Location: Hybrid - 2/3 days Plymouth
Contract: 6 Months
Rate: £100 an hour Inside IR35
Are you an experienced Asset Management / Engineering leader looking to take ownership of lifecycle delivery across a complex, highly regulated environment. Acting as the senior technical authority for lifecycle asset management, you will shape engineering assurance, reliability, maintainability, asset integrity and whole-life asset strategies. This is a high-impact contract role for someone who can quickly assess the current position, strengthen governance and establish practical frameworks that improve asset performance, resilience and long-term value.
Key Responsibilities
·Define and implement lifecycle management frameworks and standards.
·Develop maintenance, intervention and renewal strategies.
·Establish asset criticality and lifecycle planning methodologies.
·Strengthen engineering governance and assurance.
·Lead reliability, maintainability and asset integrity improvement.
·Develop risk-based and reliability-centred maintenance approaches.
·Identify systemic asset risks and failure trends.
·Define asset management requirements for major capital programmes.
·Ensure maintainability and operability are considered through design and handover.
·Challenge technical solutions where lifecycle requirements are not adequately addressed.
·Advise senior leadership on engineering, asset and lifecycle risks.
·Establish scalable methodologies suitable for wider Group adoption.
Key Skills
·10+ years' experience in engineering and asset management leadership.
·Strong lifecycle planning, maintenance and engineering assurance experience.
·Proven experience in reliability, maintainability and/or asset integrity.
·Experience in complex, asset-intensive and highly regulated environments.
·Strong technical governance and stakeholder management capability.
·Experience supporting major capital programmes.
·Ability to operate credibly with senior engineering and executive stakeholders.
Qualifications
·Engineering, Asset Management or related technical background, or significant equivalent experience.
·Chartered professional status preferred/required depending on discipline.
·IAM Diploma or equivalent asset management qualification desirable.
Please note that this role will require UK security clearance.
If you are interested and qualified, please apply or email (url removed)
Salary description
£100.00 - £100.00 per hour