Technical Director - Asset Health

AtkinsRéalis; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working culture

Training & development

Flexible holiday allowances

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis is recruiting an established Technical Director, Asset Health, to build and lead a strategic service line across Water, Defence, Energy and Aviation in the UK. You will set direction, define a focused services portfolio, and govern delivery to ensure high-quality, evidence-based decisions for clients.

The role combines technical authority with commercial leadership as demand grows and the practitioner community expands.

Qualifications

• Senior-level experience in infrastructure consultancy or asset-intensive environments.
• Strong Asset Health knowledge linked to condition, reliability, risk and investment.
• Proven ability to create and grow a technical service or capability.
• Track record in shaping and converting business opportunities.
• Ability to lead multidisciplinary assignments and provide technical assurance.
• Excellent communication to translate evidence into recommendations.
• Engineering degree or equivalent; Chartered status advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Define strategy and roadmap for Asset Health service line.
• Lead development of services across Water, Defence, Energy and Aviation.
• Shape opportunities with market, account and practice leaders.
• Provide senior technical assurance on complex assignments.
• Build trusted relationships with senior clients and stakeholders.
• Develop the practitioner community as demand grows.

Skills

Senior leadership

Commercial judgement

Communication

Stakeholder management

Technical direction

Asset Health knowledge

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent

Chartered status advantageous

Job description

Overview

Asset Health is an increasingly important priority for infrastructure owners. Ageing assets, evolving regulatory expectations, affordability pressures and the need for greater operational resilience require organisations to improve how they understand asset condition, criticality, reliability, performance and future risk.

Asset Health is an increasingly important priority for infrastructure owners. Ageing assets, evolving regulatory expectations, affordability pressures and the need for greater operational resilience require organisations to improve how they understand asset condition, criticality, reliability, performance and future risk. AtkinsRéalis is developing an integrated Asset Health capability that brings together engineering expertise, operational understanding, asset management, information management, analytics and digital innovation. The capability will help clients establish a consistent view of current and future asset health, understand the consequences of deterioration and failure, and identify the operational, maintenance and investment interventions needed to manage risk and improve performance.

We are seeking an established technical and commercial leader to build and grow this capability across our Water, Defence, Energy and Aviation markets.

This is an opportunity to set the direction of a strategically important service line, influence our market offering and help clients make better-informed operational, maintenance and investment decisions.

Your role

• As Technical Director, Asset Health, you will establish and lead our Asset Health service line within the Infrastructure Asset & Information Management Practice.
• You will set its strategic and technical direction, develop a focused portfolio of commercially viable services and establish the methods, governance and delivery approaches required to provide consistent, high-quality outcomes for clients.
• Working with our practice, market and account leaders, you will identify client priorities, shape opportunities and convert demand into secured work. You will provide senior leadership on client engagements, major bids and strategically important commissions.
• The role extends beyond individual tools, analytical methods or Asset Health Indices. You will ensure that our approach provides clients with a defensible line of sight from asset evidence and future risk to prioritised interventions and investment decisions. You will connect evidence about asset condition, criticality, reliability and performance with practical operational, maintenance and investment decisions.
• Initially, this will be a service line, technical and commercial leadership role rather than one involving the management of a large, established team. You will develop the capability and supporting team as demand and secured work grow. You will:
• Own and implement the strategy and roadmap for our Asset Health service line across Water, Defence, Energy and Aviation.
• Define a focused portfolio of distinctive and commercially viable services that responds to clients' operational, maintenance and investment priorities.
• Set the technical direction for our Asset Health capability and lead the development and continuous improvement of its methods, governance and assurance arrangements, including approaches to condition, criticality, deterioration, performance and future risk.
• Work with market, account and practice leaders to identify, shape and convert strategic client opportunities.
• Bring technical authority and commercial judgement to senior client conversations, major bids and strategically important commissions.
• Lead complex multidisciplinary assignments as Technical Director, Project Director, senior adviser or assurance lead.
• Build trusted relationships with senior clients, asset owners, operators and industry stakeholders.
• Establish an active Asset Health community and develop the people, partnerships and reusable methods needed to support sustainable growth.

About You

• Extensive senior-level experience gained within infrastructure consultancy, an asset-intensive organisation or a closely related environment.
• A strong understanding of Asset Health and its relationship with condition, criticality, reliability, maintenance, operational performance, risk and investment planning.
• Experience of establishing, leading or materially growing a technical service, proposition or capability, with evidence of resulting client demand, secured work or improved market position.
• A successful record of identifying, shaping and converting business development opportunities, including major bids or strategic proposals.
• Experience of directing complex multidisciplinary assignments and providing senior technical assurance.
• Strong commercial judgement, balancing client outcomes, technical quality, delivery risk and financial performance across both work winning and delivery.
• The credibility to build trusted relationships with senior clients, stakeholders and business leaders.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to turn complex technical evidence into clear decisions and practical recommendations.
• A degree in engineering, asset management or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience, is required. Chartered status or an equivalent recognised professional qualification would be advantageous.

Desirable Experience

• Water, Defence, Energy or Aviation.
• Asset Health Indices, condition assessment or criticality assessment.
• Reliability engineering, deterioration modelling or maintenance optimisation.
• Asset Performance Management or risk-based investment planning.
• Regulated, safety-critical or security-sensitive infrastructure.
• We recognise that strong candidates may bring different combinations of these capabilities. We do not expect one person to be a specialist in every area.

Your initial priorities

• Your initial focus will be to bring together the Asset Health expertise, tools, methods and client credentials that already exist across AtkinsRéalis and develop them into a coherent, technically robust and client-facing capability. You will identify where existing approaches can be standardised, improved or supplemented and establish a clear technical development roadmap.
• You will define the priority propositions, establish the technical and delivery framework, shape an initial opportunity pipeline and lead or assure early reference commissions. As demand grows, you will develop the practitioner community, partnerships and supporting team required to create a scalable and sustainable service.
• Success will be demonstrated through a recognised market proposition, a sustainable pipeline of secured work, successful client outcomes and growing demand for our services.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.

About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's'infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

Additional information

Security clearance

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.

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