Director of Asset Management – Heavy Industrial Processing

About the role

We are looking for a strategic and operational leader to drive a step‑change in how assets are managed across our European heavy‑industrial processing operations. The Director of Asset Management will shape the enterprise‑wide strategy, governance and continuous improvement of asset performance.

Key responsibilities

• Develop, implement and maintain the Strategic Asset Management Plan, aligning it with corporate strategy and site performance targets.
• Improve asset reliability, availability, maintainability, utilization and overall equipment effectiveness through disciplined reliability engineering and maintenance strategies.
• Establish enterprise‑wide asset management policies, standards, lifecycle processes, decision rights and performance expectations.
• Lead the transition from reactive to proactive and predictive maintenance models.
• Implement consistent asset criticality, risk assessment and mitigation for safety‑critical, production‑critical and environmentally significant assets.
• Provide functional leadership to site leaders in a matrix structure and build capability through coaching and competency frameworks.
• Design and deploy an asset management system based on ISO 55000 principles.
• Define and monitor KPIs, maturity assessments, audit outcomes and improvement plans.
• 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, engineering or operations excellence within a capital‑intensive industrial environment.
• Experience in metals processing, heavy manufacturing, chemicals, energy or utilities is strongly preferred.
• Degree in engineering, asset management, operations or a related discipline; postgraduate qualifications or professional certification in asset management are a plus.

Required skills

What we offer

• Opportunity to shape asset strategy for a leading European industrial group.
• Leadership role with direct influence on safety, reliability and sustainability outcomes.
• Collaborative, matrixed environment with strong executive support.