Head of Marine Services

Overview

As Head of Services (UK), you will own the growth and performance of a UK marine services operation. You’ll lead the integration of an acquired business into a single, scalable service platform spanning commissioning, maintenance, repairs, upgrades, and support across vessels. You’ll balance strategic direction with hands-on leadership to drive safe, profitable service delivery and strong customer partnerships. This is a chance to shape an integrated, high‑performing organisation within a global maritime services group and influence its UK market presence.

Responsibilities

• Lead and further develop the UK services organisation
• Drive the integration of the newly acquired business into a single, scalable operation
• Deliver safe, efficient and profitable service delivery across a multi-discipline engineering environment
• Develop and nurture customer relationships to support business growth
• Lead a team of about 40 employees via a leadership team
• Own operational performance and contribute to financial results
• Foster collaboration, accountability and continuous improvement
• Represent the business within the UK maritime market

Key requirements

• Senior leadership experience within maritime, offshore, engineering or technical services
• Strong commercial awareness and business development capability
• Proven experience leading multidisciplinary operational teams
• Track record of delivering organisational change, growth and/or post-acquisition integration
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Ability to balance strategic leadership with delivery-focused execution
• Technical education and/or strong relevant industry experience
• Fluent in English
• No sponsorship available (right to work required)

• leadership presence
• stakeholder management
• communication
• multidisciplinary operations management
• engineering services delivery
• post-acquisition integration

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