Offshore Shutdown Maintenance Focal Point in Stoke-on-Trent

About the Role

Coordinate and ensure full readiness for maintenance activities during shutdown, including SAP work order accuracy, material availability, safety-critical work, and permit preparation. Liaise across disciplines to manage backlog reviews, isolation strategies, ESD testing, and provide continuous updates to support safe and efficient execution.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for ensuring all maintenance SAP Work Orders have all the relevant information, is accurate and is ready to execute ahead of the shutdown.
• Support Materials Focal Point ensuring the correct materials are available.
• Working with the Onshore Maintenance Lead support detailed reviews of the maintenance backlog and ensure key scopes are included in the shutdown plan.
• Support the Safety Critical Work that must be executed during the shutdown.
• Draft deferrals for any Safety Critical activities not to be executed during the shutdown.
• Working with the Shutdown- Operations Focal Point develop an efficient ESD testing and blowdown trial strategy, gaining ICP agreement that all shutdown Verification tasks will be met.
• Liaise closely with Critical Equipment Register updates, ensuring key scopes are included in the shutdown.
• Liaise closely with Maintenance Job Responsible Engineers, ensuring their scopes are prepared as per Work Management Process.
• Support the Flange Manager – closely liaising with the Team Lead Mechanical and Flange Manager throughout the Shutdown Process.
• Review and approve all Maintenance Workpacks.
• Ensure pre-shutdown offshore visits are completed to ensure 100% readiness.
• Prepare maintenance team rota for cover during key shutdown dates.
• Close liaison with onshore Maintenance Lead supporting the asset.
• Close liaison with offshore Maintenance Supervisor and all Lead Technicians.
• Regular visits offshore to ensure visibility across all shifts.
• Provide regular shutdown updates across all shifts.
• Support the Maintenance status updates at weekly shutdown meetings.
• Regular communication and working relationship with Shutdown Delivery Lead.
• Ensure work orders in SAP have all the scope detail and ready for execute.
• Liaise with the PSSR coordinator and advise of the PSSR process.
• Understand and ensure compliance with appropriate technical and Maintenance standards and specifications are met and adhered to.
• Close liaison with EA3s and TAs to ensure all Technical Queries have been closed out and approved.
• Prepare all shutdown scope permits, working across disciplines (co-ordinating support from other disciplines as necessary), including presenting permits at Shutdown permit meetings.
• Liaising with the REP co-ordinate efficient isolation strategies for all electrical work.
• Manage the production of annual ESD testing packs, utilising other discipline support as necessary.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent industry experience in similar role.

Required Skills

• Maintenance discipline competence for the Morecambe Hub CPP Offshore Asset.
• Able to quickly adapt as per the needs of the organisation during the Shutdown.
• Production and operations integrity awareness.
• Proficient in the use of Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
• SAP Awareness.
• Strong safety awareness.
• Drive and performance delivery focus, embraces change and continual improvement.
• Collaborative style and focus on teamwork.
• Demonstrable cross discipline Leadership capability.
• Ability to self-manage and prioritise time-bound work demands.

Preferred Skills

• Significant industry experience in a similar role.
• Demonstrable experience dealing with the safe and efficient execution of work during shutdowns.
• Demonstrable experience of conducting thorough risk assessment, with a clear understanding of ALARP, acceptable risk and identification of suitable mitigating control.
• Experience and thorough understanding of how plant is safely re-instated using completions systems and PSSRs (Plant Re-instatement).
• Examples of communicating with personnel from different disciplines and areas of the business.