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.