Associate Director

**We are Network Rail Consulting (NRC)**

NRC is the international consultancy arm of Network Rail, the owner of Britain’s railway, one of the largest rail operations in the world.

NRC has been active in the Australian, the Middle East and North American markets since 2013. We have built a reputation for the successful delivery of consultancy assignments across both government, and private sectors, including passenger and freight owners and operators. Our ambition is to always achieve consistently excellent levels of client satisfaction.

Our advice covers the full range of the project life cycle, from concept, project development and delivery through to operations and maintenance.

Our work is driven by our values**:passion, agility, collaboration, impartiality.**

In Australia, Network Rail Consulting has a growing team of rail industry specialists permanently based in New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland. Whilst our unique selling point is access to Network Rail’s expertise in the UK, we are committed to developing our local workforce through a structured training and development program using Network Rail’s award-winning training capability. This approach ensures that NRC continues to provide our clients with leading edge technical and management advice delivered by a blend of local and British experts.

**We offer our people great benefits such as**:

- Competitive market rate salaries
- A performance-related pay incentive scheme
- Life Insurance and Total Permanent Disability cover
- Generous annual leave entitlement (25 days per annum)
- Novated car leasing arrangements
- Genuine career development prospects, including the potential to work interstate and overseas
- Further training, learning and development opportunities
- Access to Employee Discount Program via Reward Gateway

NRC supports flexible working practices, and we understand that life balance is an important part of our employees' lives. We offer a wide range of flexible work/life balance options such as hybrid (home/office) working, flexible working hours where appropriate and generous leave entitlements.

**About the opportunity**:
Building on our continued success and growth, we are currently hiring for an experienced professional to join our team as an Associate Director - Asset Management & Maintenance based in Sydney.

The key focus areas for the Asset Management & Maintenance service line includes the following:

- Development of Asset Management & Maintenance strategies.
- Asset management & maintenance reviews and assessments.
- Enterprise asset management & maintenance development.
- Standards review and development.
- Application of intelligent asset management systems, technology and solutions.
- Infrastructure reliability assessments and advice.
- Route asset management planning and development.
- Asset audits, due diligence assessments and assurance reviews.

You will be involved in leading asset management & maintenance teams, providing people leadership and service line capability to deliver asset solutions that meet the needs of our client organisations. You will have the opportunity to act as a project manager on consultancy contracts and manage, or contribute to the completion of consultancy contracts, delivering projects on time and to budget.

**Experience & Qualifications**:
Essential:

- Minimum of 10+ years’ experience in the Rail industry.
- Subject Matter Expertise in the area of Track Infrastructure.
- Proven track record delivering asset management & maintenance initiatives/solutions.
- Proven ability to translate client needs into working solutions.
- Developed Report Writing ability.
- Well-developed skills in problem solving and written/verbal communication, collaborative working and time/priority management.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to sustain relationships with customers, identify and develop opportunities and manage these through to new work.
- Experience using Enterprise Asset Management Systems (such as Ellipse, Maximo, SAP) preferably within the rail sector.

Desirable:

- Membership of relevant professional body.
- Formal Asset Management Qualification.
- Understanding of Australian market and client relationships in Transport/Rail sector.

**Pre-Employment Checks**

**Sound interesting?