Lifting Manager

Overview

As a Lifting Manager at Linesight, you will work directly with the Construction Manager and subcontractors, ensuring all lifting operations are properly planned, coordinated, and executed. You will be accountable for overseeing lifting strategies, crane operations, and rigging plans, ensuring all work is delivered in strict compliance with contract documents. This role focuses on managing lifting logistics and critical lift activities for a complex data centre project within a client-side PMC structure, from design through to commissioning.

The Opportunity

In this role you will: 

• Lead and oversee all lifting operations on site, ensuring safe, efficient, and compliant execution across all project phases.
• Work closely with the Construction Manager to facilitate problem solving and lifting logistics planning between Civil, Structural, Architectural, Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing subcontractors.
• Coordinate intensively with the contractor’s Virtual Design & Construction (VDC) team to integrate lifting activities into overall field coordination and sequencing.
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of contract documents (drawings and specifications) to create detailed lifting plans, crane studies, rigging strategies, and installation methodologies aligned with the project schedule.
• Lead lifting and logistics coordination meetings, ensuring all lifting plans, risk assessments, and method statements are clearly communicated and documented.
• Produce and maintain detailed lifting plans and methodologies, updating and distributing them regularly in collaboration with the Construction Manager and subcontractors.
• Interface with the Owner Furnished Equipment (OFE) manager to plan and execute lifting operations for client-provided equipment, ensuring safe delivery, positioning, and installation.
• 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 lifting operations, including crane usage, rigging, and heavy transport.

We would love to hear from you if you: 

• Have +10years’ experience as a Lifting Manager, Lifting Supervisor, or Lifting Director on large-scale construction projects.
• Have proven experience delivering complex lifting operations on 5+ ground-up data centres or other technically intensive facilities.
• Possess deep expertise in crane operations, rigging plans, heavy lifts, and coordinating subcontractors within hyperscale data centre environments.
• Can demonstrate experience and provide references from large data centre projects, ideally with hyperscale clients.
• Have a 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 (preferred).
• Have strong technical knowledge of engineering drawings, lift plans, load calculations, crane charts, and specifications related to lifting operations.
• Are computer literate, with solid experience using Excel, Word, and other planning or engineering tools.
• Have excellent English communication, coordination, and organizational skills.

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About us

Linesight is a highly successful global project and cost management consultancy that keeps clients coming back. And for that we have our people to thank. You see we’re not like the others. We’re different. Unique. It’s our fresh thinking and focus on what matters that has led to our evolving. We are on a journey working in some of the most exciting innovative sectors with some of the world’s most prestigious companies delivering major projects that deliver a more sustainable built environment. We have an open culture and a flat structure where you can expect to be treated with genuine care, respect, and empathy. With Linesight, you can truly discover the power of team!

Diversity, inclusion and accessibility   

Linesight is committed to transparent, equal opportunity employment practices. We are building a diverse and inclusive organisation, accessible to all, based on having a safe culture which enables all our people to be their true selves. We are a people business, and we understand that the more inclusive we are, the happier our people and better our work will be. We will ensure that individuals with disability are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or recruitment process and are accommodated in the workplace. If you require assistance or accommodation of any kind, please mention this in your application, we would love to hear from you!