Asset Management Consultant/ Asset Planner in Manchester

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, and using a risk-based approach to prioritise investment and develop costed programmes of work to achieve specific, 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, ensuring the water company meets performance commitments including drinking water quality and statutory reservoir requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• 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 prioritise investment and develop costed programmes of work to achieve specific, measurable outcomes.
• Be responsible for the Asset Investment Plans in your portfolio, responding to changing business conditions and needs.
• Develop appropriately costed programmes 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 Atkins Réalis or client staff.

Experience and Skills

• Experience in managing infrastructure assets is essential; the role focuses initially on Water and Wastewater infrastructure clients and requires onsite time at the client's location (UK‑based candidates only).
• Previous asset investment planning and management experience and/or knowledge of 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 Atkins Réalis?

We’re ranked as one of LinkedIn’s Top 25 Companies, and UK professionals want to work and stay with us 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. We challenge the status quo, commit to engineering better for people and our planet through our global Engineering Net‑Zero programme, and create social value through EDAROTH community housing. We support communities outside Atkins Réalis, including schools, charities, ex‑forces and professionals returning after career breaks.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

At Atkins Réalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world‑class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnicity or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.