Mahmoud Zakaria
Sydney,NSW
Summary
Experienced and highly skilled Heavy Lifting Engineer with over 20+ years in planning, supervising, and executing complex lifting operations across construction, oil & gas, and infrastructure sectors. Adept in using advanced lifting equipment, preparing lift plans, and ensuring full compliance with safety regulations. Proven ability to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-risk lifts on time and within budget.
Encouraging manager and analytical problem-solver with talents for team building, leading and motivating, as well as excellent customer relations aptitude and relationship-building skills. Proficient in using independent decision-making skills and sound judgment to positively impact company success. Dedicated to applying training, monitoring and morale-building abilities to enhance employee engagement and boost performance.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Operation Manager
BigLift Cranes
06.2021 - Current
- Ensure all service works (workshop and field) are completed in a timely efficient manner, documented accurately, to required specifications.
- Facilitate regular workshop and toolbox team meetings, document and address issues as they arise and review for effectiveness reporting.
- Inspect all cranes to make sure that they are all fully functioning and responsible to bring any failed crane back to operation within minimum downtime and optimal costs to resume working.
- Report quality issues and customer feedback.
- Provide high-level customer service.
- Manage the identification and mitigation of hazards, reporting and investigation of incidents.
- Ensure workplace health and safety improvement initiatives are identified and delivered, leading to improvements in health and safety performance.
Field Service Technician
Manitowoc Cranes Group Australia
03.2020 - 09.2020
- Maintenance of mechanical, hydraulic, electrical & pneumatic systems for cranes.
- Inspect all cranes to make sure that they are all fully functioning and responsible to bring any failed equipment back to operation within minimum downtime and optimal costs to resume working.
- Expand and maintain customer relationships in the field
- Major and minor services
- Ensure workplace health and safety improvement initiatives are identified and delivered, leading to improvements in health and safety performance.
Maintenance and Operation Manager
Saudi Crane Services Ltd
01.2012 - 09.2019
- Undertake rigging studies, inclusive of crane requirements, loads calculations, Interpretation of crane load charts and technically evaluate all lifting plans and activities.
- Create and review Method Statements, Risk Assessment and Job Safety Analysis plans. Works in line with company HSE Policy, ensures Contractors subordinates are aware of, and comply with HSE procedures, rules and regulations for Rigging / Lifting activities, Crane selection & capacity.
- Responsible for the assessment of heavy/critical lifting operations to ensure that planning, selection of cranes heavy lifting/ multi lifting, experience with various crane types and lifting equipment and accessories, instruction and supervision as necessary is in place to enable the lifting task to be safely executed.
- Monitor the lifting operations to ensure that they are being carried out in accordance with the approved rigging study, established work method statement, risk and job safety analysis, including revising and re-approval of any changes to the working documents.
- Co-ordinate with the maintenance/ project teams for lifting operations, transportation, erection and all site activities.
- Deliver presentation to site to demonstrate how the lifting plans are to be used. Monitor the sub-contractors task instruction/ Tool Box Talk prior to performing any lifting operations.
- Provide technical expertise, identifies the necessary training required to implement Safe Rigging / Lifting Operations, support and encourages the practical application of competency-based development.
- Demonstrate initiative in resolving both immediate and long-term site issues regarding Rigging and Lifting systems and their practical implementation.
- Attend client and company management meetings on and off-site regarding site rigging issues.
- Ensure all the necessary spare parts for the heavy lift assets are coded & catalogued necessary inventories are stocked in warehouse.
- Responsible for certification and coding of all fleet and ensure periodical renewal of certificates.
- Schedule daily workload and generates work schedule plans.
- Assembling and dismantling crawler cranes and mobile cranes Fly-jib.
- Ensuring that health and safety procedures are followed in all work activities.
- Records all documents related to the work and reported to the managers with highlighted the cost control, team evaluation and future requirements/plans to improve work quality.
- Executing operation and inspection for a wide variety of cranes like Tadano model (GR800xl, GR600xl, GR500xl) and Grove Cranes (RT9000E, RT890E, RT880E, RT765E-2, RT760E) as well as Liebherr crane model (LR1200sx, HS895HD, LR1600, LTM1500-8.1, LTM1200-5.1, LTM1160-5.1, LTM1130-5.1, LTM1100-5.) and crawler cranes Kobelco CKE2500.
Maintenance and lifting Site Engineer
Asec Aresco company
07.2007 - 01.2012
- Maintenance of mechanical, hydraulic, electrical & pneumatic systems for wide variety of equipment like cranes, forklifts, generators, loaders and Excavators.
- Preparing spare parts’ orders and ensure enough stock with minimum costs for all equipment on site and updates maintenance’s logs for future reference.
- Assembling and dismantling crawler cranes and mobile cranes Fly-jib.
- Supervise, implementation and follow up, EHS regulations, procedures, guidelines and application for all maintenance activities.
- Planning and execution of routine and non-routine lifting procedures, creating lifting plans according to the provided information.
- Monitor and control maintenance expense budget for all site workshop activities.
Junior Maintenance Engineer
Heavy Truck Service Center
05.2005 - 06.2007
- Repair the new engines that worked by high pressure injection system with electronic management (common rail), can make computerized test used to diagnose brake systems, air suspensions, engines and electronically controlled systems, can repair IVECO, Mercedes Benz trucks and heavy-duty vehicles.
- Carrying out routine maintenance and repair works ensuring highly responding of trucks faults.
- Supervise, manage and control a team of automotive workshop mechanic by giving the practical assistants on the job and technical advice.
Education
Bachelor's degree - Mechanical power Engineering
Helwan University
05.2004
Skills
- Operational excellence
- Business analysis
- Organizational development
- Safety management
- Operations oversight
- Decision-making
Certification
- LEEA Foundation Certificate.
- TILLIC0013 License to operate a slewing mobile crane up to 60 tones.
- CPCCLRG3001A – License to perform rigging basic level.
- CPCCLDG3001A License to perform dogging.
- CPCCWHS1001 Prepare to work safely in the construction industry.
- Quality Management System Awareness and Internal Auditor Courses ISO 9001:2008 (Bureau Veritas - Saudi cranes)
- Training course for HS895HD cranes included electrical, electronic and hydraulics, assembly and troubleshooting (Liebherr-Saudi Arabia).
- Certified Rigger Level I since 2013-04 (TUV NORD- Saudi Arabia).
Timeline
Operation Manager
BigLift Cranes
06.2021 - Current
Field Service Technician
Manitowoc Cranes Group Australia
03.2020 - 09.2020
Maintenance and Operation Manager
Saudi Crane Services Ltd
01.2012 - 09.2019
Maintenance and lifting Site Engineer
Asec Aresco company
07.2007 - 01.2012
Junior Maintenance Engineer
Heavy Truck Service Center
05.2005 - 06.2007
Bachelor's degree - Mechanical power Engineering
Helwan University