Maintenance Delivery Manager

HAVE YOU GOT SPIRIT?

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 OPPORTUNITY – MAINTENANCE DELIVERY MANAGER

The Maintenance Delivery Manager ensures the ongoing fitness for service and reliability of asset infrastructure across both onshore and offshore operations. The role is accountable for the safe, efficient, and cost-effective delivery of all maintenance and integrity execution activities, ensuring assets remain available, compliant, and capable of meeting production demands.

The position holds accountability for delivering SAP-derived maintenance and integrity work scopes, including work order backlog, statutory, and anomaly (WSE) management, in line with agreed budgets and performance targets. Central to the role is the effective planning and deployment of resources to meet maintenance demand, ensuring the right capability and capacity are in place across the asset.

The Maintenance Delivery Manager owns the integrated maintenance scheduling process across the hub, ensuring alignment between operations, maintenance, and integrity priorities. The role plays a key part in Turnaround (TAR) planning and execution, contributing to safe and successful delivery of major maintenance events.

In addition, the role is accountable for critical equipment management processes, ensuring risks are identified, prioritised, and mitigated to protect asset integrity and operational continuity.

Through strong leadership, coordination, and performance management, the Maintenance Delivery Manager drives reliability, efficiency, and continuous improvement 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.  

AND NOW FOR THE TECHNICAL BIT…

In role, you will be required to:

Asset Integrity & Fitness for Service

• Ensure asset infrastructure remains fit for purpose, safe, and compliant at all times.
• Maintain integrity of plant and equipment in line with company standards and regulatory requirements.
• Proactive management of degradation, defects, and integrity threats.

Maintenance & Integrity Delivery

• Delivery of SAP-derived maintenance and integrity plans (including WSE and anomaly management).
• Execution of maintenance backlog in line with priority, risk, and business targets.
• Delivery of maintenance activities within agreed budget and performance parameters.

Resource Planning & Capability

• Effective workforce planning to meet maintenance demand across onshore and offshore operations.
• Ensure appropriate competence, capacity, and contractor support is in place.
• Optimise utilisation of resources to balance cost, efficiency, and delivery.

Maintenance Scheduling & Integration

• Ownership of integrated maintenance scheduling across the asset / hub.
• Alignment of maintenance plans with operations, production priorities, and shutdown windows.
• Optimisation of schedule adherence and execution efficiency.

Turnaround (TAR) Delivery Support

• Key contributor to Turnaround planning and execution.
• Ensure maintenance scopes are clearly defined, prioritised, and deliverable.
• Support safe, on-time, and on-budget delivery of TAR events.

Critical Equipment & Risk Management