Maintenance Manager

Maintenance Manager

Job Summary

Provide leadership and technical oversight for all maintenance activities within a high-hazard process facility, ensuring safe, reliable, and compliant operation of safety-critical systems, plant, utilities, and infrastructure. Develop and deliver risk-based maintenance strategies that optimise asset performance while meeting regulatory and commercial objectives

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop in-house and contracted maintenance teams, ensuring high standards of safety, quality, performance, and competency.
• Manage all planned shutdowns and major outages, including planning, budgeting, contractor management, execution, and close-out.
• Direct maintenance response to emergent work and asset issues, ensuring effective prioritisation and communication.
• Oversee maintenance strategy, asset integrity, reliability improvement, and lifecycle planning
• Manage maintenance budgets, contracts, stores, and critical spare parts inventories
• Ensure compliance with relevant legislation and standards, including COMAH, PSSR, DSEAR, ATEX, PUWER, Electricity at Work Regulations, and functional safety requirements
• Maintain and assure the integrity of safety-critical systems, including ESD, PSD, Fire & Gas, and Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS)
• Lead technical assurance activities, engineering reviews, audits, and safety-critical documentation management
• Own and continuously improve the Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS), maintenance records, procedures, and reporting processes
• Develop and maintain maintenance procedures, technical standards, and work instructions aligned with industry best practice
• Lead root cause investigations, reliability improvement initiatives, and asset performance monitoring
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and constructive challenge

Qualifications & Experience

• Chartered Engineer (CEng) or equivalent professional accreditation
• Significant maintenance management experience within a high-hazard process industry such as oil & gas, petrochemical, chemical, LNG, or similar
• Strong knowledge of asset integrity, maintenance management, reliability engineering, and regulatory compliance
• Experience planning and delivering major shutdowns and outages
• Proven experience implementing and managing CMMS systems and maintenance data governance
• Technical expertise across mechanical, electrical, process, and/or control & instrumentation disciplines
• Familiarity with Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) and/or Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) methodologies
• Experience with gas storage, transmission, or distribution assets desirable
• NEBOSH, IOSH, or equivalent safety qualification desirable

Key Skills

• Leadership and team development
• Contractor and stakeholder management
• Asset reliability and maintenance strategy development
• Budget and contract management
• Root cause analysis and continuous improvement
• Cross-functional coordination and communication
• Strong understanding of process safety and functional safety systems