Engineering Contract Manager

Job overview

The role is an interim requirement to contract manage a tier-1 engineering consultancy to conduct:

• Critical Asset Failure Rate Analysis – complete a 10% review and quantify the probability of failure for life-critical systems. This may extend based on review.
• 5Year PPM Audit – validate maintenance completeness and identify systemic compliance gaps.
• In-House Direct Labour Team Assessment – Review and recommend staffing levels for standard-compliant critical PPM delivery.

The role will provide effective contract management duties to ensure performance, deliverables

Main duties of the job

• Responsible for leading the 3 workstream engineering baseline assessment and remedial actions plans.

Chair monthly steering committee meetings with the consultancy and key stakeholders to review progress, resolve issues, and ensure alignment with the consultancy assessment timeline.

Establish and enforce a structured review process for all consultancy deliverables, including Probability of Failure scoring validation, compliance gap analysis verification, and benchmarking against healthcare sector standards.

Coordinate the timely provision of all supporting data to the consultancy, including CAFM system exports, maintenance records, incident logs, and engineering drawings.

Ensure consultant findings are effectively integrated to inform the remediation delivery strategy.

• Maintain a risk register for the consultancy engagement with mitigation strategies and escalation protocols.
• Validate PoF scoring methodology and ensure consistency across asset categories.
• Oversee statistical sampling methodology to ensure robust audit coverage.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.