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Shutdown Manager

Job Posted: 19 days ago

Salary: £ 55,000 - 60,000 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Norwich, Norfolk

Expire in: 9 days

Job Description

Shutdown Delivery Manager

Norwich

Full Time, Permanent: Monday to Friday (39hrs)

8am – 4pm (5pm on one day to hit 30hrs)

£55,000 – £60,000 per annum

Non-contractual annual bonus up to 18%

25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

Our client, a long-established and highly regarded chemical manufacturing business, is seeking an experienced Shutdown Delivery Manager (SDM) to join their Engineering leadership team.

This is a senior role responsible for planning, coordinating and delivering complex site shutdowns within a highly regulated industrial environment.

Proven experience managing and delivering complex site shutdowns is essential, ideally within a formal project-based planning and execution framework.

The Role

Reporting to the Deputy Head of Engineering, the Shutdown Delivery Manager will:

  * Develop forward schedules and detailed plans for all site shutdowns

  * Interface closely with Operations, Engineering Authority and Subject Matter Experts

  * Build and manage site-wide shutdown programmes

  * Prioritise and manage high-risk and high-value work packages

  * Manage subcontractor relationships

  * Coordinate internal engineering resources (Mechanical, EI&C, Maintenance)

  * Ensure compliance with UK legislation and site policies (including CDM Regulations 2015)

  * Oversee planning, scheduling, permitting, execution and commissioning handover

  * Work alongside Projects to integrate capital works into shutdown windows

  * Contribute to CAPEX planning and resource validation

  * Lead and motivate engineers and planners to ensure safe, compliant delivery

This role requires exceptional organisational ability, stakeholder management skills and experience delivering complex, time-critical engineering projects.

About You

Essential:

  * HNC/HND (or equivalent) in an Engineering discipline

  * Minimum 5 years’ management experience

  * Experience with CDM Regulations 2015

  * Proven track record planning and executing complex shutdowns or turnaround projects

  * Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills

  * Ability to manage competing priorities logically and effectively

  * Continuous improvement mindset

Desirable:

  * ILM Level 5 (or equivalent management qualification)

  * Membership of a recognised engineering body (e.g. IMechE)

  * Upper Tier COMAH site experience

  * Knowledge of instrumentation, PLC and control systems

  * Experience with LV & HV systems, Compex, Nucleonic devices, AutoCAD

What’s On Offer

  * Flexitime (ability to accrue up to 12 additional days leave)

  * Enhanced pension (matched contributions plus additional 2%, up to 10%)

  * Life assurance (3x salary)

  * Private medical cover

  * Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme

  * Gymflex & Cycle to Work schemes

  * Employee Assistance Programme

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