Asset Optimisation Partner

**Asset Optimisation Partner**

**Classification **Level, Central Highlands Water Enterprise Agreement

**Team, unit **Strategic Asset Management and Planning

**Division **Infrastructure Planning and Operations

**Work location **Learmonth Road, Ballarat

**Employment type **Up to Full-time Hours, Permanent

**Position reports to **Technical Specialist - Asset Strategy

**Direct reports **Nil

**Our Values**

Our vision: _Our Water - Our Customers - Healthy Living _

Our mission: _Together, we provide quality water and wastewater services, safely, efficiently and sustainably to _
- communities in the Central Highlands Region _

Our values: _Integrity Teamwork Leadership Care**Organisational Environment**

At Central Highlands Water (CHW) ‘_Safety is Everyone’s Priority_. We are committed to the safety of our people,
customers and the community we serve and have a zero tolerance towards bullying, harassment or violence within
the workplace.

We have an inclusive workplace that embraces diversity and difference. We believe all jobs can be worked flexibly
disability, LGBTIQA+ and people from different cultural backgrounds.

We support and encourage employees’ continuous professional development. Employees are supported in keeping
informed of current industry best practice and are encouraged to take an active personal interest in staying up to
date with professional practices, standards and latest trends.

We believe that everyone has the capability to demonstrate leadership, regardless of their formal level of authority.
We expect all team members to focus their efforts on developing and displaying the leadership behaviours defined
in our Leadership Capability Framework. We have a commitment to enhancing our leadership maturity across the
whole business, through our internal Personal Leadership Program, Learn Lead Grow (LLG), and focussing on
Leading Self, Leading People and Leading the Organisation.

**Purpose**

This position is responsible for delivering and driving development and implementation of key initiatives to optimise
CHW’s asset management practices with a specific focus on water, wastewater, and recycled water networks.

Reporting to the Technical Specialist - Asset Strategy, you will work across the business to implement key
initiatives to enhance CHW’s asset management practices and optimise our comprehensive water and wastewater
networks.

**Key Duties/Responsibilities**

**Asset Management Optimisation**
- Lead key internal stakeholder groups to develop innovative solutions to complex business problems

relating to network assets.
- Determine and recommend optimal solutions to complex business problems.

standards.
- Partner with the ICT & Digital Division to implement workable solutions to IT system related problems.
- Offer thought leadership and a problem-solving mentality regarding effective methods to capture, store

and utilise asset data to drive decision making processes.
- Develop tools and streamline processes to empower operational teams to manage assets in an effective

and efficient manner.

**General**
- Provide ongoing technical leadership and oversight of a complex program of technical projects and

assure alignment of outcomes with broader business priorities.
- Assist with the development of tools, processes for asset management systems in conjunction with

key stakeholders.
- Develop long term sustainable initiatives in line with objectives outlined in Strategy
- Commit to ongoing personal and technical development under the guidance of the Technical

Specialist - Asset Strategy

**. Authority and Accountability**
- Seek efficiencies through implementation of new technologies or alternative approaches where direct

benefits can be achieved.
- Develop and maintain relationships with key customers and stakeholders.
- Develop solutions for complex asset maintenance issues (with Network Asset Operations team, in

response to incidents, failures or corrective issues).
- Assurance and Compliance technical support (Audits, Asset Life Updates etc.).
- Co-ordinate asset condition inspections in line with Asset Management Plans with direct liaison from the

Network Asset Operations team.
- Asset performance assessments of critical network infrastructure.
- At all times, create, maintain, and foster a safe work environment and ensure compliance with the

provisions of the Occupational Health and Safety Act, Regulations and CHW policies and procedures.
- Expected to demonstrate the CHW values of Integrity, Teamwork, Leadership and Care.

**. Judgement and Problem Solving**
- Strong personal judgement to determine and manage day-to-day priorities and delivery methods.
- Exceptional problem-solving skills with the ability to identify and propose workable solutions to systems

and processes.
- Ability to understand asset data requirements in the context of a long-term vision that encapsulates

decision making processes driven by high reliability data.
- Resolution of problems t