# Associate Consultant / Associate Director / Technical Director – Rail Asset Management & Maintenance

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Dublin
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are looking for an experienced rail asset management and maintenance professional to support the growth of our Asset Management & Maintenance team in Ireland.

As a senior member of the team, you will work closely with clients, partners, and senior stakeholders in Ireland to understand their priorities, build trusted relationships, and provide clear, practical advice.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Provide technical leadership across rail asset management, maintenance, and advisory projects in Ireland.

- Advise director-level clients and senior stakeholders on strategic, technical, and operational asset management challenges.

- Lead multidisciplinary teams and coordinate input from engineering, operations, maintenance, commercial, digital, and project delivery specialists.

- Oversee the delivery of complex consultancy assignments, ensuring quality, value, safety, and technical integrity.

- Develop asset management strategies, maintenance and renewal plans, whole-life cost approaches, and performance improvement recommendations.

- Use knowledge of standards, good practice, and rail operations to support confident, evidence-based decision making.

- Identify and develop business opportunities in Ireland, lead or support bids and proposals, and strengthen client relationships.

- Coach, mentor, and develop colleagues, helping to build and sustain local asset management and maintenance capability.

**Essential Skills, Knowledge, Experience & Qualifications:**

- Significant experience in rail, transport, asset management, maintenance, engineering, operations, or consultancy.

- Chartered Engineer status, or equivalent senior professional registration and demonstrable technical authority.

- Broad technical understanding across a range of rail disciplines, such as infrastructure, signalling, rolling stock, stations, traction power, depots, systems engineering, or digital asset management.

- Strong knowledge of asset management principles, lifecycle planning, maintenance optimisation, renewals, risk management, and performance improvement.

- Experience leading teams, managing people, and developing capability in a consultancy, client, or delivery environment.

- Experience working with, influencing, and advising director-level clients or senior decision makers.

- Ability to lead complex assignments, manage competing priorities, and communicate clear recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences.

- Commercial awareness, including experience supporting business development, bids, proposals, or client account growth.

**Desirable Skills, Knowledge, Experience & Qualifications:**

- Experience in one or more of the following rail disciplines; light rail, signalling, communications.

- Experience leading rail asset management or maintenance transformation programmes.

- Knowledge of ISO 55000, ISO 55001, ISO 55002, IAM guidance, or other relevant asset management standards and frameworks.

- Experience developing value propositions, service offerings, or market strategies in rail advisory or asset management.

- Experience working across client organisations, delivery partners, operators, maintainers, manufacturers, or infrastructure managers, ideally within the Irish rail or wider transport market.

- Interest or experience in sustainability, resilience, digital transformation, data analytics, or future-ready rail operations.

## Skills

### Required
- rail asset management
- maintenance
- engineering
- operations
- consultancy
- Chartered Engineer
- asset management strategy
- maintenance planning
- renewal planning
- performance improvement

### Nice to have
- light rail
- signalling
- communications
- ISO 55000
- IAM guidance
- sustainability
- resilience
- digital transformation
- data analytics

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