Director – Asset Management & Optimization

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Director – Asset Management & OptimizationK  Consultancy is seeking a commercially minded consulting leader to establish and grow its Asset Management & Optimization practice. This role will help energy and industrial clients maximize asset value across the lifecycle by improving reliability, availability, production, operating efficiency, capital allocation, and lifecycle economics.

The Director will lead practice strategy, business development, client engagement, and consulting delivery, leveraging K ’s engineering, technology, and project execution capabilities to deliver measurable client outcomes.

The successful candidate will combine strong technical and operational understanding with proven consulting, relationship-building, and commercial leadership skills.

The successful candidate will be based in Houston, TX, reporting to K  Consulting’s Sr. Regional Director.

Functional job responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

Practice Development & Growth Develop and execute the practice growth strategy, including target markets, service offerings, strategic partnerships, and revenue pipeline.

Build differentiated, value-based consulting solutions that address client operational and commercial priorities.

Business Development & Client Engagement Develop senior client relationships across energy companies, industrial operators, financial institutions, and other relevant stakeholders.

Lead opportunity development, proposals, commercial negotiations, and account growth.

Translate technical challenges into quantified business value and compelling client propositions.

Consulting Services & Technical Leadership Lead multidisciplinary engagements across the following service areas:

Asset Strategy & Economics:
Asset management strategy, maturity assessments, lifecycle economics, capital prioritization, and portfolio decisions.

Integrity, Reliability & RAM:
Asset integrity, risk-based inspection, reliability engineering, reliability/availability/maintainability (RAM) analysis, and remaining-life assessments.

Operations & Production Optimization:
Debottlenecking, production optimization, loss elimination, operational excellence, and energy efficiency.

Maintenance & Turnaround Excellence:
Maintenance strategy, work management, shutdowns, turnarounds, outages, and critical-spares optimization.

Digital Asset Performance:
Asset performance management (APM), predictive maintenance, digital twins, asset data, AI-enabled analytics, and digital work management.

Lifecycle Extension & Transition:
Life extension, obsolescence management, late-life asset strategy, repurposing, and decommissioning optimization.

Commercial & Team Leadership Ensure engagements deliver measurable improvements in safety, uptime, throughput, operating cost, capital efficiency, and asset value:

Manage engagement scope, staffing, budgets, quality, and profitability.

Build and develop a high-performing team of consultants and technical specialists.

Collaborate across K ’s engineering, technology, and project delivery capabilities to deliver integrated client solutions.

Required Education, Experience, &

Skills:

Typically 15+ years of relevant experience in asset management, reliability, operations, engineering, maintenance, or energy and industrial consulting.

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical discipline; MBA or other relevant business qualification preferred.

Demonstrated success in consulting business development, opportunity development, proposal leadership, and client relationship management.

Experience leading complex, multidisciplinary engagements and translating technical findings into commercial recommendations.

Strong understanding of asset lifecycle management, operating performance, reliability,…