Principal Asset Management Consultant

Jacobs; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Pension contributions up to 10%

Life assurance 4x salary

Income protection

CPD & professional development

Family planning support

Parental leave benefits

Employee networks & volunteering

Job summary

Jacobs is seeking an experienced Asset Management consultant to shape performance for critical infrastructure. You will combine asset strategy, governance, and lifecycle planning with verification, condition assessment and data improvement initiatives to deliver measurable outcomes across asset-intensive industries.

You will lead complex projects, engage senior stakeholders, and design survey methods while aligning with ISO 55001 and risk-based maintenance practices.

Qualifications

• Consultancy, engineering or operational experience within asset-intensive environments.
• Demonstrable knowledge of RAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability & Safety) principles and their practical application.
• Experience with ISO 55001 asset management principles, criticality assessments, FMEA/FMECA, condition-based maintenance and infrastructure asset performance optimisation.

Responsibilities

• Manage asset management solutions across strategy, governance, planning, risk, performance, analytics, lifecycle management and investment.
• Ensure alignment with ISO 55000, whilst also identifying practical improvement initiatives.
• Lead requirements management activities across complex asset projects.
• Design and lead asset verification, inventory, condition assessment and asset data improvement programmes.
• Translate analysis into strategic and practical solutions, implementing roadmaps, robust business cases, enabling informed decisions.
• Facilitate senior stakeholder interviews, workshops and reviews, ensuring alignment.
• Define project scope, condition grading and quality metrics.
• Develop survey methodologies, digital capture requirements and mobilisation plans.
• Assure the quality, consistency and traceability of survey outputs, asset registers, process flow information and asset assemblies.
• Ensure that improved asset data is integrated into relevant systems, governance and business processes.
• Develop through-life asset management solutions, including criticality, failure risk, maintenance strategy, lifecycle planning and investment strategies.

Skills

RAMS principles

ISO 55001

FMEA/FMECA

Condition assessment

Stakeholder engagement

Problem solving

Analytical thinking

Lifecycle planning

Tools

RBD

FTA/ETA

Reliability modelling

Job description

At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

Your impact

Want to play a key role in shaping the future performance of critical infrastructure?

In this newly created role, you will combine your strategic asset management, asset performance and reliability expertise with asset verification, condition assessment and asset information assurance solutions to solve complex client challenges. By turning asset data and field intelligence into actionable insight, you'll help organisations make informed decisions across, strategy, risk, investment, governance, maintenance and operational performance, delivering measurable business outcomes across critical infrastructure and asset-intensive industries.

Your remit will include

• Manage asset management solutions across strategy, governance, planning, risk, performance, analytics, lifecycle management and investment.
• Ensure alignment with ISO 55000, whilst also identifying practical improvement initiatives.
• Lead requirements management activities across complex asset projects.
• Design and lead asset verification, inventory, condition assessment and asset data improvement programmes.
• Translate analysis into strategic and practical solutions, implementing roadmaps, robust business cases, enabling informed decisions.
• Facilitate senior stakeholder interviews, workshops and reviews, ensuring alignment.
• Define project scope, condition grading and quality metrics.
• Develop survey methodologies, digital capture requirements and mobilisation plans.
• Assure the quality, consistency and traceability of survey outputs, asset registers, process flow information and asset assemblies.
• Ensure that improved asset data is integrated into relevant systems, governance and business processes.
• Develop through-life asset management solutions, including criticality, failure risk, maintenance strategy, lifecycle planning and investment strategies.

Ready to make complex systems safer, more reliable and easier to maintain — at a scale that matters?

Here's what you'll need

• Consultancy, engineering or operational experience within asset-intensive environments.
• Demonstrable knowledge of RAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability & Safety) principles and their practical application.
• Experience with ISO 55001 asset management principles, criticality assessments, FMEA/FMECA, condition-based maintenance and infrastructure asset performance optimisation.
• Experience helping organisations improve reliability, maintenance effectiveness and asset performance.
• Sound analytical and problem-solving capability, with the ability to turn insight into business value.
• A collaborative and partnership based approach to stakeholder engagement.
• Ability to thrive in varied, ambiguous environments—curious, delivery‑focused and proactive in learning and knowledge sharing.
• Chartered (or working towards)
• Technical/System Safety HAZID, qualitative/quantitative risk assessment, SIL understanding, risk evaluation for safety‑related/critical systems.
• Reliability & Availability Functional analysis, FMEA/FMECA, RBD, FTA/ETA, reliability/availability modelling (e.g., Reliability Workbench or similar)

What We Offer

• Competitive salary We offer compensation that reflects your skills and experience.
• Robust Pension Contributions We offer enhanced pension contributions up to 10% to secure your future
• Life assurance at 4x your salary.
• Income Protection Financial security in case of long-term illness or injury
• Professional Development We cover professional membership fees and provide continuous professional development (CPD) opportunities
• Family Planning Support Access to fertility healthcare and family planning services
• Enhanced Parental Leave Enjoy enhanced parental leave pay and free membership to employee assistance and parental programs
• Jacobs are committed to hiring a diverse workforce and have a host of Employee Networks to support colleagues of different backgrounds
• Community Engagement Participate in charity matched-funding, paid volunteering time, and charitable donations

Joining Jacobs not only connects you locally but globally. Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and belonging. We put people at the heart of our business, and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees.

With safety and flexibility always top of mind, we’ve gone beyond traditional ways of working so you have the support, means and space to maximize your potential. You’ll uncover flexible working arrangements, benefits, and opportunities, from well-being benefits to our global giving and volunteering program, to exploring new and inventive ways to help our clients make the world a better place. No matter what drives you, you’ll discover how you can cultivate, nurture, and achieve your goals – all at a single global company. Find out more about life at Jacobs.

We aim to embed inclusion and belonging in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected and creative. We accept people for who they are, and we champion the richness of different perspectives, lived experiences and backgrounds in the workplace, as a source of learning and innovation. We are committed to building vibrant communities within Jacobs, including through our Jacobs Employee Networks, Communities of Practice and our Find Your Community initiatives, allowing every employee to find connection, purpose, and belonging.Find out more about ourJacobs Employee Networks here.

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