Head of Technical Compliance

Head of Technical Compliance

Would you like to be part of Vital Energi’s Strategy of Growth?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Who we are?

Vital Energi is a leading provider of renewable energy infrastructure and systems to the public and private sectors. We are supporting Hospitals, Universities, New Build developments, City wide developments and Industrial and Commercial clients to decarbonise their infrastructure. We continue to work on ground-breaking projects throughout the UK that are making a difference to achieve our Net Zero targets; even recently being recognised by our Industry Association when they awarded us the ‘Contribution to Net Zero’ award.

Vital Energi have delivered 15% year on year growth for over a decade and continue to deliver increased revenues supporting our 5-year plan to become a £500m turnover group.

The Role

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

The Person

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

Competencies:

• Excellent communication skills
• Demonstrable experience working with data and systems in a technical environment
• Plan and mobilise reliable services
• Operate effective IT systems, particularly CAFM systems
• Plan and deliver effective property maintenance systems, ensuring value for money
• Report writing for a target audience at Senior Management level

The company is opposed to all forms of discrimination and will select for employment, training and promotion on the basis of suitability for the job and/ or merit. It is company policy that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment than another on the grounds of sex, race, colour, age, ethnic or national origins, political affiliations, religious beliefs, marital status, physical disability or is disadvantaged by unjustifiable conditions or requirements.

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

Notice to Agency and Search Firm Representatives:

Vital Energi Utilities Ltd is not accepting unsolicited CVs from agencies and/or search firms for this job posting. CVs submitted to any Vital Energi Utilities Ltd employee by a third party agency and/or search firm without a valid written & signed search agreement, will become the sole property of Vital Energi Utilities Ltd. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired for this position as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral. Thank you.