Head of Technical Compliance

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.

At Vital Energi, we are heavily investing in new business systems to underpin our growth targets, so the successful candidate is expected to be involved in steering and advising the implementation of a new business-wide Asset Maintenance Management/ CAFM system with a core project team.

This role will involve the development of a business-wide comprehensive asset maintenance strategy which will be implemented to ensure full compliance to legislative requirements, as well as meet or exceed the asset life expectancies.

If so, we have an exciting opportunity to join our leadership team as Head of Technical Compliance. This role will provide specialist technical asset and compliance support to the Energy & Asset Management (E&AM) Operational delivery teams and senior management teams, ensuring that our assets are compliant, our registers are verified and reviewed on a regular basis and that the correct maintenance regimes are established and monitored.

• Plan and deliver effective property maintenance systems, ensuring value for money
• 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
• Provide ad hoc support where required to business development regarding price estimation.
• 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
• 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.
• Carry out regular reviews and interpretation of changes to the SFG20 maintenance specification and tracking how any changes affect our existing maintenance regimes.
• Establish an asset compliance baseline to support the business in understanding the statutory requirements for maintaining new and existing client installed assets.
• 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.
• Ensure company and client (Health & Safety) and quality procedures are implemented, reviewed and reported
• Report writing for a target audience at Senior Management level
• Plan and mobilise reliable services
• Review and develop Reactive and Planned Maintenance programmes to ensure statutory & contractual compliance, and implementation of industry best practice
• 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.
• Provide ad hoc support where required to distressed contracts.
• Develop and manage the authorised person/appointed person process and ensure this is effectively coordinated and managed across E&AM.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• Operate effective IT systems, particularly CAFM systems
• Own the adjustments of existing PPM regimes on CAFM for new assets or any updates to existing regimes.

Only applicants who are legally entitled to work in the UK and are currently resident in the UK are invited to apply.

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