Lifting Specialist - Crane and Rigging

Lifting Specialist
- Crane and Rigging Job Snapshot Role:
Lifting Specialist
- Crane and Rigging

Location:

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Industry: Construction Function:
Safety

Experience:

Minimum 5 years Job Type: Full-time

Position Overview Lifting Specialist
- Crane and Rigging in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a specialized Construction opportunity with Parsons Corporation focused on safe planning, technical assessment, and field supervision of crane, lifting, and rigging operations. The role is hiring an experienced lifting professional to manage critical lifts, crane configurations, rigging arrangements, ground conditions, equipment certification, risk controls, and heavy equipment installation across airport, airfield, infrastructure, MEP, structural, and district cooling construction activities.

Job Details Country:
Saudi Arabia City:
Riyadh Industry: Construction Function:
Safety Salary:  Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer. Gender: Any Candidate Nationality:
Any Job Type: Full-time

Role Context The Lifting Specialist provides the technical and field controls needed to execute routine, heavy, complex, and critical lifting operations safely. The position connects engineering calculations and lift planning with actual site conditions, ensuring crane capacity, rigging configuration, load characteristics, ground bearing capacity, access, weather, and surrounding construction interfaces are understood before a lift begins. This specialist has direct authority to challenge unsafe arrangements and suspend operations when site conditions depart from approved plans.

• Plan, coordinate, and supervise crane, lifting, and rigging activities across active construction areas.
• Develop and review lifting plans, critical lift plans, rigging studies, Method Statements, Job Safety Analyses, and risk assessments.
• Select appropriate cranes and lifting arrangements based on load characteristics, working radius, required capacity, access, and site constraints.
• Review crane load charts, boom configurations, lifting radii, operational limits, and capacity utilization before approving proposed operations.
• Confirm load weight, dimensions, center of gravity, lifting points, orientation, and handling requirements.
• Engineer practical arrangements for heavy, oversized, unusual, tandem, and other complex lifting operations.
• Assess crane positioning, access routes, working areas, outrigger locations, crane mats, and ground bearing requirements.
• Consider underground utilities, pavement capacity, excavations, structures, and other conditions that could affect crane stability.
• Verify cranes and lifting equipment are appropriate, inspected, certified, and fit for the planned operation.
• Inspect slings, shackles, chains, hooks, lifting beams, spreader beams, and other rigging accessories before use.
• Maintain oversight of equipment certification, inspection status, test documentation, and lifting registers.
• Conduct pre-lift inspections and confirm personnel, equipment, exclusion zones, permits, communications, and site conditions are ready.
• Supervise critical lifting operations and verify continuous compliance with the approved lift plan.
• Coordinate Crane Operators, Riggers, Banksmen, Signalmen, Supervisors, and construction personnel during execution.
• Establish clear signaling and communication arrangements before lifting activities commence.
• Monitor wind, weather, visibility, ground stability, access conditions, and other environmental factors that can influence lifting safety.
• Stop or suspend a lifting operation where unsafe conditions, equipment problems, communication failures, or deviations from the approved plan are identified.
• Verify compliance with Permit-to-Work controls, Method Statements, risk assessments, project procedures, and HSE requirements.
• Provide specialist advice to construction teams on rigging techniques, crane operations, load handling, and lifting risk controls.
• Review subcontractor lifting plans and challenge inadequate calculations, configurations, controls, or supporting documentation.
• Monitor lifting subcontractor performance and compliance…