Job Title:
Lead Asset Management Engineer
Duration:
12 months
Location:
Aberdeen or London based, or consider any UK office
This opportunity sits within an asset solutions environment supporting the energy transition, with a focus on maintenance engineering, reliability engineering, asset management, operational readiness and commissioning support. The role offers broad technical scope across new and existing facilities, helping to improve asset lifecycle performance, readiness for start-up, and safe, efficient ongoing operations. This position will suit a technically strong engineer who can combine consultancy delivery with practical reliability, CMMS and operational readiness expertise.
Key Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership:
Lead maintenance, reliability, asset management and operational readiness consultancy activities across energy and industrial sector projects.
Provide technical assurance and peer review for engineering studies and deliverables.
Support multidisciplinary teams with subject matter expertise in maintenance, reliability and asset lifecycle performance.
Develop innovative solutions aligned with good engineering practice, legislation and industry standards.
Facilitate technical workshops, training sessions and review meetings.
Reliability and Asset Management Engineering:
Lead and apply RAM, RCM, FMECA/FMEA, RCA, maintenance optimisation and reliability improvement studies.
Develop risk-based maintenance strategies, maintenance programmes and lifecycle reliability plans for facilities and equipment.
Assess equipment criticality, analyse failure trends and maintenance history, and identify improvement opportunities.
Develop condition monitoring programmes and support risk-based decision-making.
Support complex asset repair and intervention scopes.
Operational Readiness and Assurance:
Develop and implement operational readiness and assurance programmes for capital projects, brownfield modifications and asset transitions.
Establish readiness frameworks, milestones, criteria and stage-gate assurance processes.
Assess readiness across maintenance, operations, inspection, integrity, spares, materials management and support systems.
Identify readiness gaps and define mitigation and corrective action plans.
Develop deliverables such as asset registers, equipment criticality assessments, maintenance strategies, spares catalogues, asset care plans and performance monitoring frameworks.
Commissioning, Start-Up and Handover:
Provide maintenance and reliability engineering support during commissioning, start-up and early-life operations.
Participate in mechanical completion, pre-commissioning, commissioning and readiness reviews.
Review procedures, records, turnover packs and handover documentation from a maintenance and reliability perspective.
Define preservation, spares, maintenance and start-up support requirements.
Support troubleshooting, risk mitigation and operational acceptance activities.
CMMS, Maintenance Planning and Asset Data:
Support CMMS implementation, optimisation and governance, including asset data, equipment hierarchies, maintenance plans, workflows and reporting structures.
Monitor maintenance performance, backlog, deferrals, outstanding actions, parts availability and inspection status.
Prepare maintenance and CMMS reports, dashboards, KPI tracking and improvement plans.
Support spare parts optimisation, inventory strategy development and spares readiness reviews.
Help maintain high-quality maintenance and reliability data to support safe and efficient decision-making.
Late-Life Operations and Decommissioning:
Support decommissioning studies, late-life operations assessments and life extension reviews.
Undertake equipment condition assessments to inform continued operation, repair, replacement, preservation or decommissioning decisions.
Rationalise maintenance requirements for ageing, reduced-duty, mothballed or late-life assets while maintaining safe and compliant operation.
Identify opportunities for Opex reduction through maintenance optimisation, inspection rationalisation, spares strategy review and operational simplification.
Stakeholder Engagement and Team Support:
Support technical proposals, methodologies, presentations, workshops and client-facing technical briefings.
Engage with stakeholders to align delivery objectives and technical requirements.
Mentor junior engineers and consultants through coaching, supervision and technical guidance.
Support team capability development and contribute to agile delivery across multiple concurrent scopes.
Essential Qualifications:
Degree or equivalent qualification and relevant experience in a core engineering discipline such as Mechanical, Rotating Equipment, Instruments and Controls, Electrical, Reliability and Maintenance, or Piping/Piping Stress.
Essential Experience:
Strong understanding of equipment reliability, maintenance management, asset integrity, HSE requirements, safe systems of work and asset lifecycle principles.
Proven capability in reliability and maintenance methodologies including RAM, RCM, FMECA/FMEA, RCA, criticality assessment and maintenance optimisation.
Experience developing maintenance strategies, risk-based maintenance programmes and reliability improvement plans for new or existing facilities.
Experience supporting operational readiness, assurance, commissioning, start-up and handover activities.
Knowledge of CMMS implementation, optimisation, governance, work order management, maintenance workflows and reporting.
Ability to analyse equipment performance data, maintenance history and failure trends to identify improvement opportunities.
Strong stakeholder engagement, communication, reporting and coordination skills in client-facing and multidisciplinary environments.
Experience leading within discipline teams and supporting delivery across multiple concurrent scopes.
Familiarity with ISO 55000 principles.
Desired Skills:
Experience in oil and gas, chemicals, power generation, hydrogen, CCUS, offshore wind, solar, decommissioning or other industrial sectors.
Experience supporting EPC, EPCM or owner-operator project delivery models.
Experience in decommissioning, late-life asset management, digital asset management, predictive maintenance or performance monitoring systems.
Experience working within consultancy environments and leading small or medium-sized teams.
Good presentation and training skills.
Chartered Engineer status or progress towards professional registration (Preferred).
Familiarity with Agile working techniques such as Scrum or Kanban.
About Airswift:
Airswift is an international workforce solutions provider within the energy, process and infrastructure industries. Airswift serves as a strategic partner to clients, offering a turnkey workforce solution to capture and deliver the top talent needed to complete successful projects by aligning with unique project needs. With over 1000 employees and 9,000 contractors operating in over 60 countries, Airswift's geographical reach and pool of talent available is unmatched in the industry.
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