Shutdown Manager

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THE OPPORTUNITY – SHUTDOWN MANAGER

• Accountable for developing and executing the life-of-asset shutdown strategy for the Morecambe Asset.
• This includes end-to-end leadership of all onshore and offshore shutdowns, covering planning, contractor mobilisation, operations readiness, execution, and plant restart. The role ensures shutdowns are delivered safely, efficiently, and in alignment with production and late-life asset goals.

AND NOW FOR THE TECHNICAL BIT…

Once in role, you will be accountable for:

Strategy and Scope Management

• Develop and maintain the life-of-asset shutdown strategy ensuring alignment with asset and company strategic objectives.
• Apply risk-based tools to screen and prioritise shutdown scopes, ensuring only safety-critical, value-adding, and economically justified work is executed.

HSE and Incident-Free Delivery

• Champion a culture of safety and operational discipline, ensuring shutdowns are delivered incident-free.
• Ensure that all shutdown activities are planned and executed in alignment with Spirit Energy’s HSE management system and control of work requirements.

Shutdown Planning and Readiness

• Deliver all shutdowns in compliance with Spirit’s Shutdown Management Standard
• Manage all phases of the shutdown lifecycle — including scope freeze, mobilisation, execution, and closeout — ensuring clear control of scope changes.
• Lead integration across disciplines (operations, engineering, maintenance, integrity, projects) to ensure schedule and work-pack readiness.

Execution and Operational Leadership

• Assume hub leadership responsibilities during execution, overseeing and ensuring integration of offshore and terminal activities.
• Ensure efficient plant handover from operations to minimise production downtime.
• Maintain full compliance with HSE, regulatory, and technical standards throughout shutdown execution.

Commercial and Risk Management

• Define, gain alignment with internal stakeholders and own the shutdown delivery strategy and contracting model.
• Manage contractor performance against clearly defined scopes, KPIs, and deliverables.
• Lead shutdown cost management — from budgeting and forecasting to final reconciliation — with robust risk and contingency planning.

Stakeholder Management

• Act as the single point of accountability for shutdowns on the asset
• Provide regular performance updates and decision-making support to the Asset Leadership Team.
• Influence cross-functional teams to ensure shutdown success, even without direct authority.

Leadership and Team Management

• Strong People Leadership: Lead diverse teams, both onshore and offshore, including Spirit staff, contractors, and managed services.
• Decision-Making Under Pressure: Make timely, well-informed decisions during high-pressure shutdown execution.
• Influencing Without Authority: Align and motivate cross-functional stakeholders without formal control.

ABOUT YOU

You’ll need to have an engineering degree, or something similar.We are looking for candidates who have a deep knowledge of both onshore and offshore shutdown planning, execution and best practice sharing. You will have to have a strong grasp of operations, maintenance and integrity requirements for late-life assets. Our preferred candidate will have good commercial awareness being able to manage a multi-million pound budget with a clear focus on value, efficiency and cost controls. Offshore certification is a must for this role for site visits.

To be successful in this role you will have:

• A decisive leader who sets high standards and drives performance – leading through [senior] leaders to deliver through their teams. Is agile, flexible, open to challenge and able to challenge appropriately.
• Great communication skills that informs/shares knowledge clearly and unambiguously, influences and persuades in a constructive way, sometimes influencing a change in the course of conversations, to gain agreement and collaboration.
• Demonstrable experience in complex and ambiguous situations – able to adopt a calm and composed mentality that promotes proactivity and deals with disagreements, problems and issues in an open and constructive manner.
• Leads and promotes organisational change; makes collaborative, high-quality and timely decisions; takes informed risks and learns from failures.
• Builds and maintains a professional network, leads and contributes credibly to industry conversations on important issues; seeks to create and maintain good relationships internally and externally across various organisational levels; puts other people at ease and quickly builds rapport.

In addition to technical knowledge and credibility, we are searching for a someone who lives our values of Agility, Collaboration, Courage, Care and Delivery, enables and supports change and brings fresh and dynamic thinking.

But we’re not just about energy, we’re about Spirit

At Spirit Energy we believe that embracing inclusion, diversity, and equality allows for better collaboration and innovation. Therefore, we seek talent from every avenue, and offer flexible and part time working to support our colleagues personal development and promotion. Offering our teams competitive benefits and opportunities of development and skill building, we believe that our colleagues can shape the future of the UK Energy Sector. If you’re excited to shape the future of energy then apply today!