Equipment Manager – Energy Services
Location: Great Yarmouth, Norfolk or Aberdeen.
Role Overview
The Energy Services Equipment Manager leads the global management of Energy Services assets equipment, ensuring effective maintenance planning, asset availability, and lifecycle control across all operational locations. The role is responsible for driving consistency, compliance, and performance across the equipment fleet.
A key accountability of the role is ensuring full IFS compliance, with accurate asset data, maintenance plans, and reporting embedded into daily operations. The Equipment Manager establishes an integrated global equipment function that supports operational readiness, cost control, regulatory compliance and continuous improvement across the business.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
* Own and manage the end‑to‑end asset lifecycle for all Energy Services equipment, from mobilisation and operation through maintenance, upgrade, relocation and retirement.
* Develop, implement and maintain standardised asset lifecycle procedures, ensuring consistent application across all regions.
* Ensure full IFS compliance, with accurate asset records, maintenance plans, work orders, cost coding and documentation maintained at all times.
* Ensure all maintenance costs are correctly coded, captured and reported in IFS in line with company financial controls.
* Architect and approve all planned maintenance programmes, maintenance intervals, failure mode strategies and performance standards implemented by technical teams.
* Review and audit maintenance work orders, task execution and close‑out quality across all regions to ensure global consistency.
* Drive monthly scheduling and planning meetings, maintaining accurate equipment location, status and readiness data within IFS.
* Ensure Operations Managers raise and manage work orders within IFS; regularly audit compliance and data quality.
* Support and deliver IFS training for Operations, Engineering, Workshop and Offshore personnel to ensure effective use of the system.
* Act as focal point for improving IFS data accuracy, discipline and reporting across Energy Services.
* Act as first point of contact for operations and sales teams regarding equipment availability, certification compliance, capability and readiness.
* Support Regional Operations Teams to ensure the right equipment is available for scheduled work, including cross‑regional mobilisation where required.
* Ensure X‑hire equipment is fit for purpose prior to use, including functional testing and auditing certification when required.
* Provide technical equipment support to onshore and offshore operations teams as required.
* Manage IFS work orders for equipment upgrades, improvements and modifications, coordinating with Engineering, Workshops and Operations.
* Review and approve Management of Change (MOC) documentation for all equipment upgrades and modifications, ensuring risks are assessed, controlled and costed.
* Support Engineering and Operations teams when new assets are introduced into the fleet, including maintenance strategies, operating procedures and critical spares requirements linked to the NPD process.
* Produce a monthly global asset utilisation report and summary for the Energy services SLT.
* Lead forecasting for asset utilisation, capacity planning and global availability.
* Review all reports related to equipment failures or issues and ensure lessons learned are communicated.
* Issue technical alerts to offshore teams as required, with a minimum target of one technical alert per month.
* Assist Operations Managers with CAPEX justifications for major maintenance scopes, refurbishments or equipment replacements.
* Support Stores and Supply Chain teams to ensure critical spare parts are identified, stocked and available to support fleet reliability.
* Ensure all asset documentation, certifications and records are correctly controlled, with documents stored correctly in line with the process.
* When required, visit global facilities on behalf of SLT to audit equipment condition, maintenance standards and readiness.
Key Skills, Knowledge and Experience
* Proven experience managing equipment readiness, reliability and lifecycle performance across multiple sites or regions.
* High level of competence using IFS (or equivalent CMMS/ERP) to manage asset registers, maintenance planning, work orders, cost coding, reporting and compliance.
* Demonstrated ability to develop, implement and govern asset lifecycle and maintenance procedures, ensuring consistency, audit readiness and practical application within live operational environments.
* Solid technical understanding of maintenance strategies, certification and inspection requirements and operational risk control.
* Proven experience in cross‑functional and international stakeholder management, effectively influencing Operations, Engineering, Workshops, QHSE, Supply Chain, Finance and Commercial teams.
* Experience supporting CAPEX justifications, maintenance cost control, utilisation optimisation and asset performance reporting.
* Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate technical and system data into clear operational insight and SLT‑level reporting.
* Good working knowledge of asset management frameworks, such as ISO 9001 – Quality Management System (QMS).
* Reliability Engineering / Root Cause Analysis (RCA) & Management of Change (MOC).
* Risk Assessment and Hazard Management and exposure to Lean/Continuous Improvement methodologies (e.g. 5S, 5whys, Kaizen, Six Sigma).
James Fisher and Sons are committed to taking positive action on diversity and strongly encourage applications for candidates from all backgrounds. We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer.
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