Maintenance Spares & Repairs Lead

Position: Maintenance Spares & Repairs Lead
Location: Barrow in Furness

THIS ROLE IS INSIDE OF IR35, AND PAYE ONLY. 4 DAYS IN BARROW IS MANDATORY.

The Maintenance Spares & Repairs Lead is responsible for ensuring the availability, integrity, and lifecycle management of maintenance spares and repairable equipment to support safe, reliable, and compliant asset operations.

The role ensures that critical spares, repair strategies, and inventory controls are aligned with asset criticality, maintenance strategies, and regulatory requirements, while balancing operational risk and total cost of ownership.

Key role deliverables:

· Maintain spares and repair strategies aligned with maintenance and asset integrity requirements, ensuring spares strategies support whole‑life value and sustainability objectives.

· Define and manage spares philosophies for safety critical elements; production‑critical equipment; obsolescence and life‑extension scenarios.

· Ensure alignment with regulatory, Safety Case, SEMS, COMAH and company standards.

· Identify and manage critical and insurance spares based on asset criticality and failure risk.

· Ensure appropriate stocking policies for onshore and offshore environments, considering logistics and downtime risk.

· Support business decisions on redundancy, repair vs replace, and long‑lead‑time items.

· Maintain critical spares registers and assurance evidence.

· Act as the technical focal point for spares and repair vendors, OEMs, and specialist repair service providers.

· Ensure repairs meet OEM specifications; engineering and quality standards; and regulatory and safety requirements

· Support supplier performance management and contract input.

· Identify and manage obsolescence risks affecting spares and equipment.

· Develop mitigation strategies including redesign, alternative sourcing, or life extension options.

· Input to asset plans and decommissioning strategies.

· Work with supply chain teams to optimise inventory levels while managing operational risk.

· Reduce excess, obsolete, and slow-moving stock through structured reviews and disposal strategies.

· Support cost control and budgeting activities related to spares and repairs.

· Ensure accurate spares data within CMMS system.

· Support audits, asset integrity reviews, and regulatory inspections.

· Provide specialist guidance to planners, engineers, and offshore teams on spares and repairs.

· Act as a Lead investigator using Kelvin Top Set investigation techniques to support business requirements.

· Any other associated duties as reasonably required.

Technical skills & qualifications

· Proven experience in maintenance spares and repair management within hazardous industry

· Demonstrable understanding of equipment criticality and risk based spares management; maintenance strategies and reliability principles; repair processes and quality assurance

· Experience working with CMMS systems

· Experience managing obsolescence in ageing assets desirable

· Familiarity with ISO 55000 Asset Management principles

· Degree qualified in engineering or technology discipline, Materials Management or Asset Management

People are our business worldwide

Orion Group was founded in 1987 and is now one of the largest, independent, international recruitment companies. We have a network of 200 employees working from 24 offices, delivering a range of services – Talent Acquisition, Recruitment Outsourcing Services, Retained Search, Global Workforce Solutions, Completions & Commissioning and Materials Management – across 68 countries. As a global leader in workforce solutions, we recruit personnel across the Engineering & Technical, Office & Commercial, Scientific and Skilled Trades disciplines, for sectors including Oil & Gas, Life Science, Power & Utilities, Constructions & Infrastructure, Manufacturing and Renewables