Operations & Maintenance Team Lead

Orsted Asia Pacific; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Generation UK is seeking a hands-on leader to head a team of maintenance technicians on an offshore wind site. You’ll translate site plans into safe, effective daily and weekly execution, coordinating people, vessels, tools and contractors while developing your team.

You’ll partner with the Operations & Maintenance Manager and broader site functions to deliver planned and corrective maintenance, ensure safety, and drive reliable asset performance.

Qualifications

• /Leading and developing maintenance teams in safety-critical environments.
• /Understanding safe systems of work and operational compliance.
• /Ability to coordinate complex activities and balance priorities.
• /Clear communication with technicians, planners, engineers, contractors and stakeholders.
• /Use performance data to improve reliability and execution.

Responsibilities

• /Lead safe, effective execution of planned and corrective maintenance; manage documentation, feedback and escalation.
• /Provide frontline offshore safety leadership and ensure work follows safety rules and site requirements.
• /Develop technicians through clear objectives, feedback, competence development and succession planning.
• /Coordinate readiness including work packages, people, vessels, tools, materials, site restrictions, contractors, and pre-job briefs.
• /Monitor daily/weekly execution, backlog, downtime and actionable improvements; escalate risks.
• /Ensure accurate work management and reporting in SAP, collaborating with Planning, Engineering and Remote Diagnostics.

Skills

Team leadership

Communication

Safety leadership

Operational coordination

Decision making

Education

Leadership qualification or equivalent

NEBOSH/IOSH/CMI training

Tools

SAP

Job description

Join us in this role where you’ll lead a team of maintenance technicians and turn site plans into safe, effective daily and weekly execution. You’ll coordinate people, vessels, tools, materials, and contractors, while developing your team and supporting reliable asset performance.

Welcome to Generation UK

You’ll be part of the site Operations & Maintenance team where you, together with your colleagues, will deliver planned and corrective maintenance across the assigned site. You’ll work closely with the Operations & Maintenance Manager, Planning, Engineering, QHSE, Remote Diagnostics, Logistics, and contractors. As a team, we put safety first, communicate openly, and learn from every job to improve performance together.

You’ll play an important role in:

• leading the safe and effective execution and closure of planned and corrective maintenance, including documentation, feedback, and escalation
• providing visible frontline and offshore safety leadership, ensuring work follows safe systems, Wind Turbine Safety Rules, quality standards, and site requirements
• leading, coaching, and developing maintenance technicians through clear objectives, regular feedback, competence development, wellbeing support, and succession planning
• coordinating operational readiness, including work packages, people, vessels, tools, materials, site restrictions, contractors, and pre-job briefings
• monitoring daily and weekly execution, backlog, downtime, rework, repeat defects, incidents, observations, and corrective actions, and escalating risks promptly
• ensuring accurate work management and reporting in SAP and associated operational systems, while working with Planning, Engineering, and Remote Diagnostics to improve reliability.

To succeed in the role, you:

• have experience leading and developing teams in an operational, maintenance, engineering, utilities, or similarly safety-critical environment
• understand safe systems of work, operational compliance, and the importance of visible, consistent safety leadership
• can coordinate complex operational activities, balance competing priorities, and make sound day-to-day decisions
• communicate clearly and build effective relationships with technicians, planners, engineers, contractors, and other site stakeholders
• use performance information and operational feedback to solve problems, improve execution, and support reliable asset performance
• bring relevant technical training, a leadership qualification, or equivalent experience; offshore wind experience and NEBOSH, IOSH, or CMI training would be beneficial.