Engineering Manager RCM

Location: Aberdeen, Livingston, Warwick, Bristol, Warrington, Peterborough, or Nottingham

Working pattern: Hybrid, with a minimum of 3 days a week on site

Travel: Regular travel across the project, stakeholder, and office locations as required

Location requirement: Candidates can be based from any of the listed office locations. The role supports a cross-border project spanning England and Scotland, with the majority of the delivery team based in England.

Salary: £61,000 - £76,000 + up to 6% Bonus

About Us: At National Gas, the work we do matters. As Britain's national gas network, we help keep the lights on, businesses running, and homes warm by maintaining the critical infrastructure that transports gas across Great Britain. While providing the energy security Britain relies on today, we're also helping transform the network for a clean energy future. Join us and help secure Britain's energy.

About the Role: To provide leadership for specialist engineering policy, asset management and second line engineering support across rotating machinery, compressor control and instrumentation assets. The role ensures that standards, asset strategies, technical governance, OEM/service bulletin management and assurance activities are maintained and improved to support safe, reliable, compliant and efficient operation of the National Transmission System.

What You'll Do:

• Provide Engineering & Asset Management services for rotating machinery and control assets, including second line operational support, investment and project support, asset health and system scoping, standards ownership, innovation transition into BAU, technical assurance and compliance activities.
• Establish clear reporting and performance management for key asset management services, including service levels, action tracking, evidence of closure and escalation routes for safety, compliance, reliability or availability risks.
• Lead or support the development and implementation of change programmes affecting compressor assets, control systems, remote monitoring, connected systems and asset data.
• Act as accountable manager for rotating machinery and compressor control assets, working with OEMs, specialist contractors, project teams and operational stakeholders to maintain safe and compliant asset performance.
• Oversee the management of OEM service bulletins, including capture, classification, applicability assessment, safety and availability screening, accountable action tracking, closure evidence and escalation of residual risk.
• Provide leadership across compressor asset health themes, including cab ventilation, fuel gas, gas generator systems, compressor auxiliary systems, control and instrumentation, remote monitoring and operational risk assessment interfaces.
• Manage team members who are SMEs for control, instrumentation and rotating machinery, responsible for asset and system strategy, asset health work scoping, ORAM support, standards updates, technical queries and deviations, quality assurance, compliance, operational support, investment delivery and regulatory funding.

Why this role Matters: This role is vital in ensuring the safe, reliable and efficient operation of the National Transmission System by providing technical leadership for rotating machinery, compressor controls and instrumentation assets. It drives engineering standards, asset strategies, governance and specialist support, helping to manage risk, improve asset performance and deliver effective investment and change programmes that maximise asset value and system resilience.

About You:

• Able to demonstrate capability in National Gas leadership qualities, including delivery through ambiguity, coaching and challenge, customer focus and performance excellence.
• Strong understanding of gas transmission operations, compressor stations and associated rotating machinery, control and instrumentation assets.
• Experience of operational or technical asset management in a gas transmission, utilities, petrochemical or comparable high-hazard environment.
• Strong appreciation of gas safety management systems, operational risk assessment, incident control, assurance and evidence-based closure of actions.
• Commercial and industry awareness, including the ability to work with OEMs, regulators, delivery partners and internal stakeholders to balance safety, compliance, resilience, value and deliverability.

Essential:

• Knowledge of compressor assets, gas generators, auxiliary systems, compressor control and instrumentation, associated OEM arrangements and the operational impacts of asset health, service bulletin and obsolescence decisions.
• Ability to lead policy, standards and work procedure ownership across rotating machinery and control.
• Experience of developing governance, triage and reporting processes for technical issues, including OEM bulletins, remote monitoring insights, operational risk assessments and action close-out evidence.

Security clearance: This role is subject to National Security Vetting (NSV). Candidates must be eligible to obtain and maintain Security Clearance (SC) throughout their employment.

What we Offer:

• Market-leading double-match pension (up to 12% company contribution)
• Annual performance bonus of up to 6%
• Access to the Tusker salary sacrifice car scheme
• 26 days holiday (plus statutory holidays)
• 10x salary life assurance and income protection
• Flexible benefits including healthcare, dental and technology options
• Family-friendly policies, wellbeing support and professional development opportunities

Inclusive Recruitment: We're building a workforce that reflects the communities we serve, championing diversity and creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is valued for their unique contribution. We support reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond. National Gas is a Disability Confident employer and signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant.