Maintenance Systems Lead - CMMS & Asset Integrity

Spirit Energy; Barrow-in-Furness; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 111,000; Full time

Job summary

Spirit Energy's Barrow-in-Furness base seeks a Maintenance Systems Lead to deploy, govern and optimise maintenance management systems across assets, enabling safe and efficient operations.

You will bridge maintenance, engineering and IS, lead CMMS governance, data quality and KPI dashboards, and support audits and SEMS/COMAH compliance. This is a 2-year PAYE contract with hybrid working, requiring UK right-to-work and a competitive day rate.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in maintenance systems within hazardous industries.
• Hands-on experience with CMMS/EAM systems.
• Solid understanding of maintenance work management processes.
• Knowledge of ISO 55000 Asset Management principles.
• Proven experience working with ICP and MoC.
• Degree qualified in an engineering or technology discipline.
• Chartered Engineer.
• Experience in event management and investigation training such as Kelvin TopSet.

Responsibilities

• Act as the system owner for the CMMS System, ensuring the system supports maintenance planning, execution, backlog management, defect control and reporting.
• Own system configuration, governance, and change control processes.
• Ensure compliance with company standards, regulatory requirements, and audit expectations.
• Ensure accurate and consistent asset hierarchy, tagging, and equipment master data.
• Maintain data standards for work orders, task lists, failure codes, and maintenance history.
• Drive improvements in data quality to support performance analysis, regulatory reporting, and decision‑making.
• Support alignment with Safety‑Critical Elements (SCEs) and integrity registers.
• Develop and maintain maintenance KPIs and dashboards, including backlog, compliance, PM effectiveness, and deferrals; providing insights into maintenance performance, trends, and risks.
• Support maintenance, reliability, and asset integrity teams with actionable system‑based analysis.
• Support audits, inspections, and regulatory reviews related to maintenance systems and records.
• Ensure maintenance system usage supports Safety Case, SEMS, COMAH requirements where applicable.
• Identify system‑related risks that could impact asset integrity, safety, or compliance and develop mitigation actions.
• Lead or support initiatives to improve work management processes; preventive maintenance effectiveness; backlog and deferral management
• Support system upgrades, migrations, and digitalisation initiatives.
• Provide guidance and training to users to improve system adoption and data quality.
• Support development of system procedures, work instructions, and user guides.
• Act as a Lead investigator using Kelvin TopSet investigation techniques to support business requirements.
• Any other associated duties as reasonably required.

Skills

Maintenance systems experience

CMMS/EAM systems

Maintenance work management

ISO 55000 knowledge

ICP/MoC experience

Kelvin TopSet event management

Education

Engineering or technology degree

Chartered Engineer

Tools

CMMS/EAM systems

Job description

Spirit Energy's Barrow-in-Furness base seeks a Maintenance Systems Lead to deploy, govern and optimise maintenance management systems across assets, enabling safe and efficient operations.

You will bridge maintenance, engineering and IS, lead CMMS governance, data quality and KPI dashboards, and support audits and SEMS/COMAH compliance. This is a 2-year PAYE contract with hybrid working, requiring UK right-to-work and a competitive day rate.