Principal Technical Consultant – Asset Integrity & Asset Management in Guildford

KBR is a global provider of differentiated, professional services and technologies delivered across a wide government, defense and industrial base. Drawing from its rich 100-year history and culture of innovation and mission focus, KBR creates sustainable value by combining engineering, technical and scientific expertise with its full life cycle capabilities to help our clients meet their most pressing challenges today and into the future.

KBR Consulting is seeking a Principal Consultant with asset integrity, life extension, and asset management consulting experience to join our international consulting organisation. The successful candidate will be a senior technical leader, providing high-value advisory and practical engineering input across the full asset lifecycle, helping clients manage asset integrity and risk, improve reliability, and optimise performance.

KBR’s asset management services are built on decades of engineering knowledge across upstream, midstream, downstream, and petrochemical processes and equipment, with a proven track record as a business partner for operating companies and a practical owner-user perspective for right-sized solutions. This role will draw on KBR’s depth of resources, methodologies and tools across the wider business when needed.

Reporting to the KBR Consulting International leadership team, the Principal Consultant will deliver technically robust, commercially informed consulting assignments. Assignments typically include life extension evaluations, integrity and inspection programme assessments, maintenance planning, Reliability Availability & Maintainability (RAM) studies, risk, Health, Safety, Security & Environment (HSSE) / Process Safety Management (PSM) support, turnaround optimisation, and brownfield performance improvement, as well as technical due diligence and lender’s technical advisor engagements.

As a more experienced team member, the Principal Consultant performs their own work in terms of collecting information, developing deliverables, analysing trends and key findings, and preparing reports and presentations. Recognising their project management responsibilities, the Principal Consultant should have excellent organisational skills, be good at communicating and guiding others and adept at managing competing drivers often managing multiple assignments concurrently.

Additionally, the Principal Consultant will support the group’s overall sales effort through proposal/tender preparation, contract negotiation, and other client interfacing activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a technical authority on asset integrity management and structural/mechanical life extension, including facilities, infrastructure and equipment in operating/brownfield environments.
• Lead or provide senior technical oversight for structured asset life extension evaluations, including HSE and business risk-based approaches.
• Debottlenecking studies including identification of existing constraints in a logical, sequenced manner against client production objectives.
• Mechanical integrity and inspection program assessments / gap closure, including management systems, procedures, execution, documentation and training.
• Integrity Operating Window (IOW) / Damage mechanism reviews / Corrosion Control Document (CCD) program development or validation and equipment reliability reviews.
• Risk Based Inspection (RBI) program implementations.
• Fitness-for-Service (FFS) evaluations (Per API 579) and assessment of pressure equipment damage.
• Perform fire damage assessments to evaluate inspection and repair requirements.
• Develop and review high-quality technical deliverables including reports, presentations, models and decision support materials.

Client Engagement & Advisory

• Act as a trusted technical advisor to clients, communicating effectively at both technical and executive levels.
• Support client discussions and delivery across the four core asset management pillars: Asset Integrity Management, Risk Management, Reliability Programs, and Process Optimisation.

Reliability, Risk & Operational Readiness

• Provide senior consulting input to improve reliability and reduce business risk.
• Troubleshooting equipment performance leveraging discipline Subject Matter Experts and applying Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) methodology.
• Static & rotating machinery design & life cycle management.

Process Optimisation & Turnaround / Outage Support

• Lead or contribute to performance improvement and brownfield optimisation.
• Turnaround & planned outage support, including TAR strategy / interval definition.
• Process engineering optimisation, such as process modelling/optimisation.

Business Development & Market Support

• Support KBR Consulting’s growth strategy through proposal preparation, technical inputs to bids and presentations.
• Identifying and shaping opportunities across upstream, refining / petrochem, midstream, power and other operator led portfolios.

Team & Knowledge Leadership

• Mentor and guide less-experienced engineers and consultants.
• Develop internal methodologies, tools and best practices across integrity, risk, reliability and optimisation.

Experience & Capability

• The candidate should be able to demonstrate depth of experience and knowledge in several of the following services areas: Asset Integrity Management, Risk Management, Reliability Programmes, and Process Optimisation.

Essential skills:

• A relevant number of years’ experience in production operations within an operating company organisation or operations and maintenance consultancy.
• Strong experience working with and supporting development / projects groups in feasibility, concept, and front-end consulting assignments.
• Proven ability to work independently, manage multiple assignments, and deliver high-quality outputs to tight schedules.

Key Competencies

• Able to work within a “sell-do” model; strong self-starter and motivated to succeed.
• Excellent communication skills including concise reports and presentations for all levels.
• Commercial awareness: can identify opportunities, shape scope, plan execution, and deliver value-driven outcomes.

Based in our Leatherhead office. Fluent English, additional languages are a plus.