Department: Engineering

Reports to: Chief Technical Officer

Salary: Competitive

The Role

Join us in our newly created position as Head of Engineering, where you’ll shape the future of our engineering capability and help us deliver safely, responsibly and with purpose. Reporting to the CTO, you’ll lead a team of talented discipline experts in a culture built on our CLEAR values: Communication, Learning, Empowerment & Accountability, and Respect.

Communication sits at the heart of this role. You’ll create clarity of direction for engineering teams, build strong relationships across the business and represent Serica confidently and accurately with regulators and industry partners. Your ability to listen, influence and communicate with transparency will set the tone for the entire function.

Through Learning, you’ll champion continuous improvement — strengthening engineering standards, developing your people by honing skills training and ensuring we remain curious, innovative and committed to technical excellence. You’ll nurture a high‑performing team that grows through shared knowledge and honest reflection.

We believe great leaders Empower others and take Accountability for delivering results. As our senior technical authority, you’ll guide critical decisions, resolve complex issues and ensure we meet our regulatory obligations with integrity. You’ll create an environment where engineers feel trusted to use their expertise, confident in their responsibilities and proud of the impact they make.

Above all, you’ll foster a culture of Respect. This means welcoming diverse views, valuing professional judgement and ensuring safety, wellbeing and a sense of fairness shape every decision. You’ll encourage collaboration, model integrity and support behaviours that reflect who we are and how we work.

This is a senior leadership appointment requiring strong judgement, credibility with executive stakeholders, and the ability to balance technical, operational and commercial priorities.

If you’re motivated by leading people, strengthening standards and making a meaningful contribution in a values‑driven business, we’d love to hear from you.

What we are looking for in potential candidates:

We’re seeking a senior engineering leader with strategic perspective, strong technical judgement and executive‑level credibility to lead Serica Energy’s Engineering function.

Leadership & Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership and clear direction for the Engineering function across all operated assets
• Act as the Company’s senior engineering authority, providing executive‑level technical assurance on complex and high‑risk matters
• Safeguard asset integrity, ensuring engineering support is delivered safely, effectively and in full regulatory compliance
• Set and maintain robust engineering governance, standards and assurance frameworks
• Build, develop and succession‑plan a high‑performing engineering leadership team, fostering a culture of technical excellence, independent judgement and professional integrity
• Engage confidently with regulators, industry bodies and senior internal stakeholders
• Ensure engineering capability, resourcing and budgets are aligned to both short‑term operational priorities and longer‑term strategic objectives

Experience & Qualifications

• Degree qualified in an Engineering discipline with Chartered status
• Extensive senior engineering leadership experience within upstream oil & gas, ideally in the UKCS
• Deep understanding of asset integrity management, engineering governance and regulatory frameworks
• Strong commercial awareness with the ability to make sound decisions in complex technical environments
• Proven ability to influence and advise at Executive Leadership Team level, including communicating complex technical matters to non‑technical stakeholders

Your future at Serica Energy

Our Culture

Serica offers the opportunity to be part of a busy, vibrant working environment with a strong culture rooted in mutual respect and trust.

We are passionate about building an inclusive culture that attracts and encourages diversity. We want our employees to feel that they can bring their true self to work, as we recognise the potential that this unlocks and the value that it brings.

We have created an environment that puts people at the heart of everything we do, based on a shared set of values.  This means not just doing the essentials of looking after everyone’s health, safety and wellbeing but their development, their sense of belonging and their success.  Only by making our values a real part of everyday life at Serica can we achieve our goals and grow as individuals and together.

In real terms this means being truly supportive of the things that matter to our people.

What can a career at Serica Energy offer you?

We offer the opportunity to be supported with further training if required and access to competitive benefits such as:

• Company Pension
• Private Medical & Dental Insurance
• Health Cash Plan
• Share Save and Share Incentive PlanLife Assurance
• Group Income Protection
• Personal Accident Insurance and Business Travel.
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to Work
• Electric Vehicle Scheme

We also offer the opportunity to work flexibly.

Serica’s Equal Opportunity statement

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunities employer and conduct our recruitment and selection process in a fair and consistent manner that does not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, sex or sexual orientation, religion or belief. 

Serica will make reasonable adjustments in line with the Equality Act 2010.

Recruitment Process

We recognise that recruitment is a two-way process.

We will acknowledge all applications and communicate clearly with candidates throughout the process.  If you are unsuccessful, we will let you know. We will also provide advance information on interview question areas, as well as post interview feedback, for candidates attending this stage of the process. 

Serica will make reasonable adjustments during the interview process if required.

If you would like to apply for the role, please send a copy of your CV to our recruitment team, recruiting@serica-energy.com.