Asset Performance Lead

|Industrial & Manufacturing - Maintenance Planning & Reliability|Canterbury
  • Christchurch based – with seasonal time at Scott Base
  • Ownership of asset management and maintenance
  • Be part of a legacy project in an iconic NZ institution

About the role
Antarctica New Zealand supports world-class science and environmental protection in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Scott Base is our home in Antarctica that enables our goals, and we have commenced a four-year project for the redevelopment of the Base.
  
Antarctica NZ is establishing a new roles to meet the demands of the redevelopment. This is one of them. As Asset Performance Lead, you’ll be a key role within the Antarctic Infrastructure team, providing the asset information, systems administration and performance reporting that underpin sound asset strategy, planning and lifecycle decisions across the portfolio. You’ll report to the Manager, Asset Strategy and Planning.
  
What you’ll do

  • Own and maintain the asset register, hierarchy, and condition and criticality data as the single source of truth for Antarctic Infrastructure
  • Administer and champion the asset management system as the system of record
  • Produce levels of service and asset performance reporting to support the Asset Management Plan and ten-year forecast
  • Support the asset-management maturity programme, working towards core maturity by March 2028
  • Maintain the consolidated compliance, assurance and statutory maintenance schedule, tracking due dates and evidence and escalating exceptions
  • Manage engineering drawings, technical documentation and records
  • Train Christchurch and Scott Base users, including the maintenance crew, in consistent use of the system
  • Specify, load and validate asset, commissioning and operation and maintenance data from the Scott Base Redevelopment as new infrastructure is handed over
  • Travel periodically to Scott Base for data capture, training and commissioning handover, with medical clearance required

About you
You’re a systems-minded asset information specialist who brings discipline to data. You can build order where condition and performance data isn’t yet held in a usable form, and you influence people across teams without formal authority over them. You stay steady when priorities shift, confront issues and see them through, and build strong relationships with technical and operational colleagues.
  
Essential experience

  • A trade or tertiary qualification in asset management, information management, engineering or a related field, or demonstrably equivalent experience
  • At least three years’ experience administering and championing a CMMS or asset management system, ideally in an infrastructure or utilities environment
  • Experience maintaining asset registers, hierarchies, and condition and criticality data
  • Experience producing levels of service and asset performance reporting
  • Experience developing and delivering system training for a range of end users
  • Understanding of engineering drawing and records management practices
  • Excellent written and verbal communication and a high degree of computer literacy (Word, Excel, asset management systems)
  • Ability to obtain medical clearance for travel to Antarctica

 Desirable

  • A relevant asset management qualification (e.g. IPWEA or IAM)
  • Familiarity with compliance and statutory maintenance regimes (e.g. BWoF, HSNO, electrical, water, waste, asbestos)
  • Operational experience in remote and challenging environments

Why Antarctica New Zealand?
These are career-defining opportunities to work with an organisation at a pivotal point in the 70-year history of Scott Base.
  
Apply now
For more information please contact Andrew Hickey or Luke Atkinson on 04 472 6558 or apply to this vacancy now.