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Job Title:   Lifting Specialist

Organisation: Sinopec (Uganda)

Duty Station: Initially start from Kampala Office and mainly on project sites (Buliisa & Nwoya)

On-boarding Date: 1 May, 2022

About US:

Sinopec International Petroleum Service Corporation (Sinopec Service) is a fully owned subsidiary of Sinopec Group, which ranks No. 2 in Global Fortune 500 in 2020. Sinopec Service is engaged in the provision of all project phases service for various sectors, including oil & gas, power, buildings, roads and bridges etc. We are looking for Construction and Project support personnel.

Job Summary:  The Lifting Specialist will assist the Lifting Expert, in particular by ensuring the respect of rules in daily lifting Operations.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Verify competence of lifting personnel
• Participate in the JRAs for critical lifting operations
• Perform, or makes perform by a competent person, TBTs prior to the beginning of each working shift or when critical lifts are being carried out.
• Develop and keep up to date specific site lifting procedures.
• Advise the Project Owner upon mitigation measures to be put in place for reducing lifting operation risk.
• Assist the lifting expert during assessment of personnel competence to carry out lifting Operations.
• Coaches and mentors onsite personnel involved in lifting operations.
• Carryout post job de-briefs if any learning points.
• Do periodic audits and reviews of non-critical and critical lifting plans.
• Organize periodic internal audits for project equipment in collaboration with Maintenance and Inspection team
• Be the focal point of authority for the safety and technical aspects of the lifting operations.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree with minimum three years of similar working experience
• Proficient in English Language and office software
• Be familiar with construction standards.
• Successful candidates with relevant experience and recognized expertise in large onshore/offshore oil and gas EPC projects will be preferred.
• The working environment is multicultural and demands considerable experience in the project process working with International Clients and Contractors.
• Strong communication skills, fluent spoken and written English, and Chinese competency will be a plus.

How to Apply:

All candidates should merge their applications into one single pdf document to hrsinopec.ug@outlook.com with file name format as “position+major+name”. Only candidates who been deemed to have fully met the requirements of the roles will be contacted for interviews.

NB: If you have not been contacted directly within two weeks of your application, then you have not been successful. In support of our commitment to the development of the local community, Ugandan national applicants will be given priority.

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