Energy & Asset Management Head of Technical Compliance Blackburn (Head office)

Due to our ongoing growth, we are looking for a Head of Technical Compliance to play a leading role in the growth and management of our Energy & Asset Management team in our Blackburn office.

Location Blackburn

About the role

The role will entail collaborating with the E&AM operational teams to establish a unified method for consistently collecting asset information. It will also involve reviewing and developing reactive and planned maintenance activity programs to ensure compliance with statutory and contractual requirements, as well as implementing industry best practices.

Key responsibilities

• Establish an asset compliance baseline to support the business in understanding the statutory requirements for maintaining new and existing client installed assets
• Develop the existing asset management strategy in collaboration with the E&AM Director, so that we have a clear set of compliance objectives and a consistent and embedded approach to managing our compliance obligations consistently across all our operating regions.
• Ensure our asset registers and maintenance plans are developed and maintained to the highest standards with all relevant work activities allocated to the contract assets. This will involve working with the contract operational teams to identify risk areas/ contracts where asset information may need to be refreshed and updated.
• Work in conjunction with the Vital Energi support teams to ensure that processes, procedures and systems are in place to capture any asset additions or deletions
• Work with the commissioning and operational teams to ensure full surveys are carried out in advance of contract commencement, liaising with the National mobilisation Manager to load asset conditional data into the Asset / CAFM System.
• Ensure that robust systems are in place and maintained to monitor and report statutory compliance and to ensure relevant compliance checks on paperwork demonstrates corrective action identified and completed by the operations team.
• Coordination of engineering paperwork, internal audits on site and supporting external audit assessments to ensure that E&AM operate complaint Gas Safe, F-Gas, BESA and NICEIC accreditation.
• Carry out regular reviews and interpretation of changes to the SFG20 maintenance specification and tracking how any changes affect our existing maintenance regimes.
• Ensure company and client (Health & Safety) and quality procedures are implemented, reviewed and reported
• Review and develop Reactive and Planned Maintenance programmes to ensure statutory & contractual compliance, and implementation of industry best practice
• Coordinate and undertake condition surveys of the Energy Centre's across the contract portfolios, identifying works required to maintain the properties to the required standards
• Ensure that at all times E&AM are compliant with their requirements to maintain heat networks to ensure there is no risk to the Landlord, Tenants, its staff and visitors or members of the public
• Develop and manage the authorised person/appointed person process and ensure this is effectively coordinated and managed across E&AM.
• Own the adjustments of existing PPM regimes on CAFM for new assets or any updates to existing regimes.
• Provide ad hoc support where required to business development regarding price estimation.

What you will need

• You will hold a relevant degree/diploma or professional qualification in an M&E discipline, or have equivalent experience
• You will have experience of managing engineering within the energy sector, or Hard services within the built environment.
• You will have a successful portfolio in a similar technical and/or compliance role.

Competetive Salary (depending upon experience)

Contributory Company Pension Scheme

Non-contributory death-in-service insurance

Employee Assistance Programme

33 Days Holiday including BH

Flexible working hours patterns

Discounted gym memberships across the UK

If you're interested in this position, please email your CV to our HR department using the button below.

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Applications will be processed within 28 days of receipt. If you have not heard from us within this time period it will mean that your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful. Thanks you for your interest in Vital Energi.

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