Equipment Manager – Energy Services
Permanent position
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

The Role:
The Energy Services Equipment Manager leads the global management of Energy Services assets equipment, ensuring effective maintenance planning, asset availability, and lifecycle control across all operational locations. The role is responsible for driving consistency, compliance, and performance across the equipment fleet.

A key accountability of the role is ensuring full IFS compliance, with accurate asset data, maintenance plans, and reporting embedded into daily operations. The Equipment Manager establishes an integrated global equipment function that supports operational readiness, cost control, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement across the business.

This role provides global technical, system, and governance leadership for Energy Services equipment, ensuring asset lifecycle control with IFS compliance.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Asset Lifecycle & IFS Governance:

• Own and manage the end-to-end asset lifecycle for all Energy Services equipment, from mobilisation and operation through maintenance, upgrade, relocation, and retirement.
• Develop, implement, and maintain standardised asset lifecycle procedures, ensuring consistent application across all regions.
• Ensure full IFS compliance, with accurate asset records, maintenance plans, work orders, cost coding, and documentation is maintained at all times.
• Ensure all maintenance costs are correctly coded, captured, and reported in IFS in line with company financial controls.

Maintenance Planning & Execution:

• Architect and approve all PM programs, maintenance intervals, failure mode strategies, and performance standards implemented by technical teams.
• Review and audit maintenance Work orders, task execution, and close out quality across all regions to ensure global consistency.
• Drive monthly scheduling and planning meetings, maintaining accurate equipment location, status, and readiness data within IFS.

IFS Adoption, Training & Assurance:

• Ensure Operations Managers are correctly raising and managing work orders within IFS; regularly audit compliance and data quality.
• When required Support and deliver IFS training for Operations, Engineering, Workshop, and Offshore personnel to ensure effective use of the system for maintenance and asset management.
• Act as the focal point for improving IFS data accuracy, discipline, and reporting across Energy Services.

Equipment Readiness & Operational Support:

• Act as the first point of contact for operations and sales teams regarding equipment availability, certification compliance, capability, and readiness.
• Support Regional Operations Teams to ensure the right equipment is available for scheduled work, including cross regional mobilisation where required.
• Ensure X hire equipment is fit for purpose prior to use, including when required witnessing functional testing and auditing certification.
• Provide technical equipment support to onshore and offshore operations teams as required.

Upgrades, Modifications & Change Control:

• Manage IFS work orders for equipment upgrades, improvements, and modifications, coordinating with Engineering, Workshops, and Operations.
• Review and approve Management of Change (MOC) documentation for all equipment upgrades and modifications, ensuring risks are assessed, controlled and costed.
• Support Engineering and Operations teams when new assets are introduced into the fleet, including maintenance strategies, operating procedures, and critical spares requirements linked to the NPD process.

Performance Reporting & Continuous Improvement:

• Produce a monthly global asset utilisation report and summary for the Energy services SLT.
• Lead forecasting for asset utilisation, capacity planning, global availability.
• Review all Reports related to equipment failures or issues and ensure lessons learned are communicated.
• Issue technical alerts to offshore teams as required, with a minimum target of one technical alert per month.

CAPEX, Cost Control & Compliance:

• Assist Operations Managers with CAPEX justifications for major maintenance scopes, refurbishments, or equipment replacements.
• Support Stores and Supply Chain teams to ensure critical spare parts are identified, stocked, and available to support fleet reliability.
• Ensure all asset documentation, certifications, and records are correctly controlled, with documents stored correctly in line with the process.

Global Oversight & Assurance:
When required, visit global facilities on behalf of SLT to audit equipment condition, maintenance standards, and readiness.

What we’re looking for:
A process‑driven professional with strong PMO experience with experienced in authoring, implementing, and maintaining operational and asset management procedures.
In addition, able to effectively translate corporate asset management and governance requirements into practical operational application.

Key skills, knowledge and experience: 

• Proven experience managing equipment readiness, reliability, and lifecycle performance across multiple sites or regions.
• High level of competence using IFS (or equivalent CMMS/ERP) to manage asset registers, maintenance planning, work orders, cost coding, reporting, and compliance.
• Demonstrated ability to develop, implement, and govern asset lifecycle and maintenance procedures, ensuring consistency, audit readiness, and practical application within live operational environments.
• Solid technical understanding of maintenance strategies, certification and inspection requirements, and operational risk control.
• Proven experience in cross‑functional and international stakeholder management, effectively influencing Operations, Engineering, Workshops, QHSE, Supply Chain, Finance, and Commercial teams.
• Experience supporting CAPEX justifications, maintenance cost control, utilisation optimisation, and asset performance reporting.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate technical and system data into clear operational insight and SLT‑level reporting.
• Good working knowledge of asset management frameworks, such as ISO 9001 – Quality Management System (QMS).
• Reliability Engineering / Root Cause Analysis (RCA) & Management of Change (MOC).
• Risk Assessment and Hazard Management & Exposure to Lean/Continuous Improvement methodologies (e.g. 5S 5whys, Kaizen, Six Sigma).

*This role is to be based at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk therefore, you will need to be able to commute to this location.

Why join us?
Competitive benefits tailored to the division.
Opportunities for career growth and visibility across the organisation.
A supportive, inclusive culture that values your ideas and contributions.
Work that truly makes a difference in safety, innovation, and global capability.

About Us:
James Fisher is a global engineering services company with over 50 years of experience delivering complex offshore energy projects in some of the world’s most challenging environments. We operate across Energy, Defence, and Maritime Transport, leveraging cutting-edge technology and deep expertise to support the full lifecycle of our customers’ assets.

In the Energy Division, we provide safe, efficient solutions across oil & gas and renewables - from well support and full-field decommissioning to integrated services for offshore wind and expert subsea inspection, repair, and maintenance. Our work helps operators extend asset life, reduce downtime, and respond rapidly to operational challenges, driving the global shift toward a cleaner, more sustainable future.

Visit our website at: www.james-fisher.com

If this sounds like the ideal next step in your career, then click ‘apply’ now! 

Due to the volume of applications, we receive for our vacancies, on occasion applications may close before the deadline, so please apply early to avoid disappointment. 

James Fisher and Sons are committed to taking positive action on diversity and strongly encourage applications for candidates from all backgrounds. We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and recognise that our success depends on our talented and diverse workforce.