Director – Asset Management & Optimization

KBR•Houston, TX

19h

About The Position

KBR Consultancy is seeking a commercially minded consulting leader to establish and grow its Asset Management & Optimization practice. The role helps energy and industrial clients maximize asset value throughout 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, drawing on KBR’s engineering, technology, and project execution capabilities to achieve measurable client outcomes. The position is based in Houston, Texas, and reports to KBR Consulting’s Sr. Regional Director. The Director will develop the practice’s growth strategy, service offerings, target markets, partnerships, and revenue pipeline; build senior client relationships; and lead opportunity development, proposals, commercial negotiations, and account growth. The role also leads multidisciplinary engagements in asset strategy and economics; integrity, reliability, and RAM; operations and production optimization; maintenance and turnaround excellence; digital asset performance; and lifecycle extension and transition. The Director is accountable for engagement scope, staffing, budgets, quality, and profitability, and for measurable improvements in safety, uptime, throughput, operating cost, capital efficiency, and asset value. The role includes building and developing a high-performing team and collaborating with KBR engineering, technology, and project delivery teams to provide integrated client solutions.

Requirements

Typically 15 or more 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.
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, maintenance, and lifecycle economics.
Demonstrated ability to develop service offerings, grow client accounts, and deliver profitable consulting engagements.
Strong executive communication, commercial judgment, and stakeholder management skills.

Nice To Haves

MBA or another relevant business qualification.
Experience in energy, oil and gas, power, refining and chemicals, LNG, infrastructure, or other asset-intensive industries.
Relevant asset operations experience.
Client relationships in the Americas region.
Experience with digital asset performance and analytics.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute the practice growth strategy, including target markets, service offerings, strategic partnerships, and revenue pipeline.
Build differentiated, value-based consulting solutions addressing client operational and commercial priorities.
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.
Lead multidisciplinary engagements in asset strategy and economics, including strategy, maturity assessments, lifecycle economics, capital prioritization, and portfolio decisions.
Lead work in asset integrity, risk-based inspection, reliability engineering, RAM analysis, and remaining-life assessments.
Lead operations and production optimization work, including debottlenecking, loss elimination, operational excellence, and energy efficiency.
Lead maintenance and turnaround work, including maintenance strategy, work management, shutdowns, turnarounds, outages, and critical-spares optimization.
Lead digital asset performance work involving APM, predictive maintenance, digital twins, asset data, AI-enabled analytics, and digital work management.
Lead lifecycle extension and transition work, including life extension, obsolescence management, late-life asset strategy, repurposing, and decommissioning optimization.
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 KBR’s engineering, technology, and project delivery capabilities to deliver integrated client solutions.