About Sorian Cranes

Built on engineering.
Not on sales targets.

Sorian Cranes exists because overhead lifting in Australia deserves better than a catalogue quote and a crossed-fingers installation.

We're an engineer-led crane company. That means the person specifying your crane is a qualified mechanical engineer — not a sales rep working off a brochure. The structural calculations get done by the right people. The compliance gets confirmed. The installation is designed to suit your facility, your floor, your workflow. Where a project needs a registered engineer's sign-off, we engage that specialist directly.

Every crane we supply is designed to do exactly what you need it to do, for the life you expect it to have.

Sorian is run by two New Zealand-born brothers — Rohan and Jerome — who took different paths through engineering and enterprise operations across both sides of the Tasman before building Sorian together.

Leadership

The team behind every project.

R

Rohan

Director & Lead Engineer

Rohan holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering. His career has spanned the process industry in New Zealand and the crane and lifting industry in Australia — across industrial, mining and commercial applications.

Before founding Sorian, Rohan was a Sales and Applications Engineer at a major Australian crane manufacturer, with strong working relationships across Asian and European manufacturers.

Because he's an engineer, Rohan has also built the internal software and tooling Sorian runs on — parametric sizing models, structured load schedules, and automated quote and documentation packs. The result: faster quotes, fewer hand-offs between vendors and customer, and a consistent documentation trail from first enquiry through to commissioning.

His philosophy is straightforward: find out what the customer actually needs, specify the right solution, and make sure it's installed correctly. The customer doesn't get sold a bigger crane than they need to inflate a margin, and they don't get a cheaper crane that won't last the duty cycle. The recommendation is whatever the application calls for. No upselling. No shortcuts.

J

Jerome

Co-founder & Operations Lead

Jerome brings a background in enterprise project delivery and operations management. He has led large-scale programs for major organisations across the testing, aviation and telecommunications industries — including national-scale rollouts in New Zealand — in environments where safety-critical processes, regulatory rigour and on-time delivery aren't optional.

That discipline shows up in how Sorian runs day-to-day. A crane project is effectively several streams running in parallel — site assessment, manufacturer scheduling, installation logistics, compliance documentation, after-handover support — and the customer experience depends on every one of them landing on time. Jerome owns the operational side of that: clear status, predictable communication, no surprises.

The engineering quality Sorian is built on is matched by an equally rigorous operational standard. From initial quote through to post-installation documentation, every project is run with the kind of process discipline you'd expect from an enterprise program — sized down to fit a fast-moving crane business.

Credentials

The engineering record.

B.E. (Mech.)

Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering held by the Director. Engineer-led specification of overhead lifting solutions for industrial applications.

AS 1418 / AS 2550

All designs and installations follow AS 1418 (design) and AS 2550 (use). Full documentation provided.

WorkSafe Design Registration

WorkSafe design registration is required for cranes with Maximum Rated Capacity (MRC) greater than 10 tonnes. Where applicable, we manage this process as part of the project.

Our Approach

How we work.

We start by understanding your application — what you're lifting, how often, where, and what constraints your facility presents. From there we specify the crane type, capacity, configuration and installation method that actually suits your operation.

We don't have a "preferred" product we push. We specify what's right, source from quality-tested manufacturers, and install it ourselves to a documented engineering standard.

You get engineering calculations, compliance documentation, and a crane that does what it's supposed to — every shift, for years.

Ready to talk to an engineer?

Send through your application — capacity, span, structure and location — and we'll come back with an engineered recommendation and a fixed price.

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