Maximo Functional Consultant

Maximo Functional Consultant
Location: Central Birmingham
Reporting to: Maximo Functional Team Lead
Employment Type: Full-time - hybrid working
Salary: £70-90k p.a. CWE
​Our client is a specialist IT organisation providing Software as a Service (SaaS), implementation, and consultancy services to customers across public and private sectors. Their team is passionate about delivering high-impact solutions and ensuring customer success through exceptional service delivery. They are a pan European organisation that has grown significantly in the past few years with exciting and ambitious plans for significant growth across the UK over the next five years.
They are an innovative digital solutions provider to the UK Asset and Infrastructure sectors inspiring and equipping customers to achieve their digital transformation goals, building a greener, smarter, more reliable approach. Providing social and environmentally responsible solutions that embrace and recognise the creativity and diversity of their people
Our client is an IBM Platinum Business Partner, and leverages these and other partner products to offer their services. They help organisations improve their processes, analytics, and technology to meet the operational and customer service challenges within their businesses.
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Role Purpose
The Maximo functional consultant is responsible for configuring, implementing, and supporting IBM's Maximo Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) system. The consultant is responsible for analysing client requirements and configuring Maximo solutions. They serve as the subject matter expert on Maximo functionality and advise clients on how to optimize Maximo to achieve their asset management goals, providing expert guidance on best practices for asset management processes.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
Requirements Analysis:
Collaborate with clients to understand their business requirements for asset management.
Conduct thorough analysis of client processes and workflows to identify areas for improvement.
​Maximo Configuration:
Configure and customize IBM Maximo to meet client-specific business needs.
Implement and optimize Maximo modules such as Asset Management, Work Order Management, Inventory Management, and others.
Implementation and Integration:
Lead Maximo implementation projects, ensuring successful deployment within specified timelines.
Integrate Maximo with other enterprise systems, such as ERP, GIS, and IoT platforms.
Training and Support:
Provide training to end-users on Maximo functionalities and best practices.
Offer ongoing support to clients, addressing issues and implementing enhancements as needed.
Documentation:
Create comprehensive documentation for Maximo configurations, customizations, and integrations.
Prepare user manuals and training materials.
Quality Assurance:
Conduct thorough testing of Maximo configurations to ensure accuracy and functionality.
Perform quality assurance checks on client implementations.
Key Skills and Competencies
Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills.
Business analysis:
Investigates operational requirements, problems, and opportunities, seeking effective business solutions through improvements in automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes.
Assists in the analysis of stakeholder objectives, and the underlying issues arising from investigations into business requirements and problems and identifies options for consideration.
Works with stakeholders, to identify potential benefits and available options for consideration, and in defining acceptance tests.
Contributes to selection of the business analysis methods, tools, and techniques for projects, selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
Consultancy:
Takes responsibility for understanding client requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis and problem resolution.
Identifies, evaluates, and recommends options, implementing if required.
Collaborates with, and facilitates stakeholder groups, as part of formal or informal consultancy agreements.
Seeks to fully address client needs, enhancing the capabilities and effectiveness of client personnel, by ensuring that proposed solutions are properly understood and appropriately exploited.
Sales support:
Works closely with the sales team to help prospects to clarify their needs and requirements; devises solutions and assesses their feasibility and practicality.
Demonstrates technical feasibility using physical or simulation models.
Produces estimates of cost and risk and initial project plans to inform sales proposals.
Resolves technical problems.
Methods and tools:
Provides advice and guidance to support adoption of methods and tools and adherence to policies and standards.
Provides input to the maintenance of the MACS configuration standards, methods and tools.
Reviews and improves usage and application of methods and tools.​
Required Qualifications and Experience
Qualifications & Certifications
Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline.
IBM Certified Deployment Professional – Maximo Asset Management or equivalent certification.
Experience
Minimum 3 - 5 years’ experience working as a Maximo Functional Consultant.
Proven experience with IBM Maximo Asset Management versions 7.6.x or later.
Experience in requirements gathering, process mapping, and solution design within Maximo.
Demonstrated ability in writing functional specifications and user documentation.
Track record of successful implementations or upgrades of Maximo in a variety of industry sectors
Successful candidates must also have the right to work in the UK and must have lived in the UK continuously for the past 5 years. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security required is security check. Successful candidates must also complete basic personnel security standard checks.
What our client offers:
A dynamic and supportive work environment
Aan equal opportunity employer and values diversity in the workplace
Flexible/hybrid working options
Opportunities for growth in a fast-scaling business
The chance to make a meaningful impact across a variety of high-profile programmes
Employee benefits such as private healthcare, pension scheme and more