Abnormal Load E
Could you lift your
engineering career
to dazzling heights?
Transporting and installing some of the heaviest and largest
equipment in the world is a multi-million pound business.
And you could be a part of it, due to recent vacancies with
Abnormal Load Engineering Limited (ALE), one of the world's
major international heavy lifting contractors.
ALE was formed in 1983 in response to the That was exactly what ALE asked its team of
demands of electrical plant manufacturers and utility graduates, under the leadership of experienced
companies. The large, heavy and bulky items found project managers, to do for the A228 Leybourne and
in generating plants required a specialist approach West Malling Bypass Scheme, in order to widen the
to movement and installation. ALE's succeeded at A228. It took approximately one week to elevate the
delivering from design to completion, and bridge onto specially-designed Self-Propelled
subsequently developed a reputation that would Modular Transporters and move it back while the
extend around the globe. existing piers were demolished and new piers
constructed.
Shifting a 310-tonne gas turbine across Italy using a
30-axle girder trailer may not sound like a small ALE work for all industry sectors with an extensive
project, but that has been one of ALE's lighter fleet of modern cranes, specialist transport vehicles
duties. As a graduate, you could be tasked with and installation equipment. Their team is made up of
moving a concrete road bridge weighing over 1,100 highly experienced engineers, most of whom were
tonnes 9 metres to the east of its original location - graduates when they started with ALE. Here's what
whilst ensuring that traffic can still pass safely some of them have to say about the experience:
underneath during the procedure.
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