Overview
In this role you lead day-to-day maintenance across UK transmission assets, coordinating planned, corrective, and troubleshooting work. You will guide technicians and contractors, align offshore activities, and champion safe, high-quality delivery. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to keep the weekly work schedule on track while promoting a strong safety culture and continuous skill development. This is a hands-on leadership position at the heart of our transmission operations.
Pay / Benefits
- salary
- pension
- benefits
Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate planned, corrective, troubleshooting, and campaign activities with a focus on safety, efficiency, and quality.
- Supervise and coach technicians, specialists, and contractors; support competence development and knowledge sharing.
- Coordinate personnel, offshore logistics, tools, equipment, materials, and work-pack readiness with the Transmission Manager and support teams.
- Provide immediate technical support; escalate complex issues; contribute to troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and defect elimination.
- Promote a strong safety culture through visible leadership, risk management, toolbox talks, safety briefings, observations, near-miss reporting, and stop-work authority.
- Maintain accurate work orders, technical records, parts usage, and supporting documentation in SAP or other approved systems.
Key requirements
- Strong maintenance execution and troubleshooting across electrical, mechanical, control, and related systems.
- Safety leadership with practical knowledge of safe systems of work, lifting operations, working at height, and incident investigation.
- Experience supervising technicians, specialists, or contractors with clear direction and coaching.
- Understanding of work management processes and ability to maintain accurate records in SAP or equivalent systems.
- Relevant technical qualification, apprenticeship, degree, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to make sound operational decisions, manage changing priorities, ensure accountability, and collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders.
- leadership
- coaching and mentoring
- communication
- electrical systems
- mechanical systems
- control systems
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