Specialist Asset Manager

In Melbourne, water is essential to our way of life.

As caretakers for Melbourne's water cycle, we care for water, life and land throughout Melbourne: both its people and its biodiversity.

Each time you drink from the tap, flush a toilet, run through a backyard sprinkler, or kayak down the Yarra, we're there. Primed and ready, quietly delivering some of the world's cleanest water for over five million residents and wildlife that call Melbourne home, just as we have for over 130 years.

If you value making it count, diving in with curiosity, and doing what's right, you're in the right place.

Are you ready to make a real impact on the safety and sustainability of some of our most vital infrastructure? Join the Service Enablement Headworks Team as a Specialist Asset Manager, where you'll play a central role in shaping the future of dam safety across the region.

Reporting to the Manager Service Enablement Headworks/Principal Dams Engineer, this is far more than just an asset management position, it's a chance to lead innovative projects, build collaborative relationships, and bring modern dam safety management strategies to life. You'll take the lead in developing and implementing processes that ensure our dam safety management framework continues to deliver world-class performance.

Working closely with the Principal Dams Engineer and a range of passionate professionals both inside and outside the organisation, you'll also design and refine short to medium-term programs of work across our dam safety portfolio. Every day offers the chance to solve complex challenges, influence critical decisions, and contribute to the protection of communities and the environment.

If you're looking for a role where your expertise matters and where your ideas will shape the future, this is the opportunity you've been waiting for.

• Provide technical expertise as dam safety subject matter expert in asset management through project delivery and oversight of project intent. Acceptance of new assets through Handover processes, including acceptance of functional requirements and quality.
• Program and lead dam safety and other asset class condition inspections, design reviews, engineering analysis and risk assessments across the water supply and drainage portfolios.
• Develop and review surveillance regimes and respond to, analyse and interpret collected data and physical observations and queries from field staff to determine performance and potential emergency alert levels for dams and other asset classes.
• Monitor and report on compliance with Regulatory and duty of care obligations for dam safety including management of risk profile data, emergency response plans, operations and maintenance and surveillance/performance status.
• Monitor and develop maintenance strategies for assets within the headworks portfolio
• Manage consultants through project investigations, analysis, risk assessments and project development stage including design.
• Investigate and develop business cases for small to medium scale risk reduction, renewals and service improvement projects across the Headworks portfolio to balance risk, service delivery and whole of lifecycle cost

• Tertiary degree in civil or mechanical engineering or similar field
• Active engineering registration in a related discipline is required.
• Extensive experience and knowledge of dam safety management principles.
• Extensive understanding and experience in dam safety management principles and the Regulatory environment in Victoria.
• Experience in managing infrastructure assets.
• Experience and knowledge of good practice in either asset management, project management or asset planning processes, risk assessment and management techniques.
• Strong financial and commercial acumen skills
• Proficiency in the use and application of Asset Management systems (e.g. MAXIMO, Project Online, Microsoft 365, etc.)

At Melbourne Water, we care about water and all life that springs from it.

Our people are fuelled by passion, and with safety at the forefront, we have an unwavering sense of purpose, and are on a mission to protect every Melburnian's way of life, one drop at a time.

We walk the talk when it comes to flexible working – but that's not all. Our culture of purpose, safety, results, and learning permeates everything we do. We're dedicated to doing what's right, and this commitment extends to the meaningful work we do in a supportive and inclusive culture that encourages you to make the most of your talents.

Our long-standing commitment to Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging means that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, LGBTIQ+ individuals, people living with disability, mature age and young jobseekers from all cultures can apply with confidence knowing they are safe, affirmed, and celebrated.

If you're curious, action-orientated, outcomes-focused, and care deeply for public resources, community, and the environment, we'd love to receive an application and learn if you could be a great fit.

Click the 'Apply Now' button below and complete our online application form.

Advertised: 28 Aug 2025 AUS Eastern Standard Time Closing: 18 Sep :55 PM AUS Eastern Standard Time