MEICA Asset Management Consultant

Overview

At Atkins we offer an opportunity to make a difference and shape the world to benefit future generations and the natural environment.

Our Infrastructure Division is supporting many of the major infrastructure programmes across the UK as well as major international projects. Our focus is to deliver effective outcomes by optimising the performance of both new and existing assets. Our Infrastructure Asset Management Practice is a key component of this, enabling us to ensure customers’ outcomes are realised in the projects we undertake as well as delivering bespoke sector-specific solutions to optimise asset performance.

Atkins provides the opportunity to influence some of the most significant infrastructure programmes in the UK as well as develop and implement innovative solutions across the sector.

Our Services Include

Our Infrastructure Asset & Information Management practice delivers data-driven solutions as well as providing asset management, regulatory, and technical advice to a range of clients, both in the UK and internationally. We are looking for an enthusiastic, client and solution-oriented individual to lead and develop our asset performance business with our clients.

• Asset performance monitoring and benchmarking, including use/development of dashboards and digital tools to drive improved performance.
• Strategic Planning including development of risk-based decision-making tools and methodologies, and prioritisation.
• Tactical Planning. Turning Business Plans into reality and delivering outcomes.
• Assurance and regulatory advice both for UK Water utilities and internationally.
• Strategic Asset Management advice, including gap analysis and improvement plans against ISO
  55001/ business process engineering, business plan development.

Are you a MEICA professional passionate about improving the reliability, resilience, and performance of water and wastewater assets? In this role, you will help the UK’s leading water companies transform how they operate and maintain their asset base — from treatment works and pumping stations to ICA systems and network infrastructure.

You’ll apply your deep technical expertise and frontline operational insight to help clients reduce failures, optimise maintenance, strengthen regulatory performance, and deliver better outcomes for customers and the environment. Working at the intersection of engineering, analytics, and asset strategy, you’ll shape how water companies prepare for PR24/PR29, meet environmental obligations, and support long‑term asset planning.

Join us and play a central role in the sector’s journey toward smarter, more resilient, digitally enabled asset management.

• Develop asset health and maintenance performance frameworks tailored to water/wastewater treatment, networks, and ICA systems.
• Align strategies to Ofwat expectations, resilience metrics, and company performance commitments.
• Define criticality, levels of service, and risk‑based interventions consistent with water sector standards and good practice.

• Act as a trusted advisor to Water and Wastewater leadership teams, providing evidence‑based recommendations on investment, performance improvement, and operational risk.
• Support clients in preparing for price review submissions, business plans, and regulatory assurance.
• Build strong relationships with Operations, Maintenance, Asset Strategy, Engineering, and Capital Delivery teams.

• Develop KPIs and dashboards that reflect water industry needs customer interruption risk, environmental compliance, asset reliability, TOTEX impact, and serviceability.
• Apply MEICA, reliability engineering, and data analytics to reduce unplanned outages, improve availability, and optimise routine and reactive maintenance.

• Support the adoption of digital telemetry, condition monitoring, treatment process analytics, and predictive maintenance tools.
• Identify opportunities to enhance maintenance planning, work execution, OT/ICA reliability, and SCADA integration…