Engineering & Maintenance Manager

Engineering & Maintenance Manager

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Engineering & Maintenance Manager to lead engineering integrity, maintenance delivery and asset reliability at our COMAH Upper Tier gas storage facility.

Reporting as a key member of the Site Leadership Team, you will be accountable for engineering governance, maintenance strategy, regulatory compliance and the long-term integrity of both above-ground and sub-surface assets. This is a hands-on leadership role, managing a skilled engineering team and specialist contractors while ensuring safe, reliable and efficient operations.

Key Responsibilities

Lead and develop the engineering and maintenance team, ensuring competency and continuous improvement.
Own engineering governance, maintenance strategy and asset integrity across the site.
Maintain compliance with COMAH and relevant legislation including PSSR, DSEAR, PUWER, LOLER, ATEX and Electricity at Work Regulations.
Maintain the COMAH Safety Report and act as the principal engineering interface with regulators.
Lead process safety activities, Management of Change (MOC) and functional safety governance.
Manage mechanical integrity programmes, pressure systems, statutory inspections and risk-based maintenance.
Oversee well integrity and sub-surface engineering activities, working with specialist contractors.
Plan and deliver planned shutdowns and major maintenance outages.
Develop and optimise the CMMS, maintenance procedures and reliability programmes.
Lead technical investigations, root cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives.
Manage engineering contractors, maintenance budgets and technical standards.

About You

You'll be a Chartered Engineer (or working towards chartership) with significant engineering leadership experience in a high-hazard process industry such as oil & gas, petrochemical, LNG, chemical processing or gas storage.

You'll have:

Strong knowledge of COMAH and process safety management.
Experience leading engineering and maintenance teams.
Proven delivery of major shutdowns and maintenance programmes.
Excellent understanding of mechanical integrity, asset management and maintenance systems (CMMS).
Broad engineering knowledge across mechanical, electrical and control/instrumentation disciplines.
Strong leadership, communication and problem-solving skills.

Desirable

Experience within gas storage or transmission.
Well Integrity Management System (WIMS) knowledge.
NEBOSH/IOSH qualification.
Experience with Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) or Risk-Based Inspection (RBI).Rullion celebrates and supports diversity and is committed to ensuring equal opportunities for both employees and applicants