Overview

As Director, you will lead the integral Asset Lifecycle Management and Utilities program to maximise asset value across their lifecycle. You’ll shape strategy, policy, and standards in collaboration with regional teams to align with sustainability and operational excellence. You will drive energy efficiency, decarbonisation readiness, and capital project integration, delivering measurable improvements in reliability and lifecycle costs. This role combines strategic leadership with deep technical execution to enable Kerry’s sustainable growth.

Responsabilidades

- Develop and deploy a multi-year ALM strategy aligned with growth, manufacturing excellence, asset insurability and sustainability
- Set global asset design, maintainability, reliability, operability and lifecycle cost standards
- Define asset criticality frameworks and lifecycle processes across sites
- Embed energy efficiency, carbon, water, waste, refrigerant and climate-resilience into asset decisions
- Create asset-class transition pathways for high-energy/fossil-fuel assets
- Establish world-class asset care practices and reliability methodologies (RCM, FMEA, RCA, predictive/conditional maintenance)
- Partner with site teams to reduce failures and downtime; optimize spares and manage critical asset risk
- Lead global utility performance programs across steam, refrigeration, HVAC,



water/wastewater systems
- Ensure lifecycle principles in capital project planning and asset integration
- Drive digital asset management (CMMS/EAM, APM, predictive analytics, IoT, digital twins)
- Establish governance, KPI frameworks and capability building in Engineering, Maintenance and Operations
- Collaborate with risk management and insurers; address climate risks and asset stranding threats
- Support asset design reviews, start-up, commissioning and operational readiness

Requisitos principales
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering; master’s or relevant certification preferred
- Minimum 15 years of experience in asset management and utilities with lifecycle focus
- Experience developing global standards in multi-site manufacturing environments
- Familiarity with ISO 55000, asset management systems (AMS) and CMMS/EAM solutions (e.g., MaintainX)
- Experience with insurers, risk engineers and loss prevention in manufacturing
- Proven track record integrating energy, carbon, water and resilience into asset/CapEx decisions

- leadership and strategic thinking
- cross-functional collaboration
- excellent stakeholder management
- CMMS/EAM platforms (MaintainX)
- Asset Performance Management (APM)
- Predictive analytics and condition monitoring

📌 Director, Asset Lifecycle Management and Utilities - barcelona
🏢 Kerry Group
📍 Barcelona