Associate Director - Asset Management & Maintenance

About us:

Network Rail Consulting (NRC) is the international consultancy arm of Network Rail, the owner of Britain’s railway. We have been active in the Australian, the Middle East and North American markets since 2013 and have successfully delivered more than 150 consultancy contracts for government, public and privately owned organisations, and for passenger and freight owners and operators, achieving consistently excellent levels of client satisfaction.

Our advice covers the full range of the project life cycle, from concept, project development and delivery through to operations and maintenance.

In Australia, Network Rail Consulting has a growing team of rail industry specialists permanently based in New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland. Whilst our unique selling point is access to Network Rail’s expertise in the UK, we are committed to developing our local workforce through a structured training and development program using Network Rail’s award-winning training capability. This will ensure that we continue to provide our clients with leading edge technical and management advise delivered by a blend of local and British experts.

Our work is driven by our values: passion, agility, collaboration, impartiality.

We offer our people great benefits such as:

• Competitive market rate salaries
• A performance-related pay incentive scheme
• Life Insurance and Total Permanent Disability cover
• Generous annual leave entitlement (25 days per annum)
• Novated car leasing arrangements
• Genuine career development prospects
• Further training, learning and development opportunities
• Access to Employee Discount Program via Reward Gateway

NRC supports flexible working practices, and we understand that life balance is an important part of our employees' lives. We offer a wide range of flexible work/life balance options such as working from home, flexible working hours where appropriate and generous leave entitlements.

About the opportunity:

Building on our continued success and growth, we are currently hiring an Asset Management professional with a broad range of experience that includes High-Speed Rail and more broadly rail infrastructure or track to join our team as an Associate Director – Asset Management & Maintenance based in Sydney.

The successful candidate will play a lead role in the development and delivery of Asset Management & Maintenance projects, providing expert advice across multi-disciplinary projects. As a subject matter expert, you will support the State Managers in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria and the Director Asset Management & Maintenance with key client accounts, selling the Asset Management & Maintenance service line offerings.

The key focus areas for the Asset Management & Maintenance service line includes the following:

• Development of Asset Management & Maintenance strategies.
• Route asset management planning and development.
• Asset management & maintenance reviews and assessments.
• Enterprise asset management & maintenance development.
• Standards review and development.
• Application of intelligent asset management systems, technology and solutions.
• Infrastructure reliability assessments and advice.
• Asset audits, due diligence assessments and assurance reviews

You will be involved in leading asset management & maintenance teams, providing people leadership and service line capability to deliver asset solutions that meet the needs of our client organisations. You will have the opportunity to act as a project manager on consultancy contracts and manage, or contribute to the completion of consultancy contracts, delivering projects on time and to budget.

Experience & Qualifications:

Essential:

• Qualified to at least a degree level or equivalent in subject area.
• Significant demonstrated experience in the Rail Industry.
• Proven track record delivering asset management & maintenance initiatives/solutions in a rail environment, including High-Speed Rail.
• Subject Matter Expertise in the area of rail infrastructure or systems.
• Proven ability to translate client needs into working solutions.
• Developed report writing ability.
• Well-developed skills in problem solving and written/verbal communication, collaborative working and time/priority management.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to sustain relationships with customers, identify and develop opportunities and manage these through to new work.
• Experience using Enterprise Asset Management Systems (such as Ellipse, Maximo, SAP) preferably within the rail sector.

Desirable:

• Membership of relevant professional body.
• Formal Asset Management Qualification.
• Understanding of Australian market and client relationships in Transport/Rail sector.

Pre-Employment Checks

The successful candidate will be required to undergo pre-employment checks which include a national criminal history check and reference checks.

Sound interesting?

Apply today and our Talent Acquisition team will review your application in due course.

NRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of age, race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, or veteran status. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are encouraged to apply!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation!