Managing Director/Senior Lift Planning Consultant at North West Lifting Specialists Ltd (2023-11 – Present)
- Led strategic planning initiatives and business development activities, driving sustainable growth, profitability, and market expansion within the crane hire and contract lifting sector.
- Directed all aspects of health, safety, environmental, and compliance management, ensuring adherence to industry regulations, company standards, and best practice.
- Managed fleet investment, procurement, and maintenance strategies to maximise operational efficiency, utilisation and reliability.
- Oversaw complex contract lifting operations, including lift planning, resource allocation, project execution, and operational risk control.
- Developed and implemented comprehensive risk management frameworks, including insurance programmes and incident prevention strategies.
- Built and maintained strong relationships with key clients and contractors, securing repeat business and long-term strategic partnerships.
- Held full responsibility for financial performance, budgeting, forecasting, cash flow management, and achievement of revenue and profitability targets.
- Recruited, developed, and retained high-performing teams, including crane operators, lift supervisors, appointed persons, and operational management personnel.
- Led tender submissions and major project delivery, ensuring commercially competitive bids, successful contract awards, and safe, efficient project execution.
Crane Coordinator/Lift Supervisor at J. Murphy & Sons Ltd (2023-06 – 2024-03)
- Supervising all crane and crane related personnel various projects.
- Training and developing the Slinger Signallers and Crane Supervisors to a high standard by sharing my own knowledge and experience.
- Using my experience in the industry to create efficiency strategies and tools to streamline tasks and increase productivity.
- Liaising with the Appointed Person and working together to find the safest, most economical and best environmentally conscious path to achieve the project.
- Collaborating closely with project managers, operators, team members and clients to ensure jobs were completed on time, within budget and met all quality standards.
- Ensuring quality assurance of all work scopes are maintained, and all work is performed in accordance with company policies and the Health and Safety at work act.
- Complying with all relevant procedures and deliver high standards of safety performance during all operations.
- Ensuring the smooth delivery of all client related services in a timely manner, meeting and exceeding client's expectations.
- Taking a logical approach, recognising any problems and its type, observing to ensure a clear vision from all angles and finding possible solutions.
Plant Operator/Lift Supervisor at JN Bentley Ltd (2022-06 – 2023-06)
- Supervising a 450-tonne mobile crane during the construction of the final settlement tank at the Mile Oak works.
- Checking and reporting any defects in all lifting accessories.
- Conducting groundworks including deep drainage, pipe laying, concrete finishing, building and benching manholes, hand digging trial holes for ground investigation and much more
- Using location equipment to find and log utility services.
- Working flexibly to accommodate the changing needs of the business, working long hours and taking on additional responsibilities.
- Exhibiting and maintaining excellent working relationships with all staff.
- Using an excellent understanding of industry health, safety and environmental practices and communicating with colleagues, suppliers and customers in a collaborative manner.
- Implementing and supporting effective working practices and systems as required to improve work scope delivery.
- Adapting to changing priorities and timelines in a proactive manner to exceed the clients expectations.
- Working to challenging timelines and have the agility to switch focus when priorities change readily.
Crane Coordinator/Lift Supervisor at Bob Francis Crane Hire (2020-07 – 2022-06)
- Supervising lifting operations for a variety of mobile cranes ranging in size from 30 to 220 tonne.
- Installing and maintaining wind turbine technology, performing blade changes, replacing gearbox's, generators, bearings etc.
- Building and maintaining transformers ranging in size from 2 to 45 tonne, cautiously installing the delicate bushings, pipework and other components.
- Lifting a vast array of machinery from trains, boats, to very fragile components, leaving no margin for error.
- Performing tandem lifts utilising multiple cranes.
- Using a range of lifting accessories from modular lifting beams, remote controlled counterbalance lifting beams, man baskets, chain blocks etc.
- Installing and removing plant or machinery, often using rigging, jacking and skating methods.
- Providing escort duties for heavy cranes and abnormal loads, often through challenging terrain.
- Reading and understanding risk assessments, method statements and identifying additional hazards for the appointed person to create control measures.
- Supporting and improving team performance by sharing knowledge and best practices.
- Responding promptly and effectively to changing circumstances, planning for contingencies and managing priorities.
Tower Crane Erector at JAJ Tower Crane Services (2019-12 – 2020-07)
- Erecting and dismantling various makes and models of tower crane nationwide.
- Working to very tight parameters due to the proximity of airports and railway infrastructure.
- Utilising heavy cranes ranging in size from 300 to 500 tonne.
- Knowledge of risk assessments and safe systems of work, able to interpret and advocate site policies and procedures to other workers with minimum supervision.
Olec 2 Linesman at Vital Rail (2019-08 – 2019-12)
- Constructing and installing overhead line equipment on "the Great Western Electrification Project".
- Installing and tensioning the copper wire using various tensioning and pulling devices.
Lift Supervisor at Lift-Rigg UK (2019-08 – 2019-12)
- Supervising lifting operations for a variety of tower, crawler and mobile cranes ranging in size from 40 to 200 tonne.
- Removing and replacing refrigeration units in bookers distribution in Warrington using rigging and skating method.
- Conducting a vast array of work scopes from removing blast doors in Hanson cement works, to installing glass and cladding on apartment blocks on Manchester University Campus.
Lift Supervisor at RRC & Road Rail Crane Hire Ltd (2019-05 – 2019-08)
- Responsible for general lift supervisor duties, taking the correct lifting equipment to site, siting the crane and having the lift plan activated, closed or arranging to have it altered by the Appointed Person.
- Working on the rail side of the company and worked night shifts trackside, frequently using 2 rail cranes in tandem to lift steel structures into position, ready for the OLE to be installed.
Plant Operator/Lift Supervisor at JN Bentley Ltd (2017-01 – 2019-05)
- Slinging and supervising all lifts, with any cranes that came onto the wastewater treatment works.
- Checking, tagging and reporting any defects in all lifting accessories.
- Typically, lifts were pre-fabricated steel sections, Doka shutter configurations and concrete using a skip.
- Lifting and replacing steel platforms for various structures on the works.
- Using a 35-tonne mobile crane to increase the capacity of the existing storm tank in Llanberis wastewater treatment works.
- Preparing ground and installing ducting and ductile iron pipe work, above and below ground on the Five Fords site.
- Constructing Kinmel Bay inlet works and primary settlement tank, from supervising and slinging for the piling of the ground to lifting the screens onto the finished concrete structure.
Plant Operator/Slinger Signaller at Heeney Civils Ltd, Mersey Gateway (2016-10 – 2017-01)
- Carrying out general slinging duties using various mobile cranes and plant.
- Lifting 80 tonne concrete bridge sections into position using a 500 tonne crawler crane.
- Transportation and placement of eart
