Senior Maintenance & Systems Technical Authority

Land and Sea Resources Limited; Barrow-in-Furness; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Land and Sea Resources Limited is seeking an experienced Maintenance & Systems Technical Authority to provide technical governance, assurance and leadership across maintenance strategies, management systems and asset care standards.

In this role you will safeguard process safety, asset integrity and regulatory compliance throughout the asset lifecycle, acting as discipline authority, setting standards and making risk-based decisions across operating assets.

Qualifications

• Degree qualified in an Engineering or Technology discipline.
• Chartered Engineer status.
• Extensive maintenance engineering experience within onshore or offshore operations.
• Proven experience working as a Technical Authority or senior discipline engineer.
• Strong knowledge of maintenance strategies and reliability engineering.
• Experience with safety-critical equipment, barrier management and maintenance assurance.
• Strong understanding of maintenance management systems, work management and defect/backlog control.
• Demonstrated ability to make and defend risk-based technical decisions within high-hazard environments.
• Experience in event management and investigation techniques, ideally including Kelvin TopSet
• Strong technical governance, assurance and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to provide constructive challenge and confidently elevate safety or technical concerns.
• Supporting competence frameworks and technical capability development.

Responsibilities

• Acting as the Technical Authority for maintenance and maintenance systems within your defined scope.
• Approving or rejecting technical deviations, dispensations and non-conformances.
• Ensuring compliance with UK HSE regulatory requirements, including COMAH, Safety Case and SEMS requirements.
• Ensuring maintenance regimes support process safety barriers, statutory integrity requirements and production availability.
• Providing technical oversight of critical equipment, safety-critical elements, performance standards and assurance activities.
• Supporting failure investigations and acting as a Lead Investigator using Kelvin TopSet techniques.
• Acting as the technical owner for maintenance management systems.
• Ensuring maintenance systems support effective strategy execution, defect management and backlog control.
• Providing technical leadership for system upgrades, configuration changes and data quality improvements.
• Providing maintenance technical assurance during asset integrity reviews, audits and regulatory engagements.
• Supporting competence frameworks and technical capability development.
• Providing constructive technical challenge and escalation where standards or safety may be compromised.
• Supporting the wider business with additional technical duties as required.

Skills

Maintenance engineering

Technical authority experience

Maintenance strategies

Reliability engineering

Safety-critical equipment

Barrier management

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder management

Risk-based decision making

Kelvin TopSet knowledge

Education

Engineering degree

Chartered Engineer

Job description

Land and Sea Resources Limited is seeking an experienced Maintenance & Systems Technical Authority to provide technical governance, assurance and leadership across maintenance strategies, management systems and asset care standards.

In this role you will safeguard process safety, asset integrity and regulatory compliance throughout the asset lifecycle, acting as discipline authority, setting standards and making risk-based decisions across operating assets.