Asset Management Advisor - Asset Health in Manchester

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

The Water Utilities Division is Mott MacDonald’s centre of excellence for responding to the UK and Ireland's water and wastewater challenges. The work we do is at the forefront of ensuring safe water supplies for future generations, preventing urban flooding, and improving the health of our rivers and coastal environments. Our multi-disciplinary teams provide a variety of services throughout the full project life cycle, from advisory services and feasibility studies to outline and detailed design.

Are you motivated to support the water sector become more efficient and effective in delivering service while protecting the environment? Are you passionate about asset management and delivering value across the asset lifecycle and addressing the challenges of asset health and operational resilience in the face of climate change? Do you enjoy working within multidisciplinary teams and learning on the job? Are you seeking the opportunity to deliver projects that make a difference? Then we want to hear from you!

The Asset Management And Infrastructure Planning Team is one of five sub-sectors within our Water Utilities Division, which employs around 350 people across the UK. We work in the water sector and with other infrastructure providers both in the UK and internationally in the following workstream areas:

• Technical assurance of statutory regulatory submissions such as annual performance reporting, business cases and business plans, long-term strategic plans, operational performance and deliverables
• Water resource investment planning
• Wastewater and bioreources investment planning
• Strategic asset management and business planning
• Carbon and net zero appraisal and strategic planning
• Integrated systems management
• Data analytics and decision support tools
• Contract’s appraisal (NEC, PPP)

Due to the success of our framework bidding we are looking to grow our investment planning team. As an Asset Management Advisor with a focus on Asset Health you will be supporting our clients (usually UK water companies and regulators) to improve asset datasets and analytical capabilities, make informed investment decisions and build robust, well-evidenced business cases.

Responsibilities include:

• Data analysis, interpretation, and application of robust data infill techniques
• Implementing Asset Health metrics and frameworks for effective monitoring of water and wastewater assets
• Developing asset class strategies that effectively balance short and long-term intervention needs
• Application and benchmarking of asset management good practice frameworks including ISO55001 and AMMA
• Contributing to development and authoring of robust investment business cases and other regulatory submissions
• Collaboration with our wider asset management community delivering Asset Health related inputs in areas including digital solutions, strategic planning and systems mapping

Candidate Specification

Essential:

• Degree qualified in an engineering, environmental or other subject relevant to water asset management
• Chartership achieved through a relevant organisation (ICE, CIWEM or similar), or working at an equivalent level with demonstrable progress towards Chartership
• Excellent numerical and analytical skills. (Knowledge and experience of analytics software desirable)
• Strong knowledge of good practice Asset Management principles
• A good working-knowledge of the UK water regulatory and operational context
• Excellent communication skills; particularly of technical analysis to non-technical audiences
• Excellent collaboration and team working skills
• Experience of monitoring approaches for different asset types and the use of data analytics in asset condition and performance reporting
• Experience of contributing to regulatory planning cycles, investment strategies and investment business cases
• Broad knowledge of and experience with a range of technical disciplines, such as water resource management, drainage and wastewater management, risk and value frameworks or data management and visualisation
• Experience in development and application of Asset Health and resilience assessment

Desirable:

• Asset Management Qualifications (e.g. IAM Certificate)
• Knowledge of investment optimisation tools, criticality or systems modelling
• Project management, client liaison and stakeholder engagement skills
• Experience of auditing and assurance
• Commercial awareness and project proposal preparation experience

Agile working

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

We Offer Some Fantastic Benefits Including:

• Financial wellbeing: We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%. Life assurance equal up to 4× your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6× your salary. Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Employee Ownership: Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success.
• Health and wellbeing: Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues. Health cash plan to support you with everyday health costs and treatments.
• Lifestyle: A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Enhanced family and carers leave: Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Learning and development: Primary annual professional institution subscription. A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

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