Role Overview
We are looking for a Technical Support Lead to support the delivery of multiple asset integrity, reliability improvement, life extension, maintenance improvement, and decommissioning-related projects within the oil and gas sector.
The role will provide hands-on technical and project support to the Project Manager, helping to coordinate deliverables, review technical documentation, maintain project controls information, and support the successful delivery of concurrent workstreams.
This position would suit an experienced engineering, asset integrity, operations, maintenance, reliability, mechanical integrity, or technical project support professional who is comfortable working across several scopes and producing high-quality reports, procedures, manuals, and project documentation.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the Project Manager across multiple concurrent technical projects.
- Assist with planning, progress tracking, deliverable coordination, and action management.
- Maintain deliverable registers and support document revision control.
- Review reports, procedures, manuals, presentations, cost estimate outputs, and subcontractor deliverables.
- Ensure documentation is clear, accurate, technically consistent, and aligned with project requirements.
- Prepare technical reports, presentations, summaries, and supporting documents where required.
- Coordinate input from technical specialists, subcontractors, internal project teams, operations teams, maintenance teams, and client stakeholders.
- Support risk tracking, issue resolution, meeting preparation, workshops, and follow-up actions.
- Provide flexible support across peaks in workload and changing project priorities.
Project Scopes
The role will support two main workstreams:
Decommissioning and abandonment cost estimation
Supporting a Class IV decommissioning and abandonment cost estimate for onshore and offshore oil and gas facilities, including technical reports, cost and schedule estimate documents, summary sheets, data books, and assurance of subcontractor-led outputs.
Asset integrity, reliability, operations and maintenance improvement
Supporting an asset integrity and reliability improvement project for an upstream oil and gas facility, with a strong focus on improving maintenance effectiveness and operational reliability. This includes work relating to Asset Integrity Management Systems, SECE/OCE identification, Performance Standards, maintenance management philosophies, preventative and predictive maintenance, RBI, IDMS, operating manuals, Integrity Operating Windows, Management of Change, technical manuals, training, and Re-HAZOP activities.
Required Experience
- Degree in Engineering or equivalent, preferably mechanical.
- 5–10 years’ relevant experience.
- Background in oil and gas, asset integrity, operations, maintenance, reliability, mechanical integrity, decommissioning, topsides, subsea, corrosion, or engineering consultancy environments.
- Experience supporting operational assets, maintenance improvement, reliability improvement, or asset life extension scopes.
- Experience reviewing or preparing technical reports, procedures, manuals, presentations, and project documentation.
- Strong coordination and stakeholder management skills.
- Good understanding of project delivery, document control, deliverable tracking, and quality assurance.
- Confident using Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint.
- Clear and professional written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred Experience
- Chartered Engineer or working towards chartership.
- Previous experience in a consultancy or asset integrity environment.
- Exposure to Asset Integrity Management Systems, RBI, IDMS, maintenance strategies, Performance Standards, operating manuals, Management of Change, decommissioning planning, or operational readiness.
- Experience coordinating subcontractor deliverables and supporting client-facing project delivery.
- Experience working with operations and maintenance teams to improve plant reliability, reduce risk, and move from reactive maintenance to preventative or predictive maintenance approaches.
Personal Attributes
- Hands-on, proactive, and delivery focused.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Well organised and able to manage multiple priorities.
- Flexible and comfortable working in a less structured project environment.
- Collaborative, culturally aware, and confident working with multidisciplinary teams.
- Able to produce clear, concise, professional documentation.
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