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Technical Support Lead
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Technical Support Lead
Technical Support Lead – Oil & Gas Projects
(Asset Integrity, Reliability & Decommissioning Sub-Station Support)
About the Role
We are seeking a Technical Support Lead to provide hands-on technical and project support across multiple oil and gas asset-related projects. These include asset integrity, reliability improvements, life extension, maintenance optimisation, and decommissioning programmes, providing both onshore and offshore global support.
As a core team member, you will assist the Project Manager in coordinating deliverables, reviewing technical documentation, maintaining project controls, and ensuring seamless delivery across concurrent workstreams. This role suits an engineering or operations professional with experience in asset integrity, reliability enhancement, or decommissioning, with a focus on producing high-quality reports, procedures, and project documentation.
Key Responsibilities
Your core duties will include:
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Project Coordination & Delivery Support
- Assist the Project Manager across multiple concurrent projects, aiding in planning, execution, risk tracking, and issue resolution.
- Coordinate deliverable sequencing, progress tracking, resource allocation, and action item management.
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Document & Control Stewardship
- Maintain accurate deliverable registers and ensure robust document revision control systems.
- Review and validate technical reports, procedures, manuals, cost estimates, subcontractor outputs, and presentations for accuracy, consistency, and alignment with client/regulatory requirements.
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Technical Report Generation
- Prepare technical reports, summaries, presentations, and supporting documents (as needed).
- Contribute to data books, assurance reports, and subcontractor-led outputs for decommissioning estimates.
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Stakeholder & Specialist Coordination
- Engage with technical specialists, subcontractors, internal project teams, operations staff, maintenance teams, and client stakeholders to gather input.
- Ensure clear communication channels for multiple disciplines and project milestones.
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- Risk & Workload Flexibility
- Actively track project risk registers and support timely resolution of emerging issues.
- Adapt to workload peaks and evolving priorities, remaining flexible and resourceful in a dynamic environment.
Project Workstreams
The role will focus on two primary technical areas:
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Decommissioning & Depletion Facilities
- Class IV decommissioning and abandonment cost estimation – global support for onshore/offshore oil and gas facilities.
- Responsibilities:
- Develop technical reports, cost/schedule estimates, and summary sheets.
- Ensure data integrity and subcontractor deliverables pass technical assurance.
- Support offshore assets decommissioning, abandonment planning, and emergency response readiness.
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Asset Integrity & Reliability Optimisation
- Upstream asset integrity improvement project with an emphasis on maintenance effectiveness and operational reliability.
- Key activities include:
- Supporting Asset Integrity Management Systems (AIMS) and related regulatory compliance processes.
- Contributing to SECE/OCE evaluations, Performance Standards, and preventative/predictive maintenance statements.
- RBI (Risk-Based Inspection), IDMS (Inspection and Data Management Systems), and Integrity Operating Windows/Management of Change reviews.
- Drafting operating guidance, hazard assessments (Re-HAZOPs), and technical training materials.
Required Experience & Qualifications
- Degree qualification: Must be in engineering (preferably mechanical) or a related discipline.
- Professional experience: 5-10 years minimum in oil and gas asset management, reliability/integrity, maintenance optimisation, decommissioning, or engineering consultancy.
- Domain specialities: Practical experience in asset integrity, operations, reliability, maintenance, mechanical integrity, or decommissioning (onshore/offshore contexts preferred).
- Technical competencies:
- Experience supporting operational assets (e.g., topsides, subsea, ageing conviction NOC pipelines and corrosion deterioration analyses is plus).
- Proven ability to review/authorise technical documentation, including reports, procedures, and manuals.
- Strong understanding of cost estimation techniques, schedule planning, and documentation control.
- Tool proficiency:
- Microsoft Word, Excel (advanced modelling), PowerPoint, and SharePoint/CollaborativeNasdOutlook tools.
- Familiarity with EPC engineering software or industry-standard inspection equipment is advantageous.
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- Soft skills:
- Clear written/verbal communication for client-facing documentation.
- Excellent stakeholder management, negotiation, and conflict resolution capabilities.
- Detail-oriented, project methodical approach with an aptitude for structured reporting.
Preferred Additional Qualifications
- Chartered Engineer status (or equivalence) through IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) or equivalent.
- Hitachi Consultancy or industry consultancy experience.
- Exposure to: Asset Integrity Management System (AIMS), RBI, IDMS, maintenance strategies and an ability to improve asset reliability (shift from reactive to predictive maintenance), operating manuals, operating declarations, and REHAZOPs.
- Experience with Class II, III & IV projects (especially on offshore platforms, subsea facilities).
- Experience coordinating with subcontractors and leading client-facing presentations.
Personal Attributes
Candidates should exhibit the following personal strengths:
- Proactive, hands-on, and delivery-focused mindset.
- Strong workplace organisation, capable of managing multiple priorities.
- Flexible and resilient in a fast-chaced project environment.
- Collaborative attitude with multidisciplinary cultural awareness (onshore EPC projects common boundaries).
- Client-consultant balancing coordination – must be internally cohesive yet client-driven.
Preferred candidate must have a attitudes and problem-solving ability to run dependenta connect error preventative programs to evolving global risks in oil & gas.
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