Asset Engineer

Job Title : Asset Engineer

Location : Hybrid working - Worthing (Durrington)/Falmer (Brighton) office

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full-time, Monday to Friday (37 hrs)

Salary: Up to 55,000 (depending on skills and experience)

Key Purpose

The Technical Engineer is responsible for the development of high-level Asset Planning solutions that ensure risk is managed for least cost. Reporting into the Programme Planning Manager, they will support the development and briefing of a prioritised programme of work to meet business objectives. This will involve undertaking of initial investigations, modelling and studies to develop high level options and completing cost-benefit analysis to identify the most cost-effective option. The Asset Engineer will identify and scope solutions and expected benefit, considering delivery and operational costs, asset maintenance and operation requirements, engineering and alternative solution options in option development.

Accountabilities

• Conduct or review root cause analysis to ensure effective solutions are developed to asset risk and performance issues.
• Identify remedial action associated with asset performance or condition to ensure optimum performance, prompt resolution of issues, minimal disruption to plant functioning and legal and regulatory compliance.
• Conduct cost benefit analysis on intervention options to determine the best value solution. Scope the solutions, expected benefits and the method and timescale for realisation, including value appraisals (cost benefit analysis)
• Develop interventions and solutions to address identified prioritised risks through appropriate optioneering, to identify the most cost beneficial interventions at project and programme level. Where an approved intervention requires operational activity, work closely with the operational and maintenance teams to support the schedule of the intervention and measurement of benefits.
• Recommend evidence-based interventions taking account of risk, performance, criticality and cost to develop affordable solutions to priority problems and to deliver our AMP investment plans.
• Assess the integration of solutions with the medium-term plan and provide advice to the Programme Planning Manager for prioritisation.
• Undertake feedback on solution effectiveness and benefits realisation and utilise this to inform asset strategy and planning decisions.
• To identify the need for and coordinate more specialist support where appropriate, such as network modelling.
• Liaise closely with the strategy, planning and strategic programme teams to ensure proposals are effective, delivered and ultimately used in the correct way to ensure benefits are realised.
• Support the Asset Planning teams in the development of integrated system plans at asset group, catchment and functional level to deliver targeted benefits.
• For approved capital delivery interventions, alongside a credible reference solution complete a handover of all necessary documentation to the relevant teams and provide support during the design process to ensure the identified benefits remain viable.

Skills & Competencies

• Excellent communication and verbal and written reasoning skills
• Strategic and analytical thinker
• A flexible analytic approach that allows for results at varying levels of precision
• Strong relationship building and interpersonal skills, including relationship management

Technical knowledge

• Competent IT skills, including MS Office/SAP/GIS
• Knowledge of asset planning tools, including scenario planning and deterioration modelling
• Knowledge of hydraulic modelling tools, such as InfoWorks

Experience

• Substantial post qualification experience in an engineering design environment
• Extensive experience of feasibility, design and construction
• Experience in asset management functions, ideally also within project delivery and operations roles to provide a rounded experience
• Evidence of innovative approaches to problem solving
• Commercial acumen and project costing experience
• Understanding and appreciation of risk within a highly regulated environment and its implications
• Ideally, experience of operating within a heavily regulated industry, balancing the needs of different stakeholders (i.e. regulators, customers, shareholders) and the delivery of business performance

Qualifications:

Essential

• Degree, ideally in an engineering or science discipline or equivalent level of experience
• A full driving licence is required

Desirable

• Professional qualification (e.g. chartered engineer status
• Professional accreditation (for example, Member of Institute of Asset Management, Member of Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management), or equivalent levels of experience