HV Supervisor

Orsted; Grimsby; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Orsted in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced supervisor to lead day-to-day offshore work, coordinate maintenance and campaigns, and deliver work safely and to quality standards. You will provide technical guidance to technicians and contractors and collaborate with planning, operations, and logistics to ensure readiness and safe execution.

The role emphasizes safety leadership, competent supervision, and accurate record-keeping in SAP, with opportunities to develop technical knowledge

Qualifications

• Strong maintenance execution and troubleshooting across electrical, mechanical, and control systems.
• Experience supervising technicians and contractors with clear direction.
• Knowledge of SAP or equivalent CMMS for record-keeping.
• Relevant technical qualification, apprenticeship, degree, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate planned, corrective, troubleshooting, and campaign activities safely and efficiently.
• Provide technical guidance to technicians, specialists, and contractors; support development.
• Coordinate offshore logistics, tools, equipment, and work-pack readiness.
• Provide immediate technical support and escalate complex issues as needed.
• Promote safety culture through leadership, risk management, toolbox talks, and stop-work authority.
• Maintain accurate work orders, technical records, parts usage, and documentation in SAP.

Skills

Maintenance execution

Troubleshooting

Safety leadership

Supervising technicians

Coordination

Record keeping

Education

Technical qualification/apprenticeship/degree

Tools

SAP

Job description

Join us in this role where you’ll lead the day-to‑day delivery of planned, corrective, troubleshooting, and campaign work. You’ll provide technical guidance to technicians and contractors, coordinate offshore activities, and help ensure that work is completed safely, efficiently, and to the required quality standards.

Welcome to Generation UK

You’ll be part of the Transmission team where you, together with your colleagues, will operate and maintain our transmission assets and deliver the weekly work schedule. You’ll work closely with the Transmission Manager, Planning and Scheduling, Technical Planners, Operations, Engineering, and Logistics to coordinate safe and effective execution.

As a team, we care for one another, share our technical knowledge, and work together to solve operational challenges. We never compromise on safety, and we support everyone to develop their skills.

You’ll play an important role in:

• leading and coordinating planned, corrective, troubleshooting, and campaign activities, ensuring that work is completed safely, efficiently, and to the required quality standards
• supervising, coaching, and providing technical guidance to technicians, specialists, and contractors, while supporting competence development and knowledge sharing
• coordinating personnel, offshore logistics, tools, equipment, materials, and work‑pack readiness in collaboration with the Transmission Manager and relevant support teams
• providing immediate technical support, escalating complex issues when required, and contributing to troubleshooting, root‑cause analysis, and defect elimination
• promoting a strong safety culture through visible leadership, effective risk management, toolbox talks, safety briefings, observations, near‑miss reporting, and stop‑work authority
• maintaining accurate work orders, technical records, parts usage, and supporting documentation in SAP or other approved systems.

To succeed in the role, you:

• have strong maintenance execution and troubleshooting capability across electrical, mechanical, control, and associated systems
• demonstrate safety leadership and have practical knowledge of safe systems of work, lifting operations, working at height, and incident investigation
• have experience supervising technicians, specialists, or contractors and can provide clear direction, coaching, and technical guidance
• understand work management processes and can maintain accurate, high‑quality records in SAP, a computerised maintenance management system, or an equivalent system
• hold a relevant technical qualification, apprenticeship, degree, or equivalent experience
• can make sound operational decisions, manage changing priorities, ensure accountability, and collaborate effectively with colleagues and stakeholders.

Maybe you’ve read the above and can see you have some transferable skills, even though they don’t quite match all the points. If you think you can bring something to the team, we still encourage you to apply.

Shape the future with us

As an applicant or employee, you may request reasonable work and position accommodation or adjustments via [e-mail].