Maintenance Technical Authority

Location: Barrow-in-Furness 4 days in office 1 at home. Candidates should be based comutable distance to site or be willing to relocate for the duration of the 2 year PAYE project.

🚨 WE'RE HIRING – MAINTENANCE TECHNICAL AUTHORITY

📍 Location: Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria

🏭 Industry: Oil & Gas / Energy

🔧 Discipline: Maintenance Engineering / Asset Integrity

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 TopSet.

We are particularly interested in candidates with strong technical leadership capabilities and experience making risk-based decisions within high-hazard operational environments.