Senior Asset Management Consultant

• Compensation: USD 140,000 - USD 160,000 - yearly

Company Description

At AMCL, a Turner & Townsend Company, you’ll join a global team of thought leaders committed to making a difference to infrastructure and society. If you bring your talent, enthusiasm, and creativity, we’ll help you realize your potential, providing the opportunity to learn, develop and work on our exciting projects happening around the world.

For 75 years Turner & Townsend has been helping to deliver transformational programs across the real estate, infrastructure, and natural resources sectors, making a difference in people’s lives and ensuring a return on investment for our clients and their investors. With 22,000 experts across more than 60 countries, Turner & Townsend is an independent professional services company specializing in program management, project management, cost management and consulting across the real estate, infrastructure, and natural resources sectors.

In 2017, AMCL joined forces with Turner & Townsend. AMCL is recognized as the world’s leading specialist infrastructure, asset management and asset information consultancy. We have built a global reputation for leadership in asset management thinking and on-the-ground delivery. AMCL was founded in 1997 and has worked with over 400 infrastructure organizations globally, across the energy, transportation, and utility sectors. Our teams thrive on the opportunities to share learning and good practice with our clients enabling them to realize true value from the work we deliver. With headquarters in the UK and branches around the globe, including New York City, AMCL has one of the largest teams of dedicated Infrastructure asset management consultants in the world.

Job Description

AMCL is looking to recruit a Senior Asset Management Consultant into the US team. The role will support the delivery of a variety of consultancy and transformation projects for high profile infrastructure organizations across multiple sectors, including transit, power, municipal, ports, and real estate. The role provides an opportunity to work on a variety of projects including asset management capability improvement and Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) implementation projects, asset information projects, and data analytics.

The role will be based on the West Coast; however, there will be the opportunity to support projects nationally.

Key Responsibilities

• Work as a Senior Consultant within the delivery team and support the implementation of business and digital transformation projects, including asset management consultancy, asset management technology, and data and information projects.
• Work independently, lead, or collaborate with the wider US or global team to deliver the complete lifecycle of asset management transformation projects, from sourcing to project closure.
• Consult with clients in the improvement of their asset management capabilities.
• Lead and manage the delivery of asset management projects and tasks for clients on time, to budget, and in line with the AMCL project governance requirements.
• Identify, manage, and support business development and sales activities, including identifying new opportunities, supporting bid work, writing proposals, and developing presentations.
• Support project management, including tracking budget and schedule, identifying risks and issues, participate in status meetings, and develop monthly progress reports.
• Deliver project work, including but not limited to, facilitating internal and external interviews and workshops, writing reports, and delivering presentations.
• Conduct business and functional requirements elicitation workshops, develop and maintain Requirements Traceability Matrices.
• Conduct as-is business processes elicitation workshops and to-be business process design workshops, including definition of asse management technology use-cases.
• Conduct data analyses, ETL and cleansing including complex datasets; identifying trends and insights; and producing data quality report outputs.
• Develop financial models, including whole lifecycle cost modeling and analysis.
• Develop and produce asset management artefacts on behalf and in collaboration with clients.
• Contribute to leading thinking on emerging business and asset management topics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related fields.
• Minimum of seven years of experience performing similar work with or on behalf of an infrastructure organization
• Strong analytical skills, including experience with data analytics and whole lifecycle cost analysis
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel (e.g., formulas, pivot tables, VBA, etc.)
• Ability to work autonomously and under minimal direction from project teams to develop high-quality deliverables
• Critical thinker and problem solver, ability to diagnose root causes and apply knowledge and experience to solve problems creatively
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to translate complex concepts and findings into clear, concise, and accessible insights
• Strong people and interpersonal skills
• Strong attention to detail and organization skills
• Self-starter, proactive, and takes initiative
• Demonstrates high emotional intelligence and maturity

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience of working in an infrastructure Asset Management organization and knowledge of the phases of the asset lifecycle (Acquire, Operate, Maintain, Dispose) and its enablers e.g. Asset Information & asset risk. Including an understanding of business process flows such as Asset Management Plan development, Work Management, Safety Management or Inventory Management.
• Experience in business integration in large enterprise systems implementations, preferably working adjacent to or overseeing an SI, on behalf of the client.
• Development of Asset Information Strategies, Asset Information Standards, Asset Information Specification/Models (i.e. data dictionary).
• Understanding of the IT enterprise application and technology landscape and marketplace – including EAM, ERP, GIS, BIM, Mobility, Real-time, and Analytics solutions.
• Business Analyst skills, including eliciting business and functional requirements, preferably with experience in business process re-engineering.
• Understanding of Business Architecture or Target Operating Model design and implementation.
• Understanding of information and data governance approaches, including data audit, familiarity with ISO8000.
• Understanding of Building Information Modelling (BIM) concepts and approaches to project Asset Information handover from the Acquire phase.
• Understanding of Asset Management standards e.g. ISO 55001, and asset information standards, e.g. PAS1192, ISO14224, ISO8000
• Knowledge of Enterprise IT application functionality in asset information systems domain, preferably Maximo, HxGN/Octave, Trapeze, SAP, and Oracle.
• IAM familiarity or Diploma and/or Chartered status from a relevant professional body.

Additional Information

AMCL employees should feel that they are part of a team and that opportunities are always available to them.

We provide and encourage:

• Clear mechanisms and arrangements for career progression
• Consistent and open communication, informing the team of new developments and encouraging them to give feedback, suggestions and constructive criticism
• A sense of pride and understanding in the services and products of AMCL and how we communicate and deliver them
• A workplace where AMCL team members feel supported, enabled and rewarded
• A culture that is fair, engaging, enjoyable and provides clear accountability and personal ownership

In turn, we expect all of our employees to exhibit the following core behaviors:

• Make change happen - embraces change, showing initiative and willingness to take responsibility for solving challenges
• Do better every day - focuses on efficient and effective execution to improve performance. Shows determination and resilience to deliver to the highest possible ethical standards
• Collaborate to deliver our best work - cooperates and collaborates effectively with others. Shares ideas and listens to the contributions of others. Discusses and challenges constructively
• Influence to build a better world - communicates clearly, influences effectively and builds a wide range of connections. Aware of the issues affecting our clients, communities and the environment
• Always learning - develops technical, business and behavioral competence, keeping knowledge up-to-date and utilizing feedback. Shows curiosity about new developments, learning and insights. Works towards professional accreditation, where required
• Treat each other with care and respect - listens attentively to others and treats them with empathy and courtesy. Supports colleagues when needed. Raises concerns about unacceptable behavior

*On site requirements might change based on client needs*

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.