Wessex Water
Asset Lifecycle Reliability Engineer
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Group Asset Life Cycle Engineer
About the Role
We are looking for a Group Asset Life Cycle Engineer to support the effective management of in-service assets by ensuring asset life-cycle plans, risks, and maintenance strategies remain aligned to operational needs.
The role sits within the Operate & Maintain part of the Asset Management Framework and focuses on translating asset life-cycle intent into clear, practical plans that support safe, reliable, and cost-effective operations.
You will work closely with operations, maintenance, planning, and reliability colleagues to ensure asset plans remain current, risk-based, and deliverable.
Responsibilities
As an Asset Life Cycle Engineer, your main responsibilities will include:
- Maintaining and updating asset life-cycle plans for operational assets
- Supporting the development and upkeep of Asset Operation & Care Plans
- Ensuring asset risks, condition, and performance are reflected in maintenance and operational plans
- Coordinating inputs from operations, maintenance, planning, and reliability teams into a single, comprehensive view of asset needs
- Supporting asset criticality assessments and risk reviews at the Operations & Maintenance (O&M) level
- Reviewing asset performance, condition, and defect data to identify emerging issues
- Supporting the prioritisation of maintenance and capital maintenance activities based on asset need and risk
- Ensuring asset data within the CMMS/EAM system remains accurate and fit for purpose
- Providing operational input into capital maintenance scopes and asset replacement decisions
- Supporting continuous improvement through feedback from execution and operational learning
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Requirements
You will have experience working with operational assets in an asset-intensive environment, with a strong understanding of asset management and maintenance processes.
Essential qualifications and skills include:
- Experience in asset management, maintenance engineering, or operational engineering roles
- A clear understanding of Asset Management, preferably with an IAM certification
- Knowledge of asset life-cycle concepts and risk-based decision-making
- Ability to interpret asset performance, condition, and maintenance data
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to collaborate across functions
- Excellent organisational and coordination skills
- Familiarity with CMMS/EAM systems, including MS Dynamics
- The ability to balance short-term operational pressures with long-term asset needs
A degree in engineering or equivalent technical experience is desirable.
Benefits
As part of your role at YTL UK, you will have access to the following benefits:
- Up to 20% combined pension contribution
- Career progression and professional development opportunities
- 25 days’ holiday (rising to 28 days, based on length of service)
- Option to sell up to five days’ holiday annually
- Ability to buy up to ten days’ holiday each year (subject to conditions)
- Enhanced healthcare package for claiming back healthcare costs
- Life assurance of up to eight times your salary
- Electric car salary sacrifice scheme (subject to conditions)
- Cashback and discounts across 3,000+ retailers
- One paid volunteering day per year
- Enhanced family leave and pay arrangements
- Access to an interactive health and wellbeing platform
- Support from trained mental health first aiders
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About YTL UK
YTL UK is part of the international YTL Group based in Kuala Lumpur. Our UK portfolio includes:
- Wessex Water – A leading water and sewerage company in England and Wales, serving 2.9 million people in the South West.
- YTL Developments – A major UK property developer, transforming a 350-acre former airfield into a sustainable new community with housing, schools, retail, and commercial spaces.
- YTL Construction UK – A top 20 UK contractor, delivering projects across infrastructure, residential, commercial, energy, and environmental sectors.
- YTL Live – Operators of an entertainment complex featuring a 20,000-capacity arena and exhibition space.
YTL UK thrives on diversity and inclusion and is committed to supporting armed forces veterans and employees with disabilities. If you require any reasonable adjustments during recruitment, please notify our Recruitment Team.
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