Hub Support Manager in Barrow in Furness

In operation since 1985, Barrow Gas Terminal is a key piece of the UK’s energy infrastructure and supports the Morecambe Bay gas fields. The terminal has played a long-standing role in processing and delivering natural gas, supporting both local employment and national energy supply. With a focus on safety, environmental sustainability and community engagement, we believe in operational excellence at every stage of production. If you are ready to take the next step in your career with a dynamic and energetic team, then we are keen to hear from you.

The Hub Support Manager is responsible for coordinating and integrating support functions across the asset to enable safe, efficient, and reliable operations onshore and offshore. The role acts as the central point for planning, logistics, and materials coordination, ensuring alignment between operations, maintenance, engineering, and support teams. The position provides leadership and governance of the planning function, ensuring that activities are prioritised, integrated, and executable across the hub. The role also owns logistics and materials coordination, ensuring timely availability of resources, equipment, and personnel to support operational delivery. Drives operational excellence by removing barriers to execution, improving coordination across functions, and ensuring that plans are delivered efficiently. Through strong stakeholder engagement and cross‑functional leadership, the role ensures alignment of priorities, effective communication, and optimised performance across the asset. The role is also required to provide reactive support and cover for core leadership roles across the asset.

Location: Barrow-in-Furness

Duration: 2-year contract

Contract Type: PAYE

Day Rate: TBC - For your application to be progressed, please ensure you provide a PAYE day rate banding expectation. Please note that there is no travel and accommodation allowance provided. Please only apply if you have existing right-to-work in the UK. Please outline notice period/availability to start.

Spirit Energy currently have a non-contractual hybrid working arrangement for all office-based workers. 4 days must be worked in the office with compulsory days being Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The fourth day worked in-office (either Monday or Friday) is of the worker’s choosing but should be in keeping with what is most efficient and effective for their team. The office is open 5 days a week for full time, in-office working if this is the contractor’s preference.

In role, you will be required to:

• Hub Coordination & Integration: Act as central coordination point across onshore and offshore operations. Ensure alignment between operations, maintenance, engineering, and support functions. Enable integrated delivery across the hub.
• Reactive Support & Recovery Leadership: Act as focal point for hub coordination during unplanned events and disruptions. Lead cross‑functional response to recover production and operational performance. Align priorities, resources, and logistics to enable safe and efficient recovery.
• Planning Function Leadership: Lead and govern the planning function (onshore and offshore planners). Ensure delivery of integrated 28D, 3M, and long‑term plans. Drive planning quality, consistency, and execution readiness.
• Logistics & Materials Management: Own logistics coordination across the hub. Ensure availability and timely delivery of materials, equipment, and personnel. Optimise supply chain and logistics performance.
• Execution Readiness & Delivery Support: Ensure activities are fully prepared and ready for execution. Identify and remove barriers to delivery. Support efficient execution of operational and maintenance plans.
• SIMOPS & Activity Coordination: Ensure effective coordination of simultaneous operations across the hub. Identify conflicts and constraints. Support safe and efficient execution of integrated activities.
• Stakeholder & Interface Management: Interface with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Projects. Ensure clear communication of priorities, risks, and constraints. Align cross‑functional delivery.
• Operational Performance & Improvement: Drive improvements in planning, logistics, and coordination processes. Monitor performance metrics (e.g. plan compliance, logistics efficiency). Promote operational excellence.
• Risk Management & Assurance: Ensure risks related to planning, logistics, and execution are identified and managed. Maintain visibility of operational risks. Support safe and compliant delivery.
• Support to Operations Leadership: Support Operations Manager and OIMs in delivering asset plans. Provide coordination and decision support across the hub. Enable efficient and aligned operations.

About you:

• Strong understanding of integrated planning and work management processes.
• Experience with O&M, logistics, materials management, and supply chain coordination.
• Knowledge of Control of Work (CoW) and SIMOPS management.
• Familiarity with planning systems (e.g. SAP, Primavera).
• Understanding of offshore and onshore operations environments.
• Data-driven performance monitoring and reporting.
• Degree or equivalent experience in engineering, operations, or related discipline (preferred).
• Experience in oil & gas / energy sector operations.
• Proven experience in planning, logistics, or operational coordination roles.
• Experience working across onshore and offshore environments (desirable).
• Holds relevant competency and training tickets required i.e. OIM, BOSEIT.

In addition to technical knowledge and credibility, we are looking for someone who lives our values - Agility, Collaboration, Courage, Care, and Delivery. A person who embraces and supports change, while ensuring the safe and efficient operation of a mature asset. We’re a truly pioneering energy transition company with a portfolio and ambitions that span the breadth of the energy transition. We’re continuing to break new ground, collaborating and thinking differently. We’re proud of our heritage. With more than 30 years of production, we’re maximising the potential of our existing assets and substantial gas reserves in the UK and Netherlands. Above all, we live by our commitment to safety in everything we do. Our portfolio is predominantly gas (96%), providing vital, primary energy to fuel our homes and businesses in the UK and Europe. Our strategy is focused on: Safely delivering production from our existing assets; Meeting and de-risking our decommissioning obligations, and Exploring strategic energy transition opportunities from our existing assets.