Asset Manager

Full-time, permanent role
- (South Wharf CBD location) with flexible work options available
- Employer of Choice winner four years in a row

Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) is the home of unconventional. At MCEC we do things a little differently. We bring fresh ideas and imagination to every event. We happily turn concepts on their head to make each experience momentous.

We welcome events of all shapes and sizes, from board meetings and small celebrations to conventions, gala dinners, exhibitions, and concerts. Our doors are open for events and moments that connect us - in person, virtual or hybrid, and everything in between.

Our city is our inspiration, located in the vibrant South Wharf precinct, just a stroll along the Yarra River. Melbourne is on show at MCEC - in architecture and design, food and hospitality, AV technology, Customer Service, location, and views.

**About the role**

We have an exciting opportunity for an Asset Manager to join MCEC. You will implement, manage, and deliver the asset strategy and plans ensuring the overall performance of operating activities is continuously improved and supporting core business activities.

You will provide rigour and accountability to the various stages of the asset portfolio’s lifecycle including business cases, funding approvals, acquisition, operation, disposals, and reporting to provide comfort that assets are being managed effectively.

**Key Accountabilities**
- Influence and support the formulation of Capital Works business cases by the departments ensuring they are fully scoped with well-researched options.
- Ensure that no events or operations are disrupted during capital works implementation.
- Ensure activities are aligned and adhere to the Asset Management Accountability Framework and manage the annual reporting cycle.
- Monitor the asset management components of the PPP arrangement, liaising with partners and other key stakeholders.

**Qualifications, knowledge, and Experience**

**Essential**
- Degree relevant to the disciplines of asset management and/or project management
- Sound conceptual and analytical skills together with an ability to provide high quality reports
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Ability to liaise and communicate effectively with all stakeholders
- Advanced computer literacy with demonstrated knowledge of Microsoft office suite programs
- Experience with coordinating projects and providing robustness around scope, budget and delivery

**Desirable**
- Experience with asset information systems
- Experience with Ungerboeck

**Working at MCEC**

At MCEC we encourage ideas and imagination and support our people to be inspirational. Whatever your role, we'll foster the development of skills, insights, and leadership. You'll be working in a Melbourne icon, with a welcoming and supportive team. And there are many other benefits - 14 weeks paid parental leave; flexible work options; purchased leave; employee discounts; onsite restaurants, cafes, and parking; and South Wharf and the city at our doorstep. We are diverse, inclusive, and collaborative.

Built on the banks of the Birrarung (Yarra River), Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Narrm, the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present, and to Elders of all First Nations communities that visit MCEC.

We recognise the significance of the Birrarung to Traditional Owners as a life source and a meeting place and seek to honour a 40,000 year tradition of building community and exchanging ideas on these lands.