Asset Lifecycle Manager - Civils

Why Manchester Airport?

Every year, Manchester Airport connects over 30 million passengers with more than 200 destinations across the globe. As the third largest airport in the UK, Manchester is also in the top 20 airports in Europe. Part of the largest UK-owned airport operator group, MAG, Manchester Airport supports over 19,000 jobs onsite and generates around £7.75bn each year for the region.

Sustainability is one of our core values, and it shapes everything we do. We’re committed to protecting the environment and supporting our local communities. Our programmes include airport and airline decarbonisation, comprehensive education, skills and employment support, and community engagement initiatives including volunteering opportunities.

At MAG, we recognise that creating a first-class journey for our customers starts with creating a first-class career journey for our colleagues. We’re committed to building inclusive environments where our people can thrive. You’ll also have access to some great benefits, including:

- Bonus scheme

- 10% company contribution pension

- Car allowance

- Private medical scheme

- 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays

- Free parking

- Subsidised public transport

- A huge range of company discounts

- Two volunteering days per year

- Free Virtual GP service, available 24 hours a day, seven days a week

- Care Concierge service

The role

As our Asset Lifecycle Manager for Civils, you’ll help shape how Manchester Airport’s civil infrastructure is maintained, renewed and developed over the long term.

You’ll use asset condition, performance and criticality data to build whole-life asset management plans, improve maintenance strategies and make well-informed investment decisions. With responsibility for civil asset renewal requirements across one-year, five-year and 25-year plans, your work will support safe and reliable operations while helping the airport get the best long-term value from its infrastructure.

Working across Asset Management, Engineering, Operations, Capital Delivery, Procurement, Finance and Technology, you’ll turn technical insight into clear plans and investment cases. It’s an opportunity to make a lasting impact in a complex operational environment, helping to protect critical assets while supporting Manchester Airport’s future growth.

Your key responsibilities will include:

- Building and managing whole-life asset management plans that support operational performance, regulatory compliance and long-term business planning.

- Managing asset criticality, condition and performance models, ensuring that decisions are supported by reliable and accurate data.

- Developing and continually improving maintenance and condition-assessment plans for civil assets.

- Ensuring maintenance plans meet relevant safety, statutory and regulatory requirements.

- Keeping asset plans and condition assessments accurate and up to date within Maximo.

- Reviewing maintenance performance, auditing compliance and adjusting plans to improve asset availability and lifecycle value.

- Developing and managing Manchester Airport’s civil asset renewal requirements across its in-year, five-year and 25-year capital plans.

- Identifying and prioritising investment needs, developing business cases and sponsoring approved projects through the capital gateway process.

- Using whole-life costing and asset-deterioration modelling to strengthen long-term investment decisions.

- Building collaborative relationships across Operations, Engineering, Capital Delivery, Technology, Procurement and Finance.

- Bringing insight into civil-engineering best practice, emerging technology and opportunities to improve asset performance and value.

What will make you successful in this role?

You’ll bring strong asset-management experience gained within civil engineering, transport, utilities or another infrastructure-led environment. You’ll understand how asset condition, performance, risk and cost come together to shape maintenance and investment decisions.

You’ll also have:

- Around five years’ asset-management experience, gained through professional experience, relevant qualifications or a combination of both.

- A good understanding of civil-engineering assets and their maintenance, condition and renewal requirements.

- Experience creating asset-management, maintenance or capital-renewal plans.

- The ability to analyse asset data and make considered decisions, including where information may be incomplete.

- Commercial awareness and experience of risk management, financial appraisal and whole-life cost analysis.

- Experience developing business cases or clear investment recommendations.

- Strong stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to balance different operational, technical and commercial priorities.

- Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to make complex technical information accessible to different audiences.

- A degree or relevant professional qualification in Civil Engineering or Asset Management would be essential.

- Chartered Civil Engineer status, or progress towards chartership, would also be advantageous.

Equal Opportunities & Reasonable Adjustments

We’re building something brilliant at MAG: a diverse team of Journey Makers who share our values and want to make a difference. We’re on a mission to be number one in our industry, and that takes talent in all its forms. With so many exciting roles across our airports and businesses, there’s space for your unique strengths to shine.

Whether this is your first role or your next big step, we want to hear from you – even if you don’t think you tick every box. What matters most is what you bring.

We’re proud to be a Disability Confident employer. If you need any adjustments to support your application or interview, just let us know. We’re committed to helping you perform at your best.

At MAG, every journey matters. Our Colleague Communities play a big part in that: Women’s Network, Embrace (Race & Ethnicity), Fly with Pride (LGBTQIA+), Mind Matters (Mental Health), PACT (Parents & Carers), RespectABILITY (Disability & Neurodiversity), and the CAVU Global ID&E Affinity Group.