Specialist lifting Engineer

Role purpose

Lifting plans and technical assurance

• Review and approve contractor lifting plans, rigging studies, method statements, risk assessments, JSAs, and lifting procedures.
• Provide technical input for critical, heavy, tandem, engineered, and complex lifts; ensure lifting studies use appropriate safety factors.
• Review crane selection and configuration, capacity, load charts, lifting radius, boom length, counterweights, ground bearing pressure, outrigger loads, and crane positioning.
• Verify load weight, centre of gravity, sling angles and tensions, lifting points, spreader beams, shackles, and rigging arrangements.
• Review lifting requirements during engineering and construction planning and identify constraints early.

Equipment, site safety, and execution

• Verify inspection status, certification, suitability, maintenance, colour coding, and traceability of cranes, lifting equipment, accessories, and rigging gear.
• Verify competency, certification, and authorization of crane operators, riggers, banksmen or signalmen, lifting supervisors, appointed persons, and other lifting personnel.
• Participate in pre-lift meetings, toolbox talks, constructability reviews, SIMOPS reviews, and JSA sessions for critical lifts.
• Inspect and audit site lifting activities, identify unsafe conditions or deviations, and control lifting zones, crane access, ground preparation, outriggers, and lifting paths.
• Monitor lifts involving vessels, columns, tanks, modules, structural steel, piping, rotating equipment, transformers, and packaged equipment.
• Support equipment erection, module installation, shutdowns, turnarounds, and major construction lifting; coordinate with construction, HSE, engineering, logistics, marine, and project controls teams.

Management and records

• Monitor compliance with the project's Lifting Equipment Management System or equivalent procedure.
• Participate in investigations of lifting incidents, near misses, dropped-object events, and equipment failures; recommend corrective and preventive actions.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to lifting supervisors, rigging teams, and construction personnel, and support resolution of technical and HSE issues.
• Maintain lifting review, inspection, audit, observation, certification, and corrective-action records; communicate lessons learned and best practices.

Qualifications and project experience

• Bachelor's degree in relevant engineering or equivalent from an accredited university.
• Minimum 15 years of relevant Oil & Gas or Petrochemical experience; the posting also specifies 10–15 years in a separate experience section.
• At least five years in a similar role on mega Oil & Gas or Petrochemical projects.
• ADNOC, offshore, PMC, FEED, and EPC experience are required.
• Experience with crane assembly and disassembly and actual heavy-lifting installation is required.
• Previous ADNOC or similar major Middle East Oil & Gas project experience is highly preferred.

Technical competencies

• Strong knowledge of crane load charts and configuration, rigging and sling tension calculations, centre of gravity, load distribution, lifting points, ground bearing pressure, outrigger loading, crane stability, and lifting radius.
• Knowledge of heavy and critical lift methods, tandem and multiple-crane operations, lifting beams, spreader beams, shackles, slings, and lifting equipment inspection and certification.
• Knowledge of dropped-object prevention, SIMOPS, lifting risk management, PTW, JSA/TRA, toolbox talks, and HSE management systems.
• Knowledge of BS 7121, LOLER, PUWER, ASME B30 series, ISO standards, and applicable ADNOC requirements.
• Ability to use AutoCAD for quick lifting sketches and checks, develop lifting studies and methodologies, and prepare preliminary rigging arrangements and tackle calculations.
• Experience with mobile, crawler, and tower cranes, gantry systems, strand jacks, and other heavy-lifting systems is described as practical experience; onshore or offshore lifting experience is advantageous.