Australia’s leading asset management,
risk engineering and project consultancy

Meet Our Leadership Team

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Brian Smith

LLM, MBA, FIEAust CPEng, NER, APEC Engineer IntPE, RPEQ Maintenance, Engineering and Business Professional

Brian is one of Australia’s leading asset management professionals. Highly qualified and experienced, his background in maintenance, reliability, risk management, governance and compliance, planning, scheduling and project management has seen him operate at the highest levels of corporate asset management governance.

Brian specialises in applying his wealth of knowledge to the mining, manufacturing, public sector, government and defence sectors, ensuring top level strategic analysis and supporting documentation across reliability programs, asset management and integrity programs, asset performance for remediation and improvement.

Brian has an enviable track record managing high performance, complex and multi-disciplinary maintenance and engineering divisions, establishing process and function workflow systems including maintenance management, analysis and improvement, project and program management, department structuring, asset optimisation, management and improvement, reliability and CMMS.

Brian is a progressive leader with a demonstrated commitment to safe working operations that deliver cost-effective, documented, lawful and sustainable outcomes for clients.

Kate Smith

BBus(HRM) DipBus(HRM) MRCSA AHRI Prince2

Kate is an experienced and highly qualified recruitment and talent acquisition manager with a demonstrated successful career working within technically orientated large and complex organisations.

Kate’s philosophy is simple and holistic. Employee, contractor, candidate or client, she treats everyone with kindness, respect, dignity, understanding, honesty and loyalty. As head of talent acquisition, she is acutely aware of the benefits of developing relationships for the long term.

What may not be the best fit today, may be tomorrow. Investing time and expertise into all candidates and clients is a proven formula for business success.

Kate’s professionalism has seen her take senior HR leadership roles across a broad range of technical industries. She is invested in client outcomes and takes the time to understand each client’s needs, strengths and challenges. She prides herself on her ability to take the deep dive approach, matching the most suitable and qualified candidate to successfully exceed the client’s expectations.

Kate puts the welfare of all stakeholders first. She is responsible for workforce planning and resource management, training and development, recruitment and selection, and various HR administration functions.

She has the experience and expertise to assist organisations with their HR planning and policy development as well as delivering the highest quality engineering and asset management experts.

Specialist asset management consultants at every touchpoint of your business

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AMREP has developed a nationwide network of highly qualified professional consultants with trade and engineering industry experience working across high-level complex operations.

We fully vet each consultant to ensure they align with our company values. Consultants recommended by AMREP have extensive experience, relevant industry qualifications and are chosen to meet each client’s requirements.

Our years of managing high performance teams and working for and with Australia’s leading companies ensure we offer candidates who best fit the profile of your business. Our extensive network enables our consultants to collaborate with and plug into a cluster of specialists across multi-disciplinary fields, ensuring a full suite of support and expertise is at your disposal.

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HR and organisational change experts

AMREP, formerly Optimised Maintenance Pty Ltd, provides a full-service consultancy. Our professional and thorough approach ensures that we screen and vet all consultants prior to candidacy.

Our network of trade and engineering consultants have been through a rigorous preselection process to ensure they meet the qualifications and experience requirements and possess the character traits of integrity, honesty and respect that represent our business values.

Our recruitment procedures ensure we conduct a deep dive analysis on the individual, unlocking their true potential and enhancing their professional growth opportunities. Our successful and fluid formula ensures we select the very best candidate for the role whilst maintaining a stable of leading industry specialists.

Partner with the industry leaders in asset management

Whether your organisation is experiencing ageing asset issues or you have been tasked with a complete asset management overhaul across a large, complex and multi-location site, contact our team today for a confidential no obligation discussion.

Our Expertise

Asset Management

Australia’s leading asset management consultancy firm, AMREP is headed by one of Australia’s most experienced and qualified asset management and risk engineering professionals. We focus on objective, lawful and safe outcomes that add measurable value to all assets.

Risk Engineering

AMREP’s utilises risk, systems and discipline engineering skill sets to create meaningful asset management improvement.
Our methodology and techniques ensure our team can provide meaningful value and better manage asset performance risk.

Project Consultancy

AMREP’s Asset Management Project consultancy delivers change on behalf of organisations including physical asset change, process change, organisational change and structural change. Our process ensures that identified improvement opportunities are delivered on our client’s behalf.

Australia’s leading asset management, risk engineering and project consultancy

PO Box 431 Kenmore Qld 4069

Contact Us

Contact our team today for a confidential discussion on how we can deliver improved project processes.