Mechanical Engineering Manager

Imperial Recruitment Group
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2 months ago
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Reporting to Head of Engineering COE

Based in: Teesside (Middlesbrough).

Salary: Negotiable - Whilst all salaries are graded, Sembcorp are keen to attract, retain and develop the highest calibre of colleague. The company also offer a market leading benefits package and annual bonus.

Position overview:

Working as the site Mechanical Engineering Manager, and reporting to the UK Head of Engineering Centre of excellence, the Mechanical Engineering Manager shall provide engineering accountability and governance for all compliance and technical issues associated with Sembcorp Assets. They are accountable for engineering strategies, procedures and policies across all assets. The role shall work closely with the Maintenance, Performance, Operations, Inspection, HSSEQ and Outage functions to ensure engineering governance, compliance and best practice is being adhered to at all times.

Key responsibilities:

Safety

  • Accountable for all safety and engineering standards, associated with the assets at Wilton and Flex.

  • Support the Safety Com programme and positively encourage a safety first culture

  • Accountable for the management of HSSE investigations, corrective actions and findings, across the Wilton Site and Flex.

  • Accountable for the management of all external audit investigation and corrective actions, across the Wilton Site and Flex.

  • Responsible for ensuring compliance of all internal and external auditing requirements, across the Wilton Site and Flex.

    Operational Asset Management

  • Is the Responsible Mechanical Engineer (RME) for the Wilton Site and Flex.

  • Accountable for setting engineering standards and processes, including competency requirements and the ownership of Wilton Engineering Management Procedures.

  • Accountable for ensuring policies and strategies are in place to maintain and operate equipment within the requirements of UK Legislation, across Wilton Sites and Flex.

  • Accountable for ensuring compliance to the relevant engineering standards and quality assurance/control in line with defined statutory, legislative and business standards.

  • Accountable for ensuring all asset related engineering performance figures (KPI’s) are maintained and reported to the business in a timely manner.

  • Accountable for setting priorities for engineering and maintenance activities, against the required business needs.

  • Accountable for engineering leadership to ensure strategic objectives of the business are met by initiating projects and solutions.

  • Accountable for the annual Capital and SRM projects programme, associated with engineering improvements in alignment with the long-term business plan and Integrity issues.

    Asset Life Plan and Continuous Improvement

  • Accountable for the overall Wilton Site and Flex Asset Life Plan, identifying long term engineering vulnerabilities, and producing maintenance policies for equipment.

  • Accountable for the continuous improvement process (RCA process), ensuring set actions are in accordance with asset priorities.

  • Accountable for actively seeking new and emerging technologies and methodologies to drive towards the “Best Available Technology”.

  • Accountable for ensuring an up to date and complete Technical Library, equipment criticality study, critical spares holding, 10-year plan, planned maintenance schedule and codal inspection program is in place and audited for compliance for the assets in their area.

    Other

  • Single point of accountability for all mechanical based decisions on the assets.

  • Provide out of hours support to the asset as and when required.

    To be considered for the role you will have:

  • Chartered Engineer (IMechE) or working towards

  • Degree qualified

  • Demonstrable experience in integrity management

  • Excellent management skills

  • IOSH Managing Safely or NEBOSH

    For more information on this opportunity please contact your retained recruitment partner Adam Pearson at Imperial Recruitment Group

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