Asset Management Consultant / Asset Planner

As an Asset Investment Planner, you will manage a diverse portfolio of assets, including maintenance, refurbishment, and renewal. Your responsibilities will include:

• Reviewing gaps in asset performance against defined policies and strategies.
• Defining necessary interventions for both above and below ground reservoir estates.
• Using a risk-based approach to prioritize investment and develop costed programs of work to achieve specific and measurable outcomes.
You will gain an understanding of asset policies for water storage assets and actively contribute to defining compliance activities in line with these policies. The ideal candidate should be aware of water company performance commitments, including drinking water quality and statutory reservoir requirements.,
• Be responsible for the Asset Investment Plans in your portfolio, responding to changing business conditions and needs.
• Develop appropriately costed programs of work with key stakeholders and create project briefs for delivery by others.
• Work with other Asset Management teams to assess gaps between published policies and current asset performance, raising these as investment needs.
• Collaborate with Operations and other functional areas to define critical operational interventions and maintenance requirements.
• Trade off different risks and priorities at the overall plan level, ensuring alignment with wider objectives and achieving buy-in from cross-business functions.
• Sponsor projects with the support of senior asset planners and the Asset Planning Manager, ensuring deliverables are robust, fit for purpose, and meet operational needs.
• Incorporate lessons learned into the Asset Planning process by reviewing the plan's success in achieving its aims.
• Attend site and virtual meetings with other AtkinsRealis or client staff.
  
  We are thrilled to offer an exciting opportunity to join our Infrastructure Asset & Information Management practice. We are looking for passionate individuals at a junior grade level, to fill the role of Asset Investment Planner. Experience in managing infrastructure assets is essential. Initially, these roles will focus on Water and Wastewater infrastructure clients. As these roles require onsite time at the client's location, we are seeking UK-based candidates only., Previous asset investment planning and management experience and/or knowledge/experience in water-related civil engineering schemes.
• Basic knowledge of regulatory and legislation applicable to water industry assets.
• Strong communication and persuasion skills, with confidence in presenting to key stakeholders up to senior management level.
• Ability to travel and be seconded to a client within the UK, typically at the client offices 2 to 3 days a week.
• Strong IT skills, including GIS systems.
• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently.
• Full clean driving licence.
• Desirable: Previous use of asset investment planning tools, such as Copperleaf.
  
  Why work for AtkinsRéalis?
We're ranked as one of LinkedIn's Top 25 Companies, where UK professionals want to work and stay once, they join. We've also made the Times Top 50 employers for women. Our Infrastructure team uses innovation, new approaches and the power of data to help our clients deliver end-to-end projects and programmes for essential future infrastructure. And as the work becomes ever more complex, our employees continue to challenge the status quo. We're committed to engineering better for people and our planet, from our global Engineering Net-Zero programme to creating social value through EDAROTH community housing. We're proud of our active employee networks creating awareness and allyship for our under-represented groups. Not to mention programmes supporting communities outside AtkinsRéalis, including schools, charities, ex-forces and professionals returning after career breaks., At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.