Asset Intelligence Manager

Transpower New Zealand; Christchurch; Hybrid; NZD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy company in New Zealand is seeking a team leader for asset modelling and analysis. The role involves managing a small team, optimizing asset health and risk models, and enabling evidence-based investment decisions. The ideal candidate has strong analytical skills, leadership experience, and a relevant tertiary qualification. Join a mission-driven team that prioritizes wellbeing and flexibility, contributing significantly to New Zealand's energy future.

Benefits

Employee health and wellness benefits

Flexible work hours

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven team leadership in a technical field.
• Experience in asset management for critical infrastructure.
• Strong ability to communicate effectively with senior managers.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of six in asset health and risk modelling.
• Collaborate with internal customers to inform funding decisions.
• Develop scalable platforms for data analysis.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Leadership

Data analytics

Asset management

Education

Relevant tertiary qualification

Tools

Data modelling platforms

Analytics software

Job description

Overview

Deliver proactive asset modelling and analytics for $5B of critical assets. Lead a small team delivering insights to inform nationwide asset planning. Dynamic, data-centric analytical work that drives significant value.

Enable critical infrastructure reliability and resilience through optimising asset health and risk models for the National Grid. Our core purpose is to empower the energy future for New Zealand – a future that delivers a net-zero carbon economy and a reliable and secure electricity system.

About the Role

In our Grid Development Division, the Strategy, Performance and Risk team manages asset strategy, risk and resilience, reports on grid performance, and models asset health and criticality for our Asset Planning internal customers, who incorporate the insights into their planning and prioritisation of work. The Asset Modelling team, within Strategy, Performance and Risk, delivers impact by collaborating with our Data and Analytics specialists within ICT to enable future-focused asset management excellence.

Meaningful work you can be proud of leading the team to deliver!

Examples of Impacts

• Using a dataset of over 5 million condition scores, applying techniques such as filtering, multiple regression and geospatial smoothing to improve degradation-rate accuracy, avoiding early expenditure of $16.5M for conductors and insulators over 5 years.
• Developed Asset Health modelling to understand and trend condition and risk information for HVDC subsea cables, supporting the submission for a $1.1B cable replacement project.
• Improved probabilistic models that determine a monetised Asset Criticality, processing 35 million power system simulations to estimate service restoration time and convert energy unserved into cost, facilitating risk-based replacements and resilience investment decisions.
• Developed cost-benefit tools that quantify risk and inform investment decisions for proactive resilience investments.

The Opportunity

Due to internal promotion, in Wellington or Christchurch you will lead a team of six in a high-impact role combining leadership, asset management, and data analysis & modelling. You will drive the evolution of asset health and network risk models while maintaining frameworks that inform investment decisions and funding submissions. While risk understanding is important, the key is enabling evidence-based decisions through strategic insights and robust modelling.

You will collaborate across the Grid business and with the IT Data and Analytics team to scope and deliver analytics that strengthen asset health models and network risk insights. You will lead the implementation of scalable modelling platforms that support coding processes and data handling, ensuring consistency and efficiency. Asset Planning is the internal customer who depends on the team’s outputs to make robust, evidence-based funding and investment decisions. You will play a central role in enabling risk-based decision-making, mentoring others in the use of decision-support tools and guiding interpretation of asset data to maximise value for over $5 billion of critical infrastructure that powers Aotearoa.

What You Will Bring

You will enjoy building capability in others and managing a full work programme, applying your understanding of how data analytics and modelling inform asset management and asset health and risk decision-making. Known for outstanding analytical, communication, and influencing skills, your expertise will be underpinned by a relevant tertiary qualification and ideally experience in asset modelling to support asset planning decisions.

To be shortlisted your CV, cover letter and career to date will demonstrate:

• Team leadership in a technical capacity, balancing multiple priorities and communicating effectively with Senior Managers
• Experience in team development, building capability, navigating change and coaching technical specialists
• Experience or understanding of asset management for critical infrastructure
• Understanding of platforms, systems, and data management used for modelling asset health and risk
• Curiosity and demonstrated ability to lead delivery of meaningful data insights and intelligence

Join Us

Aotearoa is powered by the people who work here. This is your opportunity to join us on a mission that affects all New Zealanders – every day and long into the future. We value diversity, with colleagues from many nationalities contributing varied perspectives and experience.

We work in the office or on-site for a minimum of three days each week to build relationships, support learning, deliver outcomes, and sustain our culture. This approach also offers staff the flexibility they need for work and personal commitments, with adaptable daily start and finish times. We prioritise wellbeing with a range of employee health and wellness benefits.

Next Steps

Please review the position description below/via our careers website and our RCP4 Main Proposal and apply without delay. Role closes Wednesday 8 October 2025; applications will be reviewed as they are received, and you may be contacted to explore your application or arrange an interview prior to the close date.