Lifting Manager
On-siteFarciennes, Wallonia, Belgium
Job Summary
Lead and oversee all lifting operations on site, ensuring safe, efficient, and compliant execution across all project phases. Coordinate intensively with the contractor's Virtual Design & Construction team to integrate lifting activities into overall field coordination and sequencing. Develop comprehensive lifting plans, crane studies, rigging strategies, and installation methodologies aligned with the project schedule. Produce and maintain detailed documentation, updating and distributing them regularly in collaboration with subcontractors. Interface with the Owner Furnished Equipment manager to plan and execute lifting operations for client-provided equipment. Ensure all subcontractors adhere to approved lifting plans, method statements, and relevant safety and quality documentation. Monitor compliance with local regulations, site safety standards, and best practices related to crane usage, rigging, and heavy transport.
Required Qualifications
- +10years' experience as a Lifting Manager, Lifting Supervisor, or Lifting Director on large-scale construction projects
- proven experience delivering complex lifting operations on 5+ ground-up data centres or other technically intensive facilities
- deep expertise in crane operations, rigging plans, heavy lifts, and coordinating subcontractors within hyperscale data centre environments
- experience and provide references from large data centre projects, ideally with hyperscale clients
- strong ability to build positive, productive relationships with client teams, vendors, and subcontractors
- Thrive in fast-paced environments and can make safe, strategic decisions quickly under pressure
- Hold a degree in engineering or a related field
- strong technical knowledge of engineering drawings, lift plans, load calculations, crane charts, and specifications related to lifting operations
- computer literate, with solid experience using Excel, Word, and other planning or engineering tools
- excellent English communication, coordination, and organizational skills
Desired Qualifications
- degree in engineering or a related field (preferred)
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