Principal Technical Consultant – Asset Integrity & Asset Management

Principal Technical Consultant – Asset Integrity & Asset Management

K  is seeking a Principal Consultant with asset integrity, life extension, and asset management consulting experience to join our international consulting organisation. The successful candidate will be a senior technical leader, providing high‑value advisory and practical engineering input across the full asset lifecycle, helping clients manage asset integrity and risk, improve reliability, and optimise performance.

Act as a technical authority on asset integrity management and structural/mechanical life extension, including facilities, infrastructure and equipment in operating/brownfield environments.

• Structured asset life extension evaluations, including HSE and business risk‑based approaches.
• Debottlenecking studies including identification of existing constraints in a logical, sequenced manner against client production objectives, ranging from least costly, easiest implementation to more involved and costly solutions.
• Mechanical integrity and inspection program assessments / gap closure, including management systems, procedures, execution, documentation and training, and a multi‑year continuous improvement model.
• Integrity Operating Window (IOW) / Damage mechanism reviews / Corrosion Control Document (CCD) program development or validation and equipment reliability reviews to control and monitor damage mechanisms; or determine end of life.
• Risk Based Inspection (RBI) program implementations.
• Fitness‑for‑Service (FFS) evaluations (Per API 579) and assessment of pressure equipment damage (including use of Finite Element Analysis (FEA) where appropriate).
• Perform fire damage assessments to evaluate inspection and repair requirements.
• Equipment asset care strategies and life cycle analysis, and operator care / on‑stream monitoring programs. Develop and review high‑quality technical deliverables including reports, presentations, models and decision support materials, applying engineering judgement to identify integrity threats, operational constraints, risk drivers, and value‑led intervention options.

• Act as a trusted technical advisor to clients, communicating effectively at both technical and executive levels, translating complex engineering topics into clear, decision‑ready business insights.
• Support client discussions and delivery across the four core asset management pillars:
• Asset Integrity Management (life extension, Mechanical Integrity (MI), inspection strategies, FFS, IOW/CCD).
• Risk Management (insurance / loss control advisory, Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA), HSSE / PSM programs).
• Reliability Programs (criticality, RAM, FMEA, electrical infrastructure, machinery lifecycle).
• Process Optimisation (risk registers, turnaround scope optimisation, debottlenecking, business processes).

• Criticality analysis (rotating machinery and static equipment).
• RAM analysis, including operability assurance and sparing optimisation for new and existing units and utilities.
• Troubleshooting equipment performance leveraging discipline Subject Matter Experts and applying Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) methodology where appropriate.
• Failure Mode & Effect Analysis (FMEA) and failure mode reviews.
• Electrical infrastructure support (preventive maintenance programs, power system modelling e.g., ETAP, and electrical asset life extension programs).
• Static & rotating machinery design & life cycle management (Preventative Maintenance (PM) / Predictive Maintenance (PdM) programs, lubrication/vibration/operator care strategies).

• Risk register development to evaluate business and safety risk and optimise CAPEX/maintenance spend.
• Turnaround & planned outage support, including TAR strategy / interval definition, risk‑based scope development and scope challenge processes, critical path definition / optimisation, preparedness reviews, and post‑TAR lessons learned.
• Process engineering optimisation, such as process modelling/optimisation, debottlenecking studies, Process Safety Valve (PSV) studies, and catalyst life evaluation.
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