Title:  Asset Management Strategy Lead

• • Asset Management Strategy > Ensure Compliance > Drive Innovation
  • Make a real difference and help shape our customer’s energy future.
  • Stakeholder Management > Purposeful Work > Real People

When you choose AusNet, you’ll join genuine people working together, making Real. Progress.

At AusNet, we’re the link between renewable energy sources and local communities, playing a key role in the clean energy transition and providing essential energy to every Victorian family.

Help us lead the way, while enriching your career with real people who encourage you to bring your best and make a real impact – for your career, our communities, and Australia’s cleaner energy future.

Purposeful work with genuinely good people. That’s refreshing.

Join us in the driver’s seat as an Asset Management Strategy Lead, providing expertise in delivering asset management strategies and price resets.

Our Asset Management Team optimise the cost, risk and performance of our assets to deliver resilient, reliable and safe energy supply to our customers.

This is your chance to work on exciting challenges that will enhance your career while making a real impact ensuring compliance and strategic asset management for the network.

With a 3/2 Hybrid split (3 days in the office, 2 days’ work from home), this role is based in Southbank and is part of the Asset Management team. For candidates interested in moving for this role from states outside of Victoria in Australia, we would be delighted to offer relocation assistance for this role.

This role will deliver real outcomes, including but not limited to:

• Support complex work activities, including price resets such as Electricity Distribution Price Resets (EDPR), Transmission Revenue Resets (TRR) and Gas Access Arrangement Review (GAAR), annual replacement and maintenance programs, and risk-based maintenance strategies
• Define criteria for asset risk models (e. g. likelihood and consequence of failure, monetisation of risks…) leveraging expertise and understanding within AusNet
• Lead the implementation and maintenance of asset risk management and decision optimisation solutions across all AusNet networks
• Lead economic justification of the replacement programs across AusNet’s asset base.
• Ensure overall Asset Management Compliance through monitoring of Rules and Regulations changes, evaluating impact on the business and initiating actions to ensure full compliance.
• Own process, specification and standards improvement initiatives, and develop new methods of practice.
• Translate complex business requirements, evaluating options with recommendations that offer comprehensive solutions to achieve strategic business plans/options.
• Drive consistency and provide guidance to the business on risk management and reliability engineering concepts including, Weibull analysis, FMECA, RCM, Health Indices, degradation modelling, economic justification, risk mitigation
• Attend audits and respond to queries from internal and external stakeholders.
• Mentor less experienced engineers.

You don’t need to check every box; however, we are looking for a good combination of:

• Degree qualified in electrical engineering.
• Considerable, in-depth electrical engineering/asset management experience.
• Regulatory submissions experience.
• Utility, energy, and/or asset management experience – highly desirable.
• Extensive experience developing Condition Based Risk Management Models (CBRM)
• Detailed understanding of the technical and economic regulations governing electrical networks.
• Project Management and Stakeholder Management skills.
• Previous experience with Decision Analytics solutions (implementing and using)
• Ability to think strategically, solve complex problems, and drive results.

A real place to belong

We celebrate unique voices, refreshing perspectives, and diversity in our team. Engage and connect through our social club, family day, a wide range of events, or by joining one of our Employee Network Groups.

We believe in more than just competitive pay. Here’s what sets us apart:

• Flexibility: whether this is hybrid work, flexible hours, or part-time arrangements, we’ll work with you to help balance work and life.
• Leave: more than typical personal leave and a generous 14 weeks of paid parental leave, with no minimum service.
• Community giving: a paid day to volunteer with our social impact partner, Foodbank, or for a cause that matters to you.
• Perks: we offer all the other perks you’ve come to expect like purchased leave income protection insurance, novated leasing, corporate discounts, private health cover discounts, and more.

As an industry in transformation, we’re excited by the possibilities ahead.

So, if you’re passionate about our purpose and committed to making real progress, bring your energy and join AusNet. Together, we can shape a new way forward.

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