Maintenance Technical Authority
Listed on 2026-11-02
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Engineering
Safety Engineer
Location:
Barrow-in-Furness 4 days in office 1 didates should be based comutable distance to site or be willing to relocate for the duration of the 2 year PAYE project.
JAB Recruitment is supporting a leading energy operator in the recruitment of an experienced Maintenance Technical Authority to provide technical governance, assurance and leadership across operational assets.
This is a senior technical position responsible for ensuring maintenance strategies, asset reliability, process safety and regulatory compliance are maintained to the highest standards.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as the Maintenance Technical Authority, providing technical leadership and governance across operational assets.
- Own and continually improve the SAP Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
- Lead maintenance strategies, work management processes and asset care standards.
- Ensure compliance with safety-critical equipment requirements, performance standards and asset integrity obligations.
- Oversee maintenance planning, scheduling, defect management and backlog control.
- Support technical audits, regulatory inspections and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Approve technical deviations and provide risk-based engineering guidance.
- Support incident investigations, failure analysis and maintenance performance reporting.
Essential Experience &
Qualifications:
- Extensive maintenance engineering experience within onshore or offshore oil & gas operations.
- Proven experience as a Technical Authority or Senior Discipline Engineer.
- Strong SAP CMMS knowledge, including maintenance data structures and equipment hierarchies.
- In-depth understanding of maintenance strategies, reliability engineering and work management processes.
- Knowledge of COMAH, Safety Case requirements, process safety and barrier management.
- Engineering or technology degree.
- Chartered Engineer status.
- Experience in incident investigation techniques, ideally Kelvin Top Set.
We are particularly interested in candidates with strong technical leadership capabilities and experience making risk-based decisions within high-hazard operational environments.
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