Director of Asset Management

About the role

We are looking for a senior leader to drive enterprise‑wide asset management strategy across our European heavy‑industrial processing operations. The role combines strategic vision with hands‑on operational leadership to transform how assets are managed throughout their lifecycle.

Key responsibilities

• Develop, implement and maintain the Group Strategic Asset Management Plan, aligning it with corporate strategy and site performance targets.
• Improve asset reliability, availability, maintainability, utilisation 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.
• Transition maintenance to proactive and predictive models and implement consistent asset criticality, risk assessment and mitigation approaches.
• Provide functional leadership in a matrix structure, coach site leaders, develop competency frameworks and promote a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.
• Lead design and deployment of an asset management system based on ISO 55000 principles.
• Define and monitor asset management KPIs, maturity assessments, assurance activities, audit outcomes and improvement plans.
• Support capital allocation decisions using lifecycle costing, risk‑based prioritisation and value‑based business cases.
• Improve asset data quality, master data governance and digital asset management tools.

Required profile

• Significant senior leadership experience in asset management, maintenance, reliability, engineering or capital‑intensive industrial operations.
• Experience in metals processing, heavy manufacturing, chemicals, energy, utilities or a similar asset‑intensive environment.
• Degree in engineering, asset management, operations or a related discipline; postgraduate qualifications or professional certifications are a plus.

Required skills

• ISO 55000 principles
• Predictive maintenance models
• Reliability engineering
• Asset criticality assessment
• Risk assessment and mitigation
• Lifecycle costing
• Digital asset management tools