Engineering & Maintenance Manager

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Engineering & Maintenance Manager to lead engineering integrity, maintenance delivery and asset reliability at our COMAH Upper Tier gas storage facility.

Reporting as a key member of the Site Leadership Team, you will be accountable for engineering governance, maintenance strategy, regulatory compliance and the long-term integrity of both above-ground and sub-surface assets. This is a hands-on leadership role, managing a skilled engineering team and specialist contractors while ensuring safe, reliable and efficient operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the engineering and maintenance team, ensuring competency and continuous improvement.
• Own engineering governance, maintenance strategy and asset integrity across the site.
• Maintain compliance with COMAH and relevant legislation including PSSR, DSEAR, PUWER, LOLER, ATEX and Electricity at Work Regulations.
• Maintain the COMAH Safety Report and act as the principal engineering interface with regulators.
• Lead process safety activities, Management of Change (MOC) and functional safety governance.
• Manage mechanical integrity programmes, pressure systems, statutory inspections and risk-based maintenance.
• Oversee well integrity and sub-surface engineering activities, working with specialist contractors.
• Plan and deliver planned shutdowns and major maintenance outages.
• Develop and optimise the CMMS, maintenance procedures and reliability programmes.
• Lead technical investigations, root cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Manage engineering contractors, maintenance budgets and technical standards.

About You

You'll be a Chartered Engineer (or working towards chartership) with significant engineering leadership experience in a high-hazard process industry such as oil & gas, petrochemical, LNG, chemical processing or gas storage.

You'll have:

• Strong knowledge of COMAH and process safety management.
• Experience leading engineering and maintenance teams.
• Proven delivery of major shutdowns and maintenance programmes.
• Excellent understanding of mechanical integrity, asset management and maintenance systems (CMMS).
• Broad engineering knowledge across mechanical, electrical and control/instrumentation disciplines.
• Strong leadership, communication and problem-solving skills.

Desirable

• Experience within gas storage or transmission.
• Well Integrity Management System (WIMS) knowledge.
• NEBOSH/IOSH qualification.
• Experience with Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) or Risk-Based Inspection (RBI).

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