Director of Asset Management

About the role

We are looking for a senior leader to drive enterprise‑wide asset performance across our European heavy‑industrial processing operations. The role will shape the strategic direction, governance and continuous improvement of asset management to support safe, reliable and cost‑effective production.

Key responsibilities

• Develop, implement and maintain the Group Strategic Asset Management Plan aligned with corporate strategy and site budgets.
• Improve reliability, availability, maintainability and overall equipment effectiveness through disciplined reliability engineering and predictive maintenance.
• Define enterprise‑wide asset management policies, standards, lifecycle processes and decision‑making frameworks.
• Lead the transition from reactive to proactive and predictive maintenance models.
• Establish asset criticality, risk assessment and mitigation for safety‑critical and production‑critical assets.
• Provide functional leadership in a matrix environment, coach site leaders and build asset‑management capability.
• Design and deploy an asset management system consistent with ISO 55000 principles.
• Support capital allocation decisions using lifecycle costing, risk‑based prioritisation and value‑based business cases.

Required profile

• Significant senior leadership experience in asset management, maintenance, reliability or operations excellence within a capital‑intensive industry.
• Background in metals processing, heavy manufacturing, chemicals, energy or utilities is strongly preferred.
• Degree in engineering, asset management, operations or a related discipline; postgraduate or professional qualifications are a plus.

Required skills

• ISO 55000 standards
• Asset management system implementation
• Reliability engineering
• Predictive maintenance techniques
• Lifecycle costing and risk‑based prioritisation