Coordinator Asset Management

Hume City Council is seeking an organised and efficient Coordinator to lead their Asset Management Team. This role involves overseeing all strategic asset management activities and projects, including maturing the Council’s asset management capability, developing policies and standards, and managing a team of professionals. Key responsibilities include maintaining accurate asset records using specialised software, coordinating with departments, ensuring compliance with plans like the Road Management Plan, and collaborating with finance teams for asset valuation. The successful candidate will advocate for asset management and report on strategy implementation.

Must Have

• Lead Asset Management Team
• Oversee strategic asset management projects
• Develop asset management policies and standards
• Manage asset management professionals
• Maintain accurate asset records using specialised software
• Ensure compliance with asset management plans and regulations
• Collaborate with finance for asset valuation
• Possess sound knowledge of drainage and transport infrastructure
• Experience in asset auditing and long-term works program development
• Strong project management skills
• Ability to manage time and workloads effectively
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Tertiary qualification in civil engineering or asset management
• Proven experience in infrastructure asset management

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive salary package
• Professional development opportunities
• Supportive work environment
• Inclusive and collaborative work environment
• Child safe organisation
• Equal opportunity employer

Job Description

• Permanent, Full Time
• $126,861.28 per annum plus Superannuation & vehicle allowance.
• Join the Assets team

We are seeking an organised and efficient Coordinator to lead our Asset Management Team. In this role, you will be responsible for all activities and projects that relate to strategic asset management across the organisation, including:

What you’ll be doing:

• Responsible for maturing Council’s asset management capability in line with industry best practice using established standards, frameworks, and tools. They manage a team of asset management professionals who support the Manager Assets in providing leadership and advice across the organisation’s significant asset base, including building, drainage, open space, and transport infrastructure.
• Developing Council’s asset management policies, practices and standards, and the ongoing review and refinement of asset replacement and investment plans, sustainment planning, and the long-term strategic management of assets within the organisation.
• Maintain accurate records of Council's assets using specialised asset management software.
• Coordinate with other departments to track new asset creation, changes, and disposals.
• Being an advocate for asset management with staff, senior management, Council, and the wider community.
• Develop, maintain, and review Council's asset management policy, strategy, plans and procedures, including the legislated Asset Plan and Road Management Plan.
• Collaborate with finance teams to ensure proper asset valuation and depreciation.
• Support the creation and maintenance of asset registers.
• Ensure compliance with the Road Management Plan with respect to road and footpath inspections.
• Ensure compliance with relevant regulations and industry standards.
• Reporting on implementation of the Asset Management Strategy and asset management plans.

The skills and experience you’ll bring to the role:

• Demonstrated sound knowledge relating to drainage and transport infrastructure construction and maintenance techniques.
• Demonstrated ability in undertaking asset audits.
• Demonstrated knowledge and ability in developing long term works programs for, buildings, drainage.
• Demonstrated ability to plan work ahead, set priorities, manage individual time and workloads within the resources available and required timelines, despite conflicting pressures and with little direction.
• Strong understanding of asset management theory and implementation strategies.
• Demonstrated project management skills, including the ability to lead and manage projects, programs, people, and resources to achieve a broad range of outcomes, within broad parameters and with little direction and to meet deadlines and budgets.
• Demonstrated ability to liaise, consult, negotiate, persuade, and collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders, including with counterparts in other organisations, to discuss specialist matters and with other employees in the Council to resolve cross Council issues.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to prepare reports, briefings, submissions and relevant correspondence within Council and the ability to communicate clearly, using approaches suitable to the audience, to achieve maximum impact.

Required Certifications & Qualifications

• Tertiary qualifications in civil engineering or a similarly related asset management discipline and/or proven experience in asset management with respect to infrastructure assets.

Why Hume City Council?

A leader in local government, we’re committed to creating an an inclusive and collaborative work environment that is guided by our values:

We’re better, every day: We give things a go and value progress over perfection. We have permission to go for it and are expected to reflect and learn.

We’re in it together: At Hume, everyone matters. We Welcome and include all. Respect and safety are expected.

We show up: We empower and trust others and own our work. We rise to the challenges and are expected to do what we say we will.

All for Hume: We strive to achieve our best for the Hume Community. We are proud and passionate about working towards better outcomes and expect they are at the centre of everything we do.

We offer a competitive salary package, professional development opportunities, and a supportive work environment.

A child safe organisation and an equal opportunity employer. Council encourages people of all ages, people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTIQA+ people and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply.

All candidates will be required to undertake background and probity checks including Reference Checks, Working with Children Check, and a Criminal Record Check.