Locomotive Asset Management Principal

**Work options**: Flexible

Sydney, Newcastle, Melbourne or Brisbane location
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Full Time Permanent Opportunity**:

- ** Location open to Brisbane, Newcastle, Sydney & Melbourne**

**About the Role**

Are you passionate about safety leadership and possess expertise in asset management? Are you experienced in developing and implementing major periodic maintenance programs? We have an exciting opportunity for a Locomotive Asset Management Principle to join Pacific National, helping deliver what matters

At Pacific National, we pride ourselves on delivering exceptional services while prioritizing safety and efficiency. We operate an extensive fleet of locomotives, and we are dedicated to optimizing their performance and ensuring their longevity through effective asset management.

As the Locomotive Asset Management Principle, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing the safety, performance, and lifespan of our locomotive assets. You will be responsible for providing safety leadership, developing asset management plans, and implementing major periodic maintenance programs.

**Key responsibilities will include but not limited to**:

- Safety Leadership: Accountability for safety focus and exceeding safety targets both internally and with external suppliers
- Develop long term Strategic Asset Management strategies for PN Rollingstock assets, coordinating input from Business Units (BUs).
- Identify whole of life (WOL) costs (OPEX and CAPEX) remaining asset classes considering any required upgrade programs to sustain through to end of life whilst considering performance impacts and regulatory compliance.
- Develop planning and costing scenarios for each asset class considering the potential cost benefits and decisions required to determine the optimal timing of investment in either upgrade programs or asset replacement programs with the intent to deliver long-term benefit to PN and its customers.
- Identify optimal timing of upgrades, renewals and fleet retirement / disposal of these assets based on performance, risk and/or part supply security to maintain PN levels of service.
- Ensure programs of work are defined and aligned to asset life cycle forecasts as well as business operational needs
- Manage project schedule to ensure milestones and deadlines are successfully achieved including hand back in alignment with business needs
- Validate completion and quality of works

**About you**

You will be armed with strong stakeholder management abilities, including negotiations, facilitation, and influencing to bring unity and alignment to our initiatives. You will harness the ability to drive the development of business cases through sophisticated scenario modelling unlocking strategic insight and delivering recommendations that support business initiatives.

**In addition**:

- 10+ Years in a Senior Asset Management Role.
- Experience within the rail, transport and/or heavy industry.
- Demonstrable experience in Asset Lifecycle Management.
- Extensive experience in delivering projects in complex business and contract models
- Demonstrable experience working within defined timeframes and managing capital budgets
- Demonstrable experience in data systems and analytical review
- Relevant Tertiary Qualifications i.e. Asset Management, Engineering
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the proven ability to build and maintain effective relationships and communicate with a diverse range of people internally and externally.
- Proven technical expertise in at least one of the functional disciplines - economics, railway engineering, construction, building, asset management, transport planning or commerce.

**The benefits**

We value diversity, inclusion, collaboration, and the contribution of each of our employees. Working for us will enable you to take ownership of your career and gain access to the following benefits:

- Opportunities for growth and career development
- Access to mentoring programs
- 12 weeks paid parental leave for primary carer at full pay following 12 months of service
- Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
- Provision of Salary Continuance Insurance
- Novated leasing and discounts on selected health insurance funds, travel, gyms, retail brands, vehicles and more.

**About us**

Pacific National (PN) is the largest provider of diversified rail freight services in Australia with over 12,000 wagon assets across four Business Units. We haul a variety of freight including coal, intermodal containers, steel, and a range of bulk commodities and materials that keep the region’s economy, businesses and households running. We operate nationally with approximately 3,500 staff in over 90+ sites across Australia.

Join us as we continue to transform our business and shape the rail freight industry, to achieve our vision of becoming Australia’s recognised leader for safe, innovative and sustainable rail freight solutions.

We are seeking applicants who share our values: safety, integrity, account