Infrastructure Asset Manager

London

£65,000 - £75,000 DOE

Our client is a leading global consulting, construction engineering and operating firm. They work side by side with clients to build a more balanced, sustainable and resilient world.

They are one of the top global engineering firms and one of the few that operate the infrastructure they design.

Their Purpose: Committed to help with solving the great equation of the 21st century: successfully blending improved people's quality of life with supporting communities in their social and economic development, whilst drastically reducing carbon emissions and achieving vital 2050 net zero targets.

In the road sector, they operate and maintain 44 roads and highways, including civil structures such as bridges, viaducts and tunnels. Through 28 operating companies, they employ more than 9,300 people in more than 20 countries.

M25, one of their flagship projects! Together with their partners, they have combined to manage the 30 year, £6.2bn Design, Build, Finance, Operate (DBFO) contract for the M25 motorway and associated arterial routes surrounding London. They are accountable for the delivery of operations and maintenance, renewals and other network improvements.

The Infrastructure Asset Manager will sit within the asset investment team reporting to the Asset Investment Manager. This role will work closely with the rest of the partnered team and other key project stakeholders, to oversee all asset management activities for highways structures assets (i.e., (specified and strategic structures, Dartford Crossing and tunnels)

From a client-side perspective, this role will own asset management strategies for structure assets in line with handback and performance requirements, provide strategic guidance and support to the business enabling effective and consistent roll out & execution of asset management strategies, and continuously driving the asset management excellence to mature asset management approach.

The role is a unique opportunity to work within the Project Company of a major infrastructure project and directly interface with other senior stakeholders, parent company and a range of supply chain across the whole life cycle of highways linear assets.

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Ownership of Asset Management Strategies for highways structure assets covering the whole lifecycle (inspection, maintenance, and renewal)
• Act as a sponsor in gateway meetings for lifecycle renewal projects for highways structure assets to ensure that projects deliver expected benefits within expected budget.
• Work closely with the Engineering Manager and the Commercial & Asset Delivery team to optimise and sign off scope and delivery methodologies and unblock technical issues.
• Support the Engineering Manager with all technical approvals and alternative proposals (managing departure from standards).
• Drive the innovation, efficiency and carbon reduction throughout the gateway process; Communicate and share best practice in the field of asset management
• Develop Innovation business cases based on understanding of long term asset risks and opportunities.
• Support and influence the development of the Asset Management Forward Plan, ensuring that proposed investment delivers benefits (risk mitigation, condition benefit, etc.) and meet strategic objectives and performance indicators
• Support the development of the Annual Asset Management Report to capture the benefits achieved, lesson learnt from the delivery and expenditure movement against the budget
• Understand Asset Management IT systems, in particularly, Asset Investment Planning Toolkits; ability to review and challenge the input, configuration, modelling of Decision Support Tools
• Support the annual review and update of key elements of the integrated asset management system, including processes, strategies, procedures, and key documents such as the asset strategies, condition methodologies and support ISO 55001 certification
• Collaborate with relevant teams to understand impacts of strategic changes, changes in standards and third-party schemes on contract and asset performance
• Understand and act as a source of knowledge for contractual and system requirements around asset management obligations.

Profile

• Chartered Engineer with solid technical understanding of infrastructure assets, preferably structures in highways or rail sectors
• Proven experience in sponsoring or managing complex infrastructure asset renewal projects
• Demonstrated capability in making informed technical decisions, driving projects forward effectively, while balancing stakeholder requirements
• Dynamic and proactive professional, adept at autonomous operation within a senior team.

If you would be interested in a confidential chat regarding the role, please do not hesitate to apply with an up to date CV. Alternatively you can drop me an email at [email protected]. I look forward to hearing from you!

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