Asset Class Strategy Specialist

Business Unit:
**Asset Lifecycle Planning**
- Function:
**Network Devt, Assets & Maintenance (NDA&M)**
- Job Code:
**704748**

**Asset Class Strategy Specialist**
- Lead strategy development and integration of comprehensive OCS Asset Strategies
- Work closely with stakeholders to enhance and implement robust asset management plans.
- Engage in a 3-year fixed-term role, delivering strategic insights and impactful presentations.

V/Line’s purpose is to connect Victorians through safe, reliable, and accessible transport. We believe in giving all Victorians opportunities through travel and transport - connecting them to jobs, education, family and friends, services, tourism and trade

Our organisation is experiencing significant growth and we’re delivering more services, more trains, cheaper fares, and huge projects. With more than 3700 weekly train and coach services, an expansive freight network and unprecedented rail investment, millions of Victorians depend on us to deliver. You could be one of our 3100 committed team members who are up to the challenge.

Join V/Line for an exhilarating **3-year** adventure as an Asset Class Strategy Specialist in Operational Control Systems (OCS) within our dynamic Network Development, Asset & Maintenance (NDAM) function. This role is your gateway to leading the strategic development and seamless integration of OCS asset class strategies into our core business processes.

**About the role**

As V/Line’s Asset Class Strategy Specialist, you will be the forefront of innovation, collaborating with key stakeholders to drive the establishment and enhancement of robust asset management plans and lifecycle models. Your expertise will be instrumental in managing a diverse array of OCS assets, including Train Control Systems, Operational Communication Systems, and more, ensuring their sustainable and efficient operation throughout their lifecycle.

Representing the OCS Program Manager, you will provide strategic advice in various governance forums, coordinate SLA reporting, and deliver impactful briefings and presentations. You will also be crucial in developing business cases to justify funding for projects, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.

**Key accountabilities include**:

- **Strategic Asset Management**: Lead the development and integration of OCS asset strategies.
- **Stakeholder Engagement**: Collaborate with stakeholders for successful strategy implementation.
- **Lifecycle Strategy**: Develop and validate lifecycle model for OCS assets.
- **AWP Leadership**: Manage OCS components in AWP submissions.
- **SME Contributions**: Provide expertise for Corridor Strategies and MPM work bank.
- **Obsolescence Management**: Advise on obsolete technologies and manage updates.
- **ISO50001 Compliance**: Participate in assessments and audits for energy management.
- **Data Management**: Develop SADMs and improve asset data for lifecycle modellings.
- **System Optimisation**: Ensure systems support functional activities effectively.
- **Model Development**: Gather data, define modelling parameters, and run simulations.
- **Investment Strategy**: Develop and deliver asset investment strategies on time.

**Project Management**: Oversee projects from inception to completion, ensuring efficiency and excellence.
- **Business Case Development**:Write comprehensive business cases to justify funding for projects.

**About you**
- A deep comprehension of the ISO 55001 framework, ensuring alignment with international asset management protocols.
- The capacity to articulate ideas clearly and effectively in both oral and written forms.
- Demonstrated expertise in orchestrating projects from inception to completion, with a focus on efficiency and excellence.
- Extensive experience in writing business cases to justify funding for projects.
- The ability to craft detailed strategies that pave the way for long-term achievements.
- A keen ability to dissect complex information and extract actionable insights.
- Strong skills in identifying issues swiftly and implement effective solutions.
- Technical knowledge of critical systems such as SCADA, virtualisation and CCTV.
- Demonstrated alignment to V/Line’s values of responsiveness, integrity, impartiality, accountability, respect, leadership and human rights.

**Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant engineering discipline and/or OCMS Asset Management

**Desirable**
- TCP/IP/data/radio networks, telephony and Cyber Security and other IT hardware/software preferred.
- Experience in rail maintenance.
- Experience in asset lifecycle modelling.

**A full position description will be made available to interviewees.**

If your skills or experience don’t exactly match our listed requirements, we still encourage you to apply. We value diverse perspectives and believe in the potential for growth and development.

**Why V/Line**

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