Global Maintenance & Lifecycle Strategy Lead

Srt Marine; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Highly Competitive Salary and benefits

25 days annual leave rising to 28 days

Real development opportunities

Job summary

SRT Marine Systems plc is seeking a Global Maintenance Manager to own and coordinate proactive maintenance across deployed systems worldwide. The role requires coordinating with in-country teams, CS managers, and engineering leads to ensure planned maintenance aligns with lifecycle requirements.

The position emphasizes transitioning from reactive to proactive maintenance, improving system availability and lifecycle performance, with significant travel and overseas responsibilities.

Qualifications

• A strong engineering background with the depth to lead in this role.
• Significant experience in maintenance management within complex technical environments.
• Proven experience developing and managing preventative and planned maintenance programmes across multiple sites or geographically dispersed assets.
• Strong understanding of asset lifecycle management, including servicing, inspection, repair, refurbishment, replacement and obsolescence.
• Experience moving an organisation from reactive maintenance towards proactive/preventative maintenance.
• Strong planning and scheduling capability across multiple countries and priorities.
• Experience coordinating multi-disciplinary engineering resources without direct line-management authority in a matrix organisation.
• Experience coordinating in-country engineers, subcontractors, suppliers and specialist technical resources.
• Experience developing maintenance procedures, service schedules, checklists, reporting and governance processes with clear status/risk reporting to senior management.
• Broad technical understanding of data centre and surveillance systems, buildings and facilities management and the underpinning infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Own and drive maintenance planning for deployed systems and infrastructure.
• Coordinate with in-country engineering leads, field engineers, and other teams to secure resources.
• Define maintenance frequencies and servicing requirements for different equipment types.
• Ensure preventive maintenance is completed within agreed service windows.
• Identify recurring failures and develop interventions to prevent recurrence.
• Maintain visibility of upcoming maintenance across countries and programmes.
• Develop procedures, schedules, checklists, and governance for maintenance.
• Provide clear maintenance status and risk reporting to senior management.

Skills

Planning and scheduling

Resource coordination

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical leadership

Project coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Maintenance management software

Data analysis tools

Job description

SRT Marine Systems plc is seeking a Global Maintenance Manager to own and coordinate proactive maintenance across deployed systems worldwide. The role requires coordinating with in-country teams, CS managers, and engineering leads to ensure planned maintenance aligns with lifecycle requirements.

The position emphasizes transitioning from reactive to proactive maintenance, improving system availability and lifecycle performance, with significant travel and overseas responsibilities.