Engineering & Maintenance Manager

• NZT Power’s carbon capture plant
• NEP’s onshore compression facilities

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage all engineering and maintenance activities across NZT and NEP, ensuring safe, compliant, and efficient execution in line with site and corporate standards. 
• Develop and implement asset management and maintenance strategies for rotating plant, HV and LV electrical systems, and balance of plant equipment.
• Ensure all engineering risks are identified and managed through structured processes.
• Support Operational Readiness, commissioning, and handover activities, ensuring engineering systems, documentation, and competencies are established to enable safe and reliable operations. 
• Provide leadership and technical oversight for major maintenance events, including outages, shutdowns, and unplanned incidents, ensuring effective planning, execution, and learning capture. 
• Establish and maintain maintenance programmes, including Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM), statutory inspections, and condition-based maintenance strategies, driving continuous improvement and cost optimisation. 
• Ensure the availability and competency of discipline engineering support (electrical, mechanical, C&I), leveraging both site-based and corporate engineering resources as required. 
• Lead the management of HV electrical systems, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements, safe systems of work, and authorised person frameworks. 
• More responsibilities can be found on the Role Profile. 

Minimum Requirements

• Degree qualified (or equivalent) in an Engineering discipline. 
• Significant experience within the energy or process industries, preferably within major hazard or COMAH regulated environments. 
• Demonstrable experience managing complex industrial assets, including rotating equipment, HV electrical systems, and process plant infrastructure. 
• Proven leadership experience at a senior level within an operational or maintenance environment. 
• Strong understanding of asset integrity, reliability engineering, and maintenance management principles. 
• Ability to operate at both strategic and operational levels, managing long-term planning alongside day-to-day performance. 

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