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About the Role

Parsons Corporation is seeking a Lifting Specialist to join our team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position involves planning, coordinating, and supervising all lifting and rigging activities across various projects, ensuring safety and operational compliance within a professional work environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, and supervise lifting and rigging activities across the project.
• Review lifting requirements to determine appropriate cranes, lifting equipment, accessories, and rigging arrangements.
• Prepare and review comprehensive lifting documentation, including lifting plans, critical lift plans, lift studies, method statements, and risk assessments/JSAs.
• Verify crane capacities, load charts, lifting radii, boom configurations, ground conditions, and operational limitations.
• Confirm the weight, dimensions, center of gravity, and lifting points of loads prior to lifting.
• Develop specialized lifting arrangements for heavy, oversized, complex, and critical equipment.
• Review crane positioning, access routes, setup areas, outriggers, mats, and ground bearing requirements, including crane mat assessments.
• Verify that cranes and lifting equipment are suitable for the intended lifting operation.
• Inspect and verify lifting accessories, ensuring they have valid inspection, certification, and testing documentation, such as lifting accessories certificates.
• Conduct pre-lift inspections and verify site readiness before lifting operations commence, utilizing pre-lift checklists.
• Supervise critical lifting operations and ensure compliance with approved lifting plans and lift permits.
• Coordinate with Crane Operators, Riggers, Banksmen, Signalmen, and Construction teams during lifting activities, ensuring clear communication and agreed signaling arrangements.
• Monitor weather, wind, visibility, ground conditions, and other environmental factors affecting lifting safety.
• Stop or suspend lifting operations when unsafe conditions or deviations from approved plans are identified.
• Ensure lifting operations comply with approved Method Statements, Risk Assessments, Permit-to-Work requirements, and project procedures.
• Review and support lifting-related risk assessments and identify appropriate control measures.
• Provide technical guidance to construction teams regarding safe lifting and rigging practices.
• Support the investigation of lifting incidents, near misses, equipment failures, and unsafe conditions.
• Participate in lifting audits, inspections, toolbox talks, and safety briefings.
• Monitor compliance of lifting subcontractors with project requirements and approved procedures, reviewing their submitted lifting plans.
• Maintain records of lifting plans, equipment certificates, inspections, and lifting activities, including lifting equipment registers and post-lift reports.
• Coordinate lifting activities with construction sequencing, logistics, access, temporary works, and site operations, ensuring no conflicts with adjacent activities or critical project interfaces.
• Provide specialist support during installation of major mechanical, electrical, structural, MEP, and infrastructure equipment.
• Support emergency planning and recovery arrangements for lifting operations.
• Promote safe lifting practices and continuous improvement across the project.

Airport and Infrastructure Project Focus

• Support lifting activities associated with airport terminals, airfield infrastructure, utility plants, roads, structures, and external works.
• Plan and supervise lifting of major MEP equipment, chillers, AHUs, generators, transformers, pumps, tanks, structural components, steelwork, and other heavy equipment.
• Provide lifting support for district cooling plant construction and major mechanical equipment installation.
• Coordinate crane operations in restricted areas, congested construction zones, and operational airport environments.
• Assess lifting requirements where access, working space, underground utilities, pavement capacity, or operational restrictions create additional constraints.
• Coordinate lifting activities around existing infrastructure and live operational facilities.
• Support complex lifts involving tandem cranes, heavy lifts, restricted access, or unusual load configurations.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or Diploma in Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Construction, or a related technical discipline is preferred.
• Relevant lifting / rigging certification such as LEEA, CPCS, OPITO, or equivalent is preferred.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in lifting, rigging, crane operations, or construction lifting supervision, with a preference for 5-10 years.
• Proven experience in lifting planning and supervision on major construction, infrastructure, industrial, or airport projects.
• Strong practical knowledge of cranes, lifting equipment, rigging accessories, and lifting operations.
• Experience preparing and reviewing lifting plans and critical lift studies.
• Strong understanding of crane load charts, lifting capacities, radii, boom configurations, and rigging arrangements.
• Knowledge of applicable lifting and rigging standards and recognized industry practices.
• Experience working with heavy equipment installation and complex construction lifts is highly desirable.
• Strong understanding of construction HSE requirements and safe lifting practices.

Work Environment and Commitment

This full-time position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, within a team committed to safety and operational excellence in complex project environments.