Asset Management Technical Officer

Executive Level 1

Salary: $115,443-125,832, plus an additional 15.4% superannuation

Position overview

The Bureau's observing network assets portfolio is distributed across 12,500 sites covering all states and territories of Australia and other jurisdictions. Observing network assets include, but are not limited to, Radars, Automatic Weather Stations, Tsunami Boys, Rain Gauges and other measuring apparatus. The Asset Management Technical Officer will assist with the establishment and development of the Bureau's new asset management capability to ensure the efficient and effective lifecycle management of the Bureau's observing network asset portfolio.

With their experience using and supporting Maximo or similar Enterprise Asset Management systems, the Asset Management Technical Officer will provide support and assistance to the broader asset management and operational teams. This assistance will extend to business and technical support, report and other configuration activities, maintenance of data integrity and participation in system uplift projects.

A key measure of success will be the organisational adoption of an asset management culture involving the uptake and utilisation of the Enterprise Asset Management system, adherence to relevant policies and plans and the establishment of an environment that fosters collaboration and communication. The Asset Management Technical Officer will assist in this culture shift through the provision of guidance and training support to the wider organisation, the promotion of the asset management framework and strong collaboration with SMEs and asset owners.

Using their asset management experience and commercial acumen, the Asset Management Technical Officer will be called upon to assist in the annual strategic planning cycle. This will involve provision of data and insight analysis for asset maintenance programs and budget setting.

Whilst the initial focus of this position will be the Bureau's observing network assets portfolio, the role may be expanded in future to include a diverse and significant asset base, including property and facilities, ICT, software and intangible assets such as IP and models.

Role responsibilities

The responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to:

User Support

1. Communicate and provide solutions to system users on both technical and operational support matters.
2. Identify areas for improvement for usability and system performance and translate business needs into technical requirements.
3. Assist with the development of Asset Management training collateral in collaboration with the Bureau's Training Centre.
4. Support the adoption of an Asset Management culture through process reinforcement and ongoing guidance to individual users and user groups.

Stakeholder Communication

1. Create relevant reports for asset performance and data integrity. using EAMS, other data sources, and reporting tools (e.g. PowerBI) as appropriate.
2. Coordination of end-to-end processes including the integration and / or maintenance of other related systems.
3. Provision of advice and recommended actions to the National Asset Manager
4. Update and maintain system documentation and user manuals.
5. Liaising with stakeholders to achieve Asset Management team outcomes.

Maintenance and Data Integrity

1. Creation and maintenance of asset hierarchies.
2. Review technical information and asset configuration to build or verify asset structures.
3. Defining and adhering to data standards in relation to data capture and data management.
4. Confirm equipment specification and identification information through field validation.
5. Update Location records to reflect current Location operating status.

Create and maintain asset records:

• Review vendor / project information to verify asset records.
• Update asset records to reflect asset moves and configuration changes.
• Create and maintain Job Plans.

1. Liaise with operational areas to consolidate and optimise Job Plans.
2. Establish and communicate the budget impact for new or changed Job Plans.
3. Update Master Data in EAMS, MDM and legacy systems as appropriate.

Selection criteria

• The Bureau encourages applications from all suitably qualified candidates. Applications will be considered based on alignment with selection criteria, which have been matched to the APS work level standards and Integrated Leadership System (ILS) for Executive Level 1 positions.

Highly Desirable

Qualifications:

• A tertiary qualification from an Australian educational institution, or a comparable overseas qualification, which is relevant to the duties;

Capabilities and Behaviours:

Skills and experience

• Experience administering, and supporting for an Enterprise Asset Management System – IBM Maximo
• Familiar with Maximo or other software enhancement and development processes and testing requirement
• Experience in writing SQL queries to extract data from Maximo DB or other DBs
• An analytical mindset, relational data analysis experience and an understanding of the integrity of systems and data
• An awareness of Asset Management concepts and standards and the ability to apply this knowledge to system configuration and maintenance processes
• High attention to detail

Achieves results

• In conjunction with management, establishes targets and delivers on intended results and outcomes
• Provides excellent service through provision of guidance and promotion of good practice
• Develops and supports innovative solutions

Communication

• Demonstrates excellent communication skills with internal and external stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to convey technical material and concepts in a way that is understood by business and technical audiences alike
• Desirable
• An appreciation of the importance of asset management in the Bureau's (or similar organisation) context and how that relates to personal actions and activity
• Effective identification of management asset risks
• Project scoping and development activities
• Provide input to monthly, quarterly and annual capital reporting processes
• Promote collaboration by identifying opportunities to work with other teams/units to solve issues and develop better processes and approaches to work
• Experience with reporting tools such as PowerBI

Merit pool

The selection process will establish a merit pool that may be used to fill similar positions within 18 months.

How to apply

Applications can be lodged through the Bureau of Meteorology Careers.

Your application will consist of resume, contact details for two referees and an ‘800-word pitch’ that considers:

• position overview
• job responsibilities
• selection criteria