Senior Freshwater Engineering Leader – Multi-Site

Orange Recruitment (United Kingdom); Barcaldine; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 98,000; Full time

Job summary

Scottish Sea Farms is seeking a Freshwater Engineering Manager to lead engineering across Barcaldine, Girlsta and Knock. The role combines leadership with hands-on technical support as needed to ensure safety, reliability and efficiency across freshwater facilities.

You will develop teams, manage budgets, and oversee maintenance programmes, while ensuring compliance with health, safety and environmental standards and supporting fish welfare and biosecurity initiatives.

Qualifications

• A recognised engineering qualification or equivalent relevant technical experience.
• Proven experience leading and developing engineering or maintenance teams.
• Strong understanding of maintenance, asset reliability and operational risk.
• Experience managing budgets, contractors and engineering resources; safe systems of work.
• Excellent communication, organisational and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to balance longer-term priorities with continuous operational demands.

Responsibilities

• Lead, motivate and develop engineering teams across multiple freshwater facilities.
• Ensure the reliability and availability of critical engineering systems and infrastructure.
• Develop and deliver preventative maintenance and asset management programmes.
• Drive continuous improvement in equipment reliability, energy efficiency and performance.
• Manage engineering budgets, contractors and resources.
• Lead and support engineering development and capital improvement projects.
• Ensure compliance with health, safety, environmental and statutory requirements.
• Collaborate with production and operational teams to support fish welfare and biosecurity.
• Designated Reservoir Manager and maintenance of Dam.
• Maintain emergency response and out-of-hours engineering support arrangements.
• Develop team capability through training, performance management and succession planning.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Maintenance management

Asset reliability

Budget management

Health & safety

Communication

Problem solving

Prioritisation

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

Fiix CMMS

Maintenance software

Job description

Scottish Sea Farms is seeking a Freshwater Engineering Manager to lead engineering across Barcaldine, Girlsta and Knock. The role combines leadership with hands-on technical support as needed to ensure safety, reliability and efficiency across freshwater facilities.

You will develop teams, manage budgets, and oversee maintenance programmes, while ensuring compliance with health, safety and environmental standards and supporting fish welfare and biosecurity initiatives.