Lifting & Rigging Specialist

About you:
**Join us. Unleash your energy within.**

If you have world class ambitions to reach the stars while keeping your feet on the ground, we’re the team for you. We've created a new breed of company - future focused with reimagined ambition across all disciplines within the energy sector. We respect heritage, talent, hard work and ambition and can offer an environment of truthfulness, optimism, professionalism, and warmth. Are you ready?

Our values:
At Kent, we are driven by the energy within every member of our 10,000-strong team. Whatever our skill, our language, or our culture. We employ and empower the best and let them make decisions. Our values define and drive us every day to be the very best - for ourselves, our clients, our key stakeholders, the communities we operate in and the planet.

Our vision for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging:
We recognise that diversity & inclusion are catalysts for success. We’re heightening awareness on the benefits of people diversity, diversity of experiences and diversity of our perspectives. Creating a culture of inclusivity where all employees feel a sense of belonging.

Our combined energy is fueled by different nationalities, across 6 continents and 24 countries. Our commitment is to celebrate character - no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability.

Your responsibilities:
**Key Aims & Objectives**:

- Ensure all Project / Company HSEQ goals are achieved and where possible exceeded.
- Ensure all Lifting and Rigging personnel are aware of safe working practices / procedures and are provided with a safe working environment.
- Effective liaison with any Client and / or Sub-Contractor / Vendor representatives.
- Deliver a high standard Lifting and Rigging service to the Project, ensuring a consistent and efficient approach is implemented at all times.
- Implement a continuous improvement philosophy across all Lifting and Rigging activities, delivering best practices at all times.
- Manage, support, and develop Lifting and Rigging personnel.

**Prime responsibilities and duties**:

- Plan, supervise and support day-to-day Lifting and Rigging activities / personnel in the safe and structured delivery of the work scope and processes, ensuring all applicable site / Project safety procedures are fully and properly implemented.
- Ensure Lifting and Rigging personnel are competent and possess the required skills - liaise with the Project Safety Representatives to ensure that all personnel have been adequately trained.
- Actively participate in all Company and Project safety initiatives.
- Providing the assurance through technical audit that the management, control, and execution of lifting operations are in compliance with the Statutory Regulations, the Clients Lifting Standards and procedures, and where applicable, the Corporate Lifting standards.
- Ensure that all necessary regimes, standards, processes, and procedures for the activities associated with lifting and moving of loads are established and are being suitably applied to provide assurance that all lifting operations are properly planned by competent people, risk assessed, appropriately supervised, and completed within the boundaries of a safe system of work.
- Provide technical guidance and support to the site Lifting and Rigging Team to ensure all lifting operations are implemented safely and efficiently.
- Custodian for the management of change process for lift plans, ensuring all changes to lift plans are formally documented, evaluated and where applicable endorsed by the appropriate technical authority(s). All changes to lift plan must be endorsed by the Appointed Person.
- Review and endorse all lift plans developed by the site / Project rigging function and those of 3rd party contractors and Specialist Sub-Contractors / Vendors.
- Review / approve any Sub-Contractor / Vendor lift plans and risk assessments.
- Liaise with Construction Engineers to identify Site Queries.
- Develop and submit Construction activity permitry, lift plans, method statements and risk assessments in line with client gate criteria procedures / schedule.
- Ensure that all Lifting and Rigging work is to the required standard and that all drawings, specifications, inspections and certifications and Company systems of quality assurance are strictly adhered to and assist the Project quality team in the completion of site system test sheets and the test dossier.
- Supervise / conduct tool-box-talks.
- Monitor and report progress on a regular basis - daily / weekly / monthly.
- Liaise with site Control of Work personnel to ensure daily work permits are issued and any issues are resolved.
- Monitor barrier management and ensure barrier owners adhere to site / Project barrier procedures.
- Liaise with Project personnel to identify and deliver early Construction / Commissioning /Project gains.
- Liaise with Client representatives to ensure, where applicable / required, Construction data/ servi