Head of Asset Management - Lifecycle Delivery

Location: Warrington
Contract Type: Contract / Long-Term Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced Head of Asset Management - Lifecycle Delivery to lead the organisation's approach to lifecycle management, engineering assurance, reliability, maintainability and asset integrity.

This is a senior technical leadership role, acting as the technical authority for lifecycle asset management and ensuring assets deliver maximum value throughout their lifecycle while balancing performance, risk and cost.

• Define enterprise lifecycle management frameworks and methodologies.
• Establish intervention, maintenance and renewal strategies.
• Embed whole-life cost and value principles into asset management.
• Develop and standardise asset criticality and lifecycle planning methodologies.
• Define and oversee the engineering technical authority framework.
• Ensure compliance with engineering standards and escalate technical risks.
• Lead reliability, integrity and risk-based maintenance programmes.
• Identify systemic reliability risks and failure trends.
• Drive improvements in asset reliability, availability and maintainability.
• Define asset management requirements for capital programmes and assure maintainability and operability at handover.
• Lead engineering, maintenance and lifecycle specialists.
• Advise Executive Leadership on engineering and lifecycle risks.
• Establish scalable frameworks and methodologies for wider Group adoption.

Essential:

• Minimum 10 years' engineering and asset management leadership experience.
• Extensive experience in lifecycle planning and engineering assurance.
• Proven experience developing reliability and maintenance strategies.
• Experience working within asset-intensive and highly regulated industries.
• Degree in Engineering, Asset Management or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Chartered Engineer or Chartered status within the relevant professional discipline.

Desirable:

• Experience leading enterprise engineering functions.
• Experience delivering asset integrity and reliability improvement programmes.
• Experience supporting major capital investment programmes.
• IAM Diploma or equivalent qualification.