Job ID:41506
Senior Asset Management Specialist Lloyd's Register Location: Houston, USAAbout the Role:The Senior Asset Management Specialist will support clients across the maritime and offshore sectors to improve asset reliability, maintenance effectiveness, operational availability and lifecycle performance.
The role requires strong practical experience in maintenance and reliability engineering, with the ability to apply and adapt recognised asset management principles to the distinctly different operating, regulatory and operational environments of vessels and offshore assets.
Working directly with clients, the successful candidate will lead and support assignments covering maintenance strategy and optimisation, reliability improvement, condition-based maintenance, CMMS improvement, asset criticality and spare parts strategy. The role combines technical expertise with consultancy and client leadership, translating operational and engineering data into pragmatic improvements in safety, reliability, availability and whole-life cost.
The role may also include managing projects and developing and coaching others to support the delivery of Advisory services.
This role represents an opportunity for an experienced maritime or offshore maintenance and reliability professional to take the next step beyond technical delivery. Alongside leading complex client assignments, the successful candidate will have opportunities to develop broader responsibility for client relationships, technical leadership, mentoring and business development, creating a pathway towards future people management and leadership roles within Lloyd's Register.
What we offer you - The opportunity to work for an organization that has a strong sense of purpose, is values-driven and helps colleagues to develop professionally and personally through our range of people development programs
- A Full time permanent role
The Role - Lead maintenance and reliability improvement assignments across ships, marine assets and offshore facilities, recognising the different operating profiles, maintenance philosophies, regulatory requirements and asset constraints associated with each environment
- Develop and optimise preventive, predictive and condition-based maintenance strategies, applying approaches appropriate to vessel operations, offshore production facilities and other safety- and availability-critical assets
- Undertake and facilitate Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM), FMEA/FMECA, equipment criticality and maintenance optimisation studies, translating the outputs into practical maintenance programmes
- Assess existing maintenance regimes and identify opportunities to eliminate ineffective maintenance, improve task content and frequencies, increase equipment availability and optimise maintenance expenditure
- Review and improve CMMS and maintenance management systems, including asset hierarchies, equipment data, preventive maintenance routines, job plans, work management processes, maintenance history and performance reporting
- Develop and review spare parts and inventory strategies, including equipment criticality, critical spares, stocking philosophy, obsolescence, lead-time and operational consequence considerations
- Analyse maintenance and reliability performance to identify improvement opportunities and translate findings into practical, prioritised and implementable improvement programmes
- To perform technical assessments and provide specialist advice for service delivery within agreed broad parameters that include budget constraints and contractual requirements.
- To produce the deliverable within the agreed parameters in an appropriate format and take responsibility to review other employee's work as requested.
- To discuss / present the deliverable with the internal / external client at a senior level and be able to suggest alternative solutions where appropriate.
- Provide technical support within defined area of expertise to ensure consistency of interpretation and application to service delivery processes.
- Responsible for managing technical knowledge within defined remit to ensure a high standard of service delivery.
- Using developed knowledge and experience to support commercial functions with enquiries and technical requirements.
- To pursue Continuous Professional Development and maintain a high degree of discipline knowledge and awareness.
- To mentor / coach other technical employees to achieve effective technical knowledge transfer and application.
- To undertake project management where applicable including monitoring project progress and spend against budget and contract requirements.
- Undertake administration as required in line with current processes and procedures.
What you bring- A degree or equivalent from a tertiary organisation recognised by Lloyd's Register within the relevant field of engineering or physical science (minimum of three years programme).
- Membership of an appropriate professional institution.
- Working towards achieving Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status.
- Shall possess sufficient relevant previous working experience as a technical leader to demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the relevant specialist requirements, knowledge and application.
- In depth working experience in Asset Management for the Maritime and /or Energies space.
- Knowledge and practical application of RCM, FMEA/FMECA, asset and equipment criticality, maintenance optimisation and reliability improvement methodologies
- Experience with condition-based maintenance and condition monitoring, and an understanding of how equipment condition and reliability data can be used to optimise maintenance intervention
- Experience of spare parts, critical spares and inventory optimisation, with an understanding of the relationship between equipment criticality, reliability, lead time, availability and operational consequence.
- Ability to analyse maintenance, reliability and asset performance information and translate findings into pragmatic recommendations that can be implemented within operational organisations.
- Customer focussed, proactive and highly motivated to support clients, by meeting their deadlines and regularly updating them on progress
- Strong team-working and interpersonal skills
- Good communication / influencing skills
- Proficiency in the English Language commensurate with the work, with the ability to produce comprehensive and detailed written reports.
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