STS Equipment Lead
Full-Time, Permanent
Seething, Norfolk
The Role:
As STS Equipment Lead, you will play a critical role in ensuring our global Ship-to-Ship operations have the equipment, inventory, and resources needed to operate safely, efficiently, and compliantly. Leading equipment maintenance, testing, renewal, and improvement activities, you will drive operational readiness while optimising asset performance, managing lifecycle costs, and supporting the highest standards of service delivery worldwide.
What you’ll be doing:
- Lead the global management of STS equipment and inventory, ensuring assets are available, compliant, and ready to support operational requirements (excluding Brazil, Uruguay, and Chile).
- Maintain accurate asset and inventory records, conducting audits and investigations to resolve discrepancies and strengthen inventory controls.
- Optimise stock levels and asset deployment to maximise utilisation while meeting operational demand.
- Oversee global equipment maintenance, inspection, testing, and certification programmes, ensuring all equipment remains fit for purpose and compliant with company, OEM, and regulatory requirements.
- Coordinate routine and ad hoc maintenance activities, ensuring equipment operating limits, exposure hours, and throughput thresholds are effectively managed.
- Partner with the LNG team to support LNG systems, ensuring preventative maintenance programmes are maintained and critical spares remain available.
- Manage budgets relating to spares, replenishment, equipment disposal, and freight, ensuring cost-effective asset lifecycle management.
- Lead asset renewal planning and support CAPEX investment proposals to maintain operational capability and long-term equipment reliability.
- Maintain accurate certification, testing, and maintenance records within ERP systems and support the efficient movement of assets and inventory globally.
- Act as the focal point for equipment standards and OEM requirements, working closely with Marine Assurance and Supply Chain teams to implement changes and best practices.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with global base partners, ensuring consistent service delivery, compliance, and operational readiness across the network.
- Manage the global base audit programme, working with HSEQ teams to ensure audit findings are addressed and closed out effectively.
- Provide leadership and development support to the STS Equipment Coordinator.
- Take ownership of global equipment management expenditure, ensuring activities are delivered within approved budgets.
- Champion the highest standards of HSEQ, compliance, and continuous improvement across all equipment management activities.
What we’re looking for:
- Significant experience in equipment management, asset maintenance, or a similar technical role, ideally within the marine, offshore, or energy sectors.
- Experience supporting STS operations or a comparable maritime, offshore, or operational environment.
- Strong understanding of HSEQ principles, equipment compliance, and regulatory requirements, with a commitment to maintaining the highest operational standards.
- Up-to-date knowledge of equipment management best practices, relevant legislation, industry standards, and asset lifecycle management.
- Excellent attention to detail, with a structured approach to governance, record keeping, and compliance.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build effective relationships across teams, suppliers, and external partners.
- A collaborative approach and proven ability to work effectively with operational, technical, and commercial stakeholders.
- Resilient and adaptable, with the ability to remain focused and make sound decisions when managing competing priorities.
- A proactive, solutions-focused mindset, with a drive to identify improvements and enhance operational performance.
- Demonstrates accountability, professionalism, and a strong commitment to teamwork and company values.
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 idaas and contributions
- Work that truly makes a difference in safety, innovation, and global capability
About Us:
James Fisher is a global engineering services company operating across Energy, Defence, and Maritime Transport. With a strong heritage in maritime operations, we now deliver innovative solutions in challenging environments. Our One James Fisher strategy is focused on building a unified, sustainable business within the Blue Economy, driving progress through technology, expertise, and collaboration.
With two centuries of maritime shipping and innovation, James Fisher is a trusted partner in the safe and efficient movement of the world’s critical resources. As a market leader in ship-to-ship transfer and coastal shipping, we help customers protect people, cargo and infrastructure while shaping the future of global maritime transport. You can find out more about Maritime transport here
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