Asset Support Engineer

Company: Mark Stracey Recruitment
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Location: Surrey
Job Description:

Asset Management Engineer – Hydrocarbon Processing Facility

Hampshire | Up to £60,000 | 15% Bonus + Outstanding Benefits

We are seeking an Asset Management Engineer to play a key role in improving equipment reliability, maintenance effectiveness and long-term asset performance across a major COMAH-regulated hydrocarbon processing facility.

Working closely with Engineering, Maintenance and Operations teams, you will help shape maintenance strategy, optimise maintenance programmes and support informed engineering decision-making across a diverse range of critical plant assets.

This is an excellent opportunity for an engineer with strong maintenance, reliability or asset management experience who enjoys combining technical knowledge with data-driven decision making to improve plant performance and reliability.

Key Responsibilities

  • Use asset management systems and equipment data to improve asset reliability, availability and maintenance effectiveness.
  • Support the development and implementation of maintenance and asset management strategies.
  • Review maintenance programmes and identify opportunities to improve equipment performance and reliability.
  • Analyse maintenance and asset data and provide practical recommendations to engineering and management teams.
  • Develop KPI reporting and asset performance metrics.
  • Support annual and long-term maintenance budgeting activities.
  • Assist with maintenance planning, work order development and schedule optimisation.
  • Interpret engineering drawings, maintenance manuals and technical documentation.
  • Work closely with Engineering, Maintenance and Operations personnel to drive continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Support ongoing development and optimisation of asset management systems and processes.
  • Help identify opportunities to improve maintenance efficiency, asset utilisation and lifecycle performance.

Requirements

  • Engineering or technical qualification (Mechanical, Electrical, Maintenance, Reliability, Process or similar).
  • Experience working with industrial plant equipment and maintenance activities.
  • Experience using CMMS/EAM systems as part of maintenance, reliability or asset management activities.
  • Strong understanding of asset management, maintenance and reliability principles.
  • Ability to interpret technical and maintenance data and recommend practical improvements.
  • Strong communication, stakeholder management and problem-solving skills.
  • Comfortable discussing equipment performance and maintenance requirements with engineers, technicians and operational personnel.

Experience with equipment such as:

  • Pumps
  • Compressors
  • Pressure vessels
  • Pipework systems
  • Heat exchangers
  • Distillation columns
  • Turbines
  • Rotating and static plant equipment would be highly beneficial.

Desirable

  • Maintenance Planning experience.
  • Reliability Engineering experience.
  • Asset Integrity experience.
  • Experience supporting maintenance optimisation initiatives.
  • Experience with Power BI, VBA, Python, HxGN, Octave or similar reporting and analysis tools.

This role could suit

  • Reliability Engineers.
  • Maintenance Engineers.
  • Asset Engineers.
  • Mechanical Engineers with maintenance experience.
  • Asset Integrity Engineers.
  • Maintenance Planners.
  • Senior Technicians looking to move into Asset Management.

Package

  • Salary up to £60,000 DOE.
  • Potential 15% STIP Bonus.
  • 10% Company Pension Contribution.
  • Private Medical Insurance.
  • Group Life Assurance (8x salary).
  • Group Income Protection.
  • £600 annual gym allowance.
  • 25 days holiday.

This is an opportunity to join a well-established industrial operation where you’ll have genuine influence over maintenance strategy, equipment reliability and long-term asset performance, while working alongside experienced engineering, maintenance and operations teams.

Posted: July 1st, 2026