Asset Management Consultant

Tetra Tech, Inc.; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global consultancy firm is seeking an Asset Management Consultant to join its rail asset management team. You will deliver projects, support strategy implementation, and provide advisory services, ensuring the successful management of asset-rich organizations. The role requires a Bachelor's degree and extensive experience in consultancy and project management. Ideal candidates should possess strong communication skills and the ability to navigate complex operational challenges.

Qualifications

• Experience of working for a transportation client or another asset-rich organization.
• Delivery of asset, infrastructure or technology projects.
• Ability to support strategic, tactical, and operational challenges.

Responsibilities

• Deliver projects successfully on time while exceeding client expectations.
• Support the delivery of the UK mobility asset management strategy.
• Lead consultancy work across areas like the application of asset management standards.

Skills

Experience in consultancy

Project management experience

Strong communication skills

Numeracy skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline

Job description

Arcadis is committed to becoming the leading asset management organisation, helping clients maximize the performance and value of their physical and natural assets across the entire lifecycle - from planning and creation through to maintenance, operation, and disposal. By combining digital innovation, engineering expertise, data analytics and consultancy, we deliver sustainable and predictive solutions that enable asset intensive organisations to make better decisions in an ever‑changing environment. We are seeking an Asset Management Consultant to join our UK rail asset management team. In this role, you will contribute to delivering our rail asset management strategy, lead consultancy projects, and develop value propositions within the rail sector. You will also support our wider global advisory business across mobility, resilience, and places.

Role Accountabilities

• Deliver projects successfully; you will apply your skills, knowledge and insight to enable the delivery of asset management projects on time, meeting both quality and budgetary targets, whilst striving to exceed client expectations.
• Support strategy implementation; contribute to the delivery and implementation of our UK mobility asset management strategy and help build our global capability, applying recognised international standards such as ISO55000.
• Provide advisory services; lead and support consultancy work across areas including development of our global capability, in particular in relation to the application of international asset management standards (e.g. ISO55000 suite) and risk / performance‑based maintenance advisory.
• Developing asset management strategies, change programmes, and business cases.
• Designing and implementing ISO55001 aligned management systems.
• Optimising investment decisions and long‑term business planning for asset portfolios.
• Creating tools and approaches for value‑driven decisions on asset renewals, maintenance and improvements.
• Preparing asset strategies, management plans, and maintenance optimisation programmes.
• Driving operational efficiency improvements.
• Enhancing asset information strategies and improving data maturity.
• Build strong relationships; manage client and stakeholder engagement to deliver positive outcomes, ensuring trust and collaboration.
• Promote growth and leadership; represent Arcadis in the rail asset management market, contribute to thought leadership, support cross‑business tenders, and actively showcase our capabilities to create new opportunities.

Essential Qualifications

• Experience of working for a transportation client or other asset‑rich organisation, or in a consultancy environment within this space.
• Your experience may have supported the resolution of strategic, tactical and/or operational challenges. Examples may include one or more of the following:
• Asset management strategies, change programmes and/or planning.
• Asset investment planning.
• Risk and value assessments.
• Operations and maintenance.
• Development and deployment of decision‑support tools, asset information strategies and/or asset data quality assessments.
• Delivery of asset, infrastructure or technology projects, delivery or management experience in the transport sector.
• Project management experience.
• A good communicator with a high level of numeracy skills.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline.

Desirable Qualifications

• You will have some experience of:
• Process development.
• Transportation or other critical infrastructure and/or operations.
• Benefits management.
• Data analysis.
• Tender delivery, bid experience or evaluation of bids from either a client business development or bid team perspective.
• An understanding of risk management (e.g. FMECA, Bow Tie, Fishbone), ISO55000, asset management and/or Six Sigma processes and tools.
• Expertise in one or more phases of the asset lifecycle (strategy and planning, design and build, operations and maintenance, or decommissioning).
• Some leadership experience, including managing professional team members or comparable responsibilities.
• A recognised external accreditation/qualification to Business Advisory or Asset Management capability expertise (e.g. MCA or IAM) or interest in working towards it.

Diversity & Inclusion

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging. We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life…