Asset Lifecycle Manager
Port Taranaki is seeking an experienced Asset Lifecycle Manager to join our team.
The opportunity
This is a senior leadership role responsible for guiding the strategic planning, performance and long-term value of our infrastructure assets.
You will play a critical role in translating asset management strategy into practical investment, maintenance, renewal and operational decisions. Reporting to the GM, Asset Management & Assurance, you will help ensure our infrastructure assets continue to deliver safe, reliable and commercially sustainable outcomes for the business and the region.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead, coach and align teams across engineering, project delivery, and maintenance planning, building strong partnerships and clear accountability for strategic asset outcomes.
- Provide leadership across asset lifecycle planning, asset performance, asset health, reliability improvement and risk-based decision making.
- Develop lifecycle investment plans, renewal strategies and capital priorities that align with business objectives, growth opportunities, financial plans and long-term asset value.
- Integrate engineering, maintenance, operational, commercial and asset information to support informed investment, intervention and whole-of-life cost decisions.
- Strengthen asset information governance, configuration management and engineering data integrity practices to support safe, reliable and commercially sustainable outcomes.
About you
You are an experienced senior asset management professional with a proven ability to balance operational performance, risk, resilience and investment priorities across complex infrastructure portfolios. You bring strong commercial judgement, strategic thinking and the ability to influence decision making at multiple levels of an organisation. You are comfortable operating between long-term planning and practical implementation, ensuring decisions support both operational requirements and broader business objectives.
To be successful in this role you will ideally have:
- Proven people leadership experience, with the ability to lead, coach and influence multidisciplinary teams across engineering, maintenance planning, and project management.
- Significant experience leading asset management, infrastructure planning, lifecycle investment or asset performance functions.
- Strong asset management expertise, including lifecycle planning, asset integrity, reliability, renewal strategies, infrastructure investment planning and risk-based decision making.
- Commercial acumen and analytical capability, including capital planning, business case development, budgeting, investment prioritisation and whole-of-life cost optimisation.
- A relevant tertiary qualification in Asset Management, Engineering, Infrastructure Management, Finance or a related discipline, with ports, infrastructure, utilities or other 24/7 operational experience considered advantageous.
Our values
At Port Taranaki our values guide us on how we act with one another and how we make decisions within our business. Demonstration of these values will be key to your success:
- Our people come first: we take care of each other and our communities.
- Integrity guides us: we trust each other and act with respect and honesty, even when it is challenging.
- We embrace the future: we strive for improvement through innovation and learning.
- We collaborate to succeed: we work as a team, helping each other succeed.
What we offer
Port Taranaki is an important economic and supply chain asset for Taranaki and beyond – connecting our key regional industries with the world. We are prepared for change and embracing new ways of working, ensuring we continue to deliver for our customers, and the region, in being the Pride of Taranaki.
We offer an environment where continuous learning and professional development is encouraged, as well as the ability to work autonomously - expertise and guidance at hand when you need it. We consider your wellbeing to be a priority, and we support you with great flexibility initiatives as well as having a respectful approach to diversity, inclusion, and equity in the workplace.
If this sounds like an opportunity you would enjoy, and you're motivated to contribute to the overall success of Port Taranaki Limited, please apply now with your CV and Cover Letter.
We will begin reviewing applications as they arrive - including conducting interviews. We will close this role when a successful candidate has been appointed.
All candidates must already hold the required residency status to work in New Zealand and be able to satisfy a Ministry of Justice criminal background check. Candidates must also hold a full NZ driver licence.
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