Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise, and enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, the firm combines global insight with local understanding.
The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms, with capabilities spanning strategy, transformation and operational excellence – all powered by advanced technology, data, AI and digital innovation.
Clients value Baringa’s collaborative approach and the way its teams integrate seamlessly – all working with a shared understanding of what matters most. The firm is known for its kind, curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success as they help clients transform energy markets, modernise financial platforms, expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics, enable digital services in government, and unlock growth in consumer sectors.
Certified as a Great Place to Work around the world, Baringa has been recognised by the Financial Times in 22 categories of its UK Leading Management Consultants rankings, and by Forbes for four consecutive years as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms.
Our Energy & Resources - Asset Management practice are looking for Manager with a solid operational technology (OT) background to join the team.
Our Asset & Operations Excellence teams help energy, utilities and industrial clients get more from their physical assets – improving safety, reliability, availability and whole-life cost across the asset lifecycle. We combine deep asset management and engineering expertise with modern enterprise asset management technology and data to help clients move from reactive maintenance to intelligent, insight-led asset management.
Operational technology sits at the heart of this. The control systems, telemetry and operational data that run our clients’ networks and plant are increasingly the foundation for predictive maintenance, remote operations and AI-enabled decision making, and they must be integrated with core IT and protected against a growing cyber threat. This role is for someone with hands-on OT experience who wants to apply it in a consulting environment, helping clients connect their operational systems and data to better asset outcomes.
What you will be doing
You’ll work as part of client teams delivering asset management and operational improvement programmes for asset-intensive clients across energy, utilities and major infrastructure, contributing to current-state assessments, operating model design and implementation, with a particular focus on the OT and control systems landscape.
You’ll help assess clients’ OT estates, including SCADA, DCS, PLC/RTU, telemetry, data historians and condition monitoring systems, gathering and analysing information and contributing to recommendations and roadmaps.
You’ll support the design of integrations and data flows between OT systems and EAM / CMMS platforms such as IBM Maximo, ERP and analytics platforms, helping operational data drive condition-based and predictive maintenance.
You’ll contribute to OT resilience work, for example assessing controls against industry frameworks and helping document governance, change control, data ownership (RACI) and support models for critical systems.
You’ll help explore and test how operational data, industrial IoT, digital twins and AI can improve asset performance, safety and availability, including developing use cases and supporting proofs of concept.
You’ll support the handover of engineering and OT data from capital projects into operations, helping ensure new and upgraded assets go live with trusted data and integrated systems.
You’ll own discrete pieces of analysis and deliverables, help run workshops and interviews with client stakeholders, and build strong day-to-day working relationships with client teams.
You’ll support & contribute to proposals and thought leadership, and help grow our OT and asset operations propositions within a steadily growing practice.
Your skills and experience
You’ve built early-to-mid career experience in operational technology, control systems or industrial automation within an asset-intensive sector – energy, utilities, oil and gas, water, manufacturing or similar – whether in industry, with a system integrator or OEM, or in consulting.
You’ve practical, hands-on experience with OT technologies such as SCADA, DCS, PLC/RTU or data historians (for example AVEVA PI), and a working understanding of industrial protocols (for example OPC UA, Modbus or DNP3) and OT network architectures such as the Purdue model.
You understand how OT data connects to the wider technology landscape, such as EAM / CMMS platforms like IBM Maximo, ERP and analytics platforms. Maximo experience is a bonus but not essential.
You’ve an interest in asset management and maintenance and reliability principles, such as condition-based monitoring; exposure to ISO 55000 is helpful but not required.
You’ve contributed to change or improvement projects, whether in consulting, industry or a major programme, and are confident owning your own deliverables, managing your time across tasks and turning analysis into clear, practical recommendations.
You’ve strong analytical, written and verbal communication skills, and you’re comfortable working with client stakeholders from control room engineers and operations managers through to IT and digital teams.
You’re curious about how emerging technologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are changing OT and asset operations; any experience with AI, IIoT or advanced analytics solutions is a plus.
You’re eager to learn and grow in a consulting environment and interested in the energy transition.
What a career at Baringa will give you
Putting People First.
Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:
Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.
Flexible Working: We know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.
Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.
Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.
Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.
Diversity and Inclusion
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people.
An award-winning workplace
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Using business as a force for good.
We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve.
We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work, and offer a variety of ways to contribute, by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills, talent and time. In essence, we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about, and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.
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