Asset Management Engineer

Location flexible: Dunedin, Alexandra or Queenstown

• Address complex engineering challenges with high community impact
• Drive robust infrastructure investment decision-making
• Returning to NZ? Enjoy the outdoors lifestyle & stunning environment of Otago!

If you’re looking for job interest and challenge and would enjoy the outdoors lifestyle that goes hand-in-hand with the Otago environment of rugged coastlines, spectacular mountains, rivers and alpine lakes, this position could be right for you.

Otago Regional Council (ORC) manages the land, air and water resources, and provides flood and natural hazard protection and response on behalf of communities across Central Otago, Clutha, Waitaki, Queenstown Lakes and Dunedin.  Climate change impacts, pressure on critical infrastructure, and Otago’s complex river and coastal systems creates a challenging environment that requires a forward-thinking approach.  That’s where you come in.

The Challenge:

• Lead the development and implementation of ORC’s asset management plans and framework for flood and coastal protection, river control and land drainage schemes.
• Consider whole of infrastructure implications and lifecycle costs and make recommendations on investment priorities (ie., investment in operational, maintenance and renewal programmes).
• Monitor, analyse and report on the achievement of levels of service and the condition and performance of scheme assets.
• Drive best practice asset management refining ORC’s asset management policies, tools and systems.
• Form collaborative working relationships within Council, and with Territorial Authorities and other Regional Councils, contractors, consultants, and regulatory bodies.

Your Skills:

• A qualification in Civil Engineering, Asset Management or a related field and 10+ years’ of professional engineering &/or infrastructure management experience.
• Prior experience in asset management planning including the development and use of best practice asset management systems.
• Ideally have some experience in flood protection, coastal protection, land drainage, or river control schemes, although this is not essential.
• A tactful, diplomatic, coaching style of leadership, strong customer focus, and high professional standards and initiative.

To support its diverse and capable team, ORC is pleased to offer enhanced benefits such as flexible work opportunities, an annual wellbeing programme, competitive remuneration packages, and development opportunities for high performers. We know it’s the full package that counts!

Click Apply Now or to find out more, contact Lisa Hulley on 027 688 8831 in confidence.

Applications Close Sunday 27 February 2022.

Otago Regional Council has engaged Peak Recruitment to manage the recruitment of this position.  Please direct all enquiries and applications to Peak Recruitment.

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