Crane/lifting Supervisor

**LIFTING/CRANE SUPERVISOR**

**Company Description **: Fortel is the largest Midlands based supplier of agency labour to the UK construction industry, providing contractors with pre-briefed, compliant teams formed of trusted and skilled workers for construction and key infrastructure projects.

**Role Outline **: The job of a Crane Supervisor is one of the most important jobs on a building site. It requires skill, diligence, and concentration, working alongside the lifting teams to provide safe direction and supervision to the crane operators. Their main responsibility is to ensure the safety of the operators, and any other workers or site visitors that could be at risk.

**Skills and attributes desirable**:

- Abide on duty stipulated in workplace safety and health (operation of cranes) Workplace Safety and Health (General Provisions) Regulations and other relevant subsidiary legislations.
- Plan, coordinate and supervise all lifting activities in the project.
- Perform daily inspection on all mobile cranes, crawler crane and electrical power driven (pendant control) overhead cranes used in the project
- Ensure that the operators of mobile crawler cranes conduct pre-operation check using company prescribed checklist.
- Perform daily toolbox talk to the crane operators and the riggers cum signalmen.
- Participate in RA Meetings on Lifting Operations and brief the RA to the lifting team.
- Ensure that only registered crane operators, appointed riggers cum signalmen engage in any lifting operation involving the use of a mobile/ crawler crane
- Ensure that the ground conditions are safe for any lifting operation to be performed by any mobile I crawler crane
- Brief all crane operators, riggers cum signalmen on the safe lifting procedures mentioned in company safe work procedure.
- Check the load and riggings to ensure that the load can be lifted and moved safely by any mobile/ crawler crane or tower crane.
- Forthwith stop any lifting operation upon receiving any report on defect or malfunction of safety device of the mobile crane or tower crane, thereafter tag-out the affected mobile crane or tower crane and report to Senior Construction Manager accordingly
- Driving license (desirable but not essential)

**Job Types**: Full-time, Temporary contract

**Salary**: £24.04 per hour

Expected hours: 47.5 - 50 per week

Schedule:

- 10 hour shift

**Experience**:

- lifting supervisor: 1 year (required)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (preferred)
- CPCS Blue Competent Operator Card (required)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 10/03/2024
Expected start date: 26/02/2024