Global Asset Manager

As a global leader in facilities services we connect people and places to make the world work better. Whether directly or indirectly, you’ll play a vital role in supporting our Placemakers in delivering exceptional workplace experiences for our customers. Together, we make space for people and businesses to thrive.

 

Location: UK

 

Main purpose of the position:

We are seeking a strategic and results-driven Global Asset Manager to lead the development and implementation of consistent asset management policies across our global portfolio.

This role focuses on enhancing asset reliability, preventing failures, and leveraging data-driven insights to reduce reactive maintenance and associated costs.

The successful candidate will drive asset management deployment, optimize maintenance programs, ensure compliance, and maximize client investment through proactive, reliability-centered strategies.

This position requires expertise in reliability engineering, data analysis, and strategic planning to deliver systematic and automated processes supporting corporate technical services.

 

Key Responsibilities:

• Policy Development and Implementation: Deliver consistent global asset management policies to ensure standardized operations, compliance, and enhanced asset reliability across all accounts considering ISO standards such as ISO55001, 19650, 15686 and other best practice industry standards.  
• Asset Management Deployment: Oversee the build, development, and management of Capital Investment Plans (CIP) to support asset lifecycle management and prioritize reliability improvements.
• Asset Database Management: Maintain and enhance a comprehensive asset database, including statutory certifications, procedures, and additional asset categories such as fabric, catering, and vertical transportation, to support failure prevention and reliability tracking.
• Cost Modeling and Failure Prevention: Develop detailed cost models to provide accurate insights into site-level asset costs, identifying patterns in data to reduce reactive maintenance, minimize downtime, and lower operational costs.
• Data Analysis and Reporting: Leverage advanced data analytics and reliability engineering techniques to deliver:
  • Improved asset performance through predictive and preventive maintenance strategies.
  • Assurance of asset and contractual compliance.
  • Optimized client investment by reducing reactive works and enhancing asset longevity.
• Process Optimization: Implement consistent, systematized, and automated work instruction processes using tools like Fieldflex to streamline operations and support proactive maintenance planning.
• Asset Management Planning: Develop site-specific Asset Management Plans, incorporating enhanced maintenance levels for End-of-Life (EOL) assets and reliability-focused strategies to prevent failures.
• Strategic Development: Build and execute an Asset Management Strategy to deliver optimal, reliability-centered maintenance programs at both site and account levels, emphasizing failure mode identification and mitigation.
• Budget Support: Collaborate on budget development for Technical Services, focusing on corporate reactive asset repair while driving cost savings through reduced reactive works and improved reliability.
• Reliability Engineering Leadership: Apply reliability engineering principles, such as Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and condition-based monitoring, to identify and mitigate failure patterns, enhancing overall asset performance.

 

Qualifications and Skills:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, or Industrial), Reliability Engineering, Facilities Management, or a related field.
• Experience:
  • Minimum of 8-10 years of experience in asset management, reliability engineering, or facilities management, with at least 5 years in a leadership role.<