Head of Asset Management - Lifecycle Delivery

Head of Asset Management - Lifecycle Delivery

• 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.