Operational Readiness Engineer (Electrical)

We’re supporting a major infrastructure program delivering complex capital projects across critical assets, with a focus on ensuring they are ready for safe, reliable, long-term operation.

This role sits within a dedicated reliability function, working across multiple projects to ensure assets transition effectively from delivery into operations, with the right maintenance strategies, standards and systems in place.

What you’ll be doing

• Supporting operational readiness across capital projects, ensuring assets are fit for purpose at handover
• Working alongside project managers to deliver key engineering, technical and maintenance outcomes
• Developing and embedding maintenance and reliability strategies for new and upgraded assets
• Ensuring assets are correctly structured, captured and maintained within systems such as Maximo
• Applying reliability methodologies, tools and standards to improve asset performance
• Identifying gaps pre-handover and driving practical, real-world solutions

What we’re looking for

• Degree-qualified Electrical Engineer
• Strong experience in reliability, maintenance or asset engineering within complex industrial environments
• Exposure to capital projects, commissioning or asset handover phases
• Knowledge of reliability principles, tools and standards (RCM, FMEA or similar)
• Experience working with maintenance systems and asset data structures
• Ability to operate as an SME and work across project and operational stakeholders

Highly regarded

• Experience in large utilities, water, energy or mining environments
• Postgraduate qualifications in Reliability Engineering
• Experience auditing or implementing maintenance standards and frameworks

Why this role stands out

• Work across a portfolio of major projects, not just a single asset
• Influence how assets are maintained and perform across their full lifecycle
• Move beyond pure delivery into a role that shapes long-term reliability outcomes
• Strong pipeline of work with an initial 12-month contract and extension potential

The opportunity

This role is well suited to engineers coming from:

• Electrical Commissioning or Start-up
• Reliability / Asset Engineering
• Project Engineering with strong maintenance exposure

…who want to step into a position where they can influence how assets are set up for success from day one of operations, not just delivered.