Maintenance and Systems Technical Authority

Maintenance & Systems Technical Authority

Location: Barrow-in-Furness

Skills & 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 escalate safety or technical concerns

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Maintenance & Systems Technical Authority to provide technical governance, assurance and leadership across maintenance strategies, maintenance management systems and asset care standards.

As the Maintenance & Systems Technical Authority, you will play a key role in ensuring maintenance activities protect process safety, asset integrity, reliability and regulatory compliance throughout the asset lifecycle.

You will act as the discipline Technical Authority, providing authoritative technical guidance, setting and enforcing standards, and making important risk-based decisions across the operating assets.

What You Will Be Doing

As the Maintenance & Systems Technical Authority, your responsibilities will include:

• 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

Why Join?

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced maintenance engineering professional to take on a high-profile Technical Authority position within a safety-critical operating environment.

Benefits & Opportunities

• Technical Authority leadership role with significant influence across maintenance and asset management
• Opportunity to shape and improve maintenance strategies and systems
• Work within a high-hazard, safety-critical environment
• Exposure to asset integrity, regulatory compliance and process safety
• Opportunity to lead and support failure investigations and technical assurance
• Senior-level engagement with operations, projects, engineering and assurance teams
• Opportunity to influence reliability, asset performance and continuous improvement
• Develop and strengthen your experience across maintenance governance and technical assurance
• Long-term professional development within a technically demanding environment
• Based in Barrow-in-Furness

Apply Today

If you are an experienced Maintenance & Systems Technical Authority, Senior Maintenance Engineer or Technical Authority with a strong background in maintenance engineering, reliability and technical governance, we would like to hear from you.

This is an opportunity to take ownership of maintenance standards and systems while making a direct contribution to safety, reliability, compliance and asset performance.