Technical Asset Manager

**Company Description**
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Octopus Australia team in our Sydney or Melbourne office. As a valued member of the Assets team, you'd play a pivotal role in achieving our mission to harness capital and expertise to accelerate the energy transition.

**About Octopus Group**

**Octopus Investments Australia**

Octopus Australia is a renewable energy fund manager and developer harnessing capital and expertise to accelerate the energy transition, with an operating and development portfolio of over $11bn across wind, solar and battery storage. Octopus Australia is more than just an investment manager, we take a data and technology driven approach to constructing an energy portfolio designed for Australia's clean energy future.

Our team of over 50 highly skilled professionals across Melbourne and Sydney, have a unique blend of skills and expertise covering all facets of the renewable energy industry. This allows us to manage projects across their entire lifecycle and create an integrated portfolio of renewable energy and storage assets.

**Essential Job Functions**

The role is focused on technical asset management of our renewable assets including solar, wind and storage. The role will at times become ‘hands on’ in solving issues, and at other times require technical and contract oversight of service providers. Applicants must be confident and comfortable in this role and effective at delegating and managing the underlying technical activities carried out by third parties.

**Key job functions include**:

- ** Compliance**: Promote a culture of compliance focused on health, safety, and environment. Oversee all compliance activities at operational assets.
- ** Community Engagement**:Work with the community and stakeholder engagement manager to develop and implement the community engagement strategy and initiatives.
- ** Technical**: Manage all technical aspects of site performance through 3rd party Asset Managers or directly as required.
- ** Problem solving**: Strong problem-solving capabilities to work through operational asset performance issues and bring multiple stakeholders together to resolve with a sense of urgency.
- ** Relationships**: Proactively build strong relationships with external stakeholders, regulatory bodies (i.e. AEMO) and Asset Managers.
- ** Contract Management**: Ensure timely delivery of services under Asset Management, O&M and 3rd party contracts. Work within the Assets team to set-up performance metrics for all contracts.
- ** Procurement**: Prepare and run tender processes for all 3rd party contracts as required.
- ** Opex Budgets**: Support the finance function and 3rd party asset manages to prepare and manage yearly Opex budgets including reporting and insights.
- ** Develop**: Create and implement bespoke technical asset performance opportunities to maximise site performance and revenue. Including tracking and reporting with deep insights
- ** Reporting**: Prepare monthly asset and quarterly board reports for the leadership team in conjunction with external asset managers and finance function
- ** Data**: Work with all stakeholders to implement a data driven approach to decision making to ensure asset deliver best in class performance.

**Qualifications** Qualifications, skills, and experience required**:

- Eligibility to work in Australia - visa sponsorship is not offered.
- ** Contract and project management skills** which demonstrate that you are highly organised, diligent, and confident with complex contract environments.
- Understanding of **Health, Safety and Environmental** practices, legislations, and requirements.
- Knowledge of **Compliance **requirements across a NEM operating asset.
- Can build strong relationships with key project partners.
- Exceptional **written and verbal communication skills**. The ability to communicate effectively and ensure your communication strategy covers the different stakeholders.

**Additional Information** What we offer**
- A competitive salary package including bonus and medical insurance benefits
- ✈️ Extra Annual Leave entitlement
- Flexible working
- Ongoing learning and career development opportunities

Octopus has built an exciting and inclusive high-performance culture where employees feel empowered. We also understand the value of diversity, and we are dedicated to creating an inclusive workplace environment. We would welcome people of all backgrounds to apply.

**Our Values**

At Octopus we don’t just focus on what we do but also how we do it. Our culture is critical to our success and is built around three principles that underpin how we pursue our goals:

- ** Be Bold **- We like people who make decisions quickly and are OK changing their mind if it turns out there’s a better way of doing things.
- ** Be Helpful **- We like People who behave like it always day one and who remember without our customers there is no business.
- ** Be Straightforward** - We like people who have op