Engineering Authority

Morson Group; Barrow-in-Furness; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The Engineering Authority role at Morson Group provides technical assurance, governance, and decision-making to ensure engineering activities are safe, compliant, and aligned with company standards, regulatory requirements and industry best practice. It acts as the ultimate technical decision-maker within its discipline and manages technical risk across the asset lifecycle.

The role leads outsourced TA and Engineering services, driving continuous improvement and ensuring risk is reduced to ALARP

Qualifications

• Proven experience acting in a senior technical or assurance role.
• Strong knowledge of applicable codes, standards, and regulatory frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to make independent technical decisions under pressure.
• Deep technical expertise within discipline.
• Sound engineering judgement and integrity.

Responsibilities

• Act as the designated Engineering Authority with authority to approve, challenge, or reject engineering decisions.
• Custodian of discipline engineering standards and asset engineering documentation; ensure compliance.
• Develop, implement, and improve the Technical Authority Framework.
• Ownership of the quality of SECE performance standards.
• Allocate performance standards to the correct Technical Authority.
• Identify, assess, and manage technical risks; reduce to ALARP.
• Lead or input into hazard identification and technical risk assessments.
• Ensure decisions support safe operations, asset integrity, lifecycle performance.
• Escalation point for technical non-conformances and deviations.
• Support incident investigations with technical judgement and root cause analysis.
• Drive continuous improvement in engineering practices, tools, governance.
• Contract ownership and vendor management.
• Lead investigator using Kelvin TopSet techniques.
• Any other duties as reasonably required.

Skills

Senior technical/assurance experience

Regulatory knowledge

Independent decision making

Technical expertise

Engineering judgement

Job description

The Engineering Authority provides technical assurance, governance, and decision-making authority to ensure engineering activities are safe, compliant, and aligned with company standards, regulatory requirements, and industry best practice. The role acts as the ultimate technical decision-maker within their discipline and is accountable for managing technical risk across the asset lifecycle.

The role provides leadership and management of all outsourced TA and Engineering service provision.

Deliverables

• Act as the designated Engineering Authority with authority to approve, challenge, or reject engineering decisions.
• Acts as custodian of discipline engineering standards and asset engineering documentation and assure their compliance. Provides recommendations for approval of derogations / dispensations.
• Responsible for the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of the Technical Authority Framework.
• Overall ownership of the scope of quality of SECE performance standards.
• Ensure individual performance standards are correctly allocated to the appropriate Technical Authority.
• Identify, assess, and manage technical risks, ensuring risks are reduced to ALARP (or equivalent).
• Lead or input into hazard identification and technical risk assessments.
• Ensure engineering decisions support safe operations, asset integrity, and lifecycle performance.
• Act as an escalation point for technical non-conformances and deviations as appropriate.
• Support incident investigations by providing technical judgement and root cause analysis.
• Drive continuous improvement in engineering practices, tools, and governance.
• Contract ownership and vendor management.
• Act as a Lead investigator using Kelvin TopSet investigation techniques to support business requirements.
• Any other associated duties as reasonably required.

Technical Skills

• Proven experience acting in a senior technical or assurance role.
• Strong knowledge of applicable codes, standards, and regulatory frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to make independent technical decisions under pressure.
• Deep technical expertise within discipline
• Sound engineering judgement and integrity