Maintenance & Systems Technical Authority

JAB Recruitment; Barrow-in-Furness; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

JAB Recruitment supports an established UK energy operator in appointing a senior Maintenance & Systems Technical Authority based in Barrow-in-Furness. The role governs maintenance strategy, management systems and asset care standards to ensure process safety, asset integrity and production availability.

You will lead governance, assurance and technical leadership across maintenance activities, system upgrades and investigations, while ensuring compliance with industry regulations and

Qualifications

• Extensive maintenance engineering experience in onshore or offshore environments.
• Experience operating as a Technical Authority or senior discipline engineer.
• Strong knowledge of maintenance strategies and reliability engineering.
• Experience with Safety Critical Equipment and barrier management.
• Solid understanding of maintenance/work-management systems.
• Ability to make and defend risk-based technical decisions in high-hazard environments.

Responsibilities

• Act as Technical Authority for maintenance and maintenance systems.
• Review/approve technical deviations, dispensations and non-conformances.
• Ensure compliance with COMAH, Safety Case, SEMS and regulatory regimes.
• Provide technical oversight of critical equipment and performance standards.
• Lead maintenance-system upgrades and data-quality improvements.
• Provide maintenance assurance input into asset integrity reviews and audits.

Skills

Maintenance engineering

Technical authority

Reliability engineering

Asset integrity

Risk-based decisions

Governance

Education

Engineering degree

Chartered Engineer status

Job description

Location: Barrow-in-Furness 4 days in office 1 at home. Candidates should be based comutable distance to site or be willing to relocate for the duration of the 2 year PAYE project.

JAB Recruitment is supporting an established UK energy operator in the appointment of a Maintenance & Systems Technical Authority based in Barrow-in-Furness.

This is a senior technical position providing governance, assurance and leadership across maintenance strategy, maintenance management systems and asset care standards. The role is responsible for ensuring maintenance practices support process safety, asset integrity, reliability, production availability and regulatory compliance throughout the asset lifecycle.

The Role

As the Maintenance & Systems Technical Authority, you will act as the recognised technical authority for maintenance and maintenance systems, providing authoritative guidance to Operations, Engineering and Projects.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Acting as Technical Authority for maintenance and maintenance systems.
• Reviewing and approving or rejecting technical deviations, dispensations and non-conformances.
• Ensuring maintenance activities comply with relevant legislation, company requirements and UK regulatory regimes including COMAH, Safety Case and SEMS.
• Ensuring maintenance strategies adequately support process safety barriers, statutory integrity requirements and production availability.
• Providing technical oversight of critical equipment, Safety Critical Elements and associated performance standards.
• Acting as technical owner for maintenance management systems.
• Ensuring effective defect management, backlog control and work-management processes.
• Providing technical leadership for maintenance-system upgrades, configuration changes and data-quality improvements.
• Providing maintenance assurance input into asset integrity reviews, internal/external audits and regulatory engagements.
• Supporting failure investigations and providing constructive technical challenge where safety or engineering standards could be compromised.
• Supporting technical competence frameworks and capability development.
• Acting as a lead investigator where required, using recognised investigation methodologies such as Kelvin TopSet.

About You

We are particularly interested in candidates with:

• Extensive maintenance engineering experience within onshore or offshore operating environments.
• Previous experience operating as a Technical Authority, Maintenance Authority, Reliability Authority or senior discipline engineer.
• Strong knowledge of maintenance strategies and reliability engineering.
• Experience with Safety Critical Equipment, barrier management and performance standards.
• Strong understanding of maintenance and work-management systems.
• Experience making and defending risk-based technical decisions within a high-hazard environment.
• Strong asset integrity, assurance and operational-risk awareness.
• Experience supporting technical investigations and root-cause analysis.
• An Engineering or Technology degree.
• Chartered Engineer status.
• Investigation/event-management training such as Kelvin TopSet or equivalent.

Why Apply?

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Maintenance, Reliability or Asset Integrity professional to step into a highly influential Technical Authority position, providing engineering governance across operating assets and helping shape maintenance standards, reliability and long-term asset performance.

If you have a strong background in maintenance engineering, reliability, asset integrity, maintenance systems or technical assurance within oil & gas or another high-hazard industry, we would be keen to hear from you.