work environment where world-class talent knows no distinctions. We are looking for innovative, forward-thinking people who enjoy challenge and actively seek to develop and improve work processes.

Join us as a Lifting Expert in our Transportation Project Delivery team and you will have the opportunity to contribute the delivery of an exciting multi-disciplinary Transportation project. You will collaborate across all stages of the project lifecycle with the Design, Engineering and Construction supervision team and in close coordination with the D&B Contractor overseeing the lifting activities with special emphasis on safety.

With such size, scope and scale, you'll have plenty of opportunities to keep yourself challenged and to grow your technical leadership skills.

Your role

• Review and supervise the Logistic and Construction plans of the D&B Contractor
• Review and supervise the Lifting Plans & Method Statements developed by the Design and Build Contractor.
• Review the design deliverables for constructability.
• Review the risk assessment developed by the DB Contractor related or including lifting activities, assuring those are properly evaluated and adequate mitigation measures are identified.
• Assure the DB Contractor choose suitable lifting equipment (slings, shackles, spreader beams, cranes) based on load, geometry, and environment.
• Carrying out inspection and testing work to industry specifications, whether on site or in workshops of the lifting equipment and tools.
• Assure that the DB Contractor undertakes toolbox talks and lifting safety briefs, addressing safety risks and robust coordination.
• Oversee rigging crews during complex or critical lifts.
• Ensure the lifting activities follow the lifting safety, quality and environmental standards.
• Ensure that personnel have the skills, training and all needed resources, equipment’s and tools to conduct routine maintenance activities in safe and effectively manner, according to the contract terms and conditions.
• Ensure that the PMCM Team, and specially the Construction Supervision Team are well informed of the lifting activities, attend the toolbox talks and safety and lifting safety briefs, and follow the safety rules and procedures while undertaking their supervision duties.
• Coordinate with the HSE Manager and Head of Construction for incorporating the lifting activities to the reporting activities.
• Keep a proactive Safety aptitude and behaviour, and contribute in positive to the a culture of safety.

About you

• Expertise knowledge on lifting equipment and accessories, including mobile cranes, pulling machines, beam trolleys, chain slings, webbing slings and wire rope slings.
• Excellent knowledge of health and safety requirements.
• Passion for machinery and the technical aspects of the industry.
• Able to pick up new systems quickly that may be very technical.
• High level of organisation and commitment to your work.
• Good knowledge of inspection and testing techniques with regard to different types of lifting equipment.
• Good understanding of general engineering.
• Experience of carrying out method statements and risk assessments.
• Excellent personal organisational skills and team work.
• Attention to detail and accuracy when completing inspection and examination testing paperwork.
• Used to work in a fast-paced office environment combining construction supervision works and administration work.
• Open to adapt to flexible working hours arrangements.
• Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or a related discipline supporting the required duties, with a minimum of 8 years of experience. Professional registration or chartership preferred (PMP, RICS, PE, CEng, or equivalent) will be considered a plus
• Experience working in the KSA or wider Middle East region is preferred.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career.

This includes:

• Tax-free salary.
• Life insurance coverage.
• Medical insurance.
• Annual leave balance.
• Company gratuity scheme.
• Discretionary bonus program.
• Annual flight contribution.
• Transportation & housing allowances.
• Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.

Seize every opportunity to sharpen your skills, expand your expertise, and be recognized for the impact you make.

About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.