Field Maintenance Strategy, Obsolescence & Delivery Manager
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Description
Job title: Field Maintenance Strategy, Obsolescence & Delivery Manager
Location: London Field
About The Role And The Team
The Field Maintenance Strategy, Obsolescence & Delivery Manager is responsible for leading the strategy, planning, and delivery of field maintenance and asset lifecycle initiatives across the network portfolio. The role focuses on driving proactive maintenance practices, managing asset obsolescence, and ensuring the effective delivery of field programmes.
What will you be doing?
Field Portfolio Ownership
Location: London Field
About The Role And The Team
The Field Maintenance Strategy, Obsolescence & Delivery Manager is responsible for leading the strategy, planning, and delivery of field maintenance and asset lifecycle initiatives across the network portfolio. The role focuses on driving proactive maintenance practices, managing asset obsolescence, and ensuring the effective delivery of field programmes.
What will you be doing?
Field Portfolio Ownership
- Own the delivery and performance of the field network portfolio, ensuring assets are maintained effectively and aligned with operational priorities.
- Monitor asset performance and maintenance outcomes to drive improvements in reliability and service continuity.
- Proactive Maintenance Strategy
- Develop and implement proactive maintenance strategies to reduce incidents, prevent repeat failures, and improve overall network resilience.
- Analyse maintenance and operational data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for preventive interventions.
- Define and execute the asset obsolescence strategy and long-term roadmap for field infrastructure.
- Identify aging or unsupported technologies and develop mitigation, replacement, or upgrade plans to ensure ongoing operational capability.
- Provide PMO leadership for field programmes, ensuring structured governance, planning, and reporting.
- Oversee programme delivery to ensure initiatives are delivered on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards.
- Ensure clear risk identification, mitigation planning, and escalation across maintenance and field delivery programmes.
- Work closely with engineering, operations, supply chain, and project teams to coordinate maintenance activities and programme delivery.
- Provide clear communication and reporting to senior stakeholders on asset health, risks, and programme progress.
- Strategic asset management
- Programme and portfolio delivery
- Risk management and governance
- Operational performance improvement
- Stakeholder leadership
- Data-driven decision making
- Strong experience in field maintenance, asset management, or infrastructure operations within a telco/broadband organisation
- Proven ability to develop and implement proactive maintenance and reliability strategies.
- Experience managing asset obsolescence and lifecycle planning.
- Demonstrated programme or project management capability, including PMO governance and delivery oversight.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret operational and maintenance data.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Creating and managing budgets.
- Commercially astute, able to identify TCO and compare benefits between different options. Able to understand the key points from contracts and agreements.
- Full and clean driving licence is a must.
- Competitive salary
- Global Remote working for up to 2 week per year for those who are able to work remotely
- 25 days' paid holiday increasing each year, to a max of 35
- Extra days off for your birthday, moving home, wedding/civil partnership and to volunteer
- Private medical Insurance provided by AXA health
What happens next?
- You apply
- We carefully review your application
- We'll get back to you — even if it's a no (for now)