Maintenance & Systems Technical Authority

Spirit Production (Services) Ltd; Barrow-in-Furness; Hybrid; GBP 74,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Spirits Energy in Barrow-in-Furness seeks a Maintenance & Systems Technical Authority to provide governance and leadership for maintenance strategies, management systems and asset care standards across assets in the UK. The role ensures process safety, asset integrity and regulatory compliance throughout the asset lifecycle.

Based in Barrow-in-Furness on a 2-year PAYE contract, the position requires Chartered Engineer status, extensive maintenance engineering experience, and a proven track

Qualifications

• Extensive onshore/offshore maintenance engineering experience.
• Experience as Technical Authority or senior discipline engineer.
• Degree in an engineering discipline; Chartered Engineer status.
• Experience with event management and Kelvin TopSet training.

Responsibilities

• Act as Technical Authority for maintenance and systems within defined scope.
• Approve or reject technical deviations, dispensations and non-conformances.
• Ensure compliance with UK HSE regimes; COMAH, SEMS and industry standards.
• Ensure maintenance regimes support process safety barriers and production availability.
• Provide technical oversight of critical equipment maintenance and safety critical elements.
• Support failure investigations as required.
• Act as technical owner for maintenance management systems.
• Ensure maintenance systems support strategy execution and backlog control.
• Provide technical leadership for system upgrades and data quality improvements.
• Provide assurance into asset integrity reviews and regulatory engagements.
• Contribute to competence frameworks and technical capability development.
• Provide constructive challenge and escalation where standards or safety may be compromised.
• Lead investigations using Kelvin TopSet techniques.

Skills

Maintenance engineering

Reliability engineering

Technical governance

Risk-based decision making

Education

Degree in engineering

Chartered Engineer

Job description

THE OPPORTUNITY – MAINTENANCE & SYSTEMS TECHNICAL AUTHORITY

The Maintenance & Systems Technical Authority provides technical governance, assurance and leadership for maintenance strategies, maintenance management systems, and asset care standards across the operating assets. The role ensures that maintenance practices and systems protect process safety, asset integrity, reliability, and regulatory compliance throughout the asset lifecycle. Acting as the discipline Technical Authority, the role holder has accountability for setting and enforcing standards, approving technical deviations, and providing authoritative guidance to operations and projects.

Location: Barrow-in-Furness

Duration: 2-year contract

Contract Type: PAYE

Day Rate: TBC
For your application to be progressed, please ensure you provide a PAYE day rate banding expectation. Please note that there is no travel and accommodation allowance provided. Please only apply if you have existing right-to-work in the UK. Please outline notice period/availability to start.

Spirits Energy currently have a non-contractual hybrid working arrangement for all office-based workers. 4 days must be worked in the office with compulsory days being Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The fourth day worked in-office (either Monday or Friday) is of the worker’s choosing but should be in keeping with what is most efficient and effective for their team. The office is open 5 days a week for full time, in-office working if this is the contractor’s preference.

• Act as the Technical Authority for maintenance and maintenance systems within defined scope.
• Approve or reject technical deviations, dispensations, and non-conformances related to maintenance activities and systems.
• Ensure compliance with applicable legislation, standards, and company requirements, including UK HSE regulatory regimes; COMAH, Safety Case and SEMS requirements; and industry standards.
• Ensure maintenance regimes support process safety barriers, statutory integrity requirements, and production availability.
• Provide technical oversight of critical equipment maintenance, safety critical elements, performance standards and assurance activities.
• Support failure investigations as required.
• Act as technical owner for maintenance management systems.
• Ensure maintenance systems support maintenance strategy execution; defect management and backlog control; regulatory and safety case/COMAH reporting.
• Provide technical leadership for system upgrades, configuration changes, and data quality improvements.
• Provide maintenance technical assurance into asset integrity reviews, internal and external audits and regulatory engagements.
• Contribute to competence frameworks and technical capability development.
• Provide constructive challenge and technical escalation where standards or safety may be compromised.
• Act as a Lead investigator using Kelvin TopSet investigation techniques to support business requirements.
• Any other associated duties as reasonably required.

ABOUT YOU

• Extensive experience in maintenance engineering within onshore or offshore operations.
• Proven experience operating in a Technical Authority or senior discipline engineer role.
• Strong understanding of maintenance strategies and reliability engineering; safety critical equipment and barrier management; maintenance systems and work management processes.
• Demonstrated ability to make and defend risk-based technical decisions in a high-hazard environment.
• Degree qualified in an engineering or technology discipline.
• Chartered Engineer.
• Experience in event management and investigation training such as Kelvin TopSet.

In addition to technical knowledge and credibility, we are looking for someone who lives our values - Agility, Collaboration, Courage, Care, and Delivery. A person who embraces and supports change, while ensuring the safe and efficient operation of a mature asset.

We are a truly pioneering energy transition company with a portfolio and ambitions that span the breadth of the energy transition. We’re continuing to break new ground, collaborating and thinking differently. We’re proud of our heritage. With more than 30 years of production, we’re maximising the potential of our existing assets and substantial gas reserves in the UK and Netherlands. Above all, we live by our commitment to safety in everything we do. Our portfolio is predominantly gas (96%), providing vital, primary energy to fuel our homes and businesses in the UK and Europe.

OUR STRATEGY

• Safely delivering production from our existing assets
• Meeting and de-risking our decommissioning obligations, and
• Exploring strategic energy transition opportunities from our existing assets