Asset Manager Infrastructure

CGR Services; Waikato; Hybrid; NZD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health programs

Professional development

Work-life balance

Employee recognition

Job summary

Fonterra Te Mātāpuna is seeking an experienced Asset Manager Infrastructure to lead our national infrastructure portfolio. You will shape long-term asset strategies, drive lifecycle planning, and ensure licences to operate, safety and building standards are met while collaborating with sites, vendors and senior leaders.

This role focuses on improving asset performance, reducing risk, and advancing sustainability across roads, drainage, dams, and utility corridors.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in facilities, infrastructure or asset management within a complex operational environment.
• Strong knowledge of asset management principles, lifecycle planning and infrastructure maintenance practices.
• Experience developing and implementing strategic plans that improve asset performance, compliance and operational efficiency.
• Sound understanding of building compliance requirements, safety standards and relevant regulatory frameworks.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills across multiple sites and functions.

Responsibilities

• Develop long-term infrastructure asset strategies aligned to business objectives.
• Lead asset management planning and lifecycle strategies for critical infrastructure assets.
• Own Licence to Operate requirements, ensuring regulatory compliance and safety standards.
• Drive operational excellence, risk reduction and improvements in asset condition.
• Champion sustainability initiatives and identify opportunities to improve environmental performance.
• Influence and partner with senior leaders, site teams and external providers to deliver outcomes.
• Provide leadership and SME guidance to Facilities Managers across the network.
• Strengthen vendor partnerships to ensure safe, high-quality and cost-effective service delivery.

Skills

Asset management

Stakeholder engagement

Strategic planning

Analytical thinking

Vendor management

SAP/CMMS exposure

Regulatory compliance knowledge

Leadership

Education

Facilities Management or related degree

ISO 55000 knowledge/certification

Tools

CMMS (SAP or similar)

Job description

Job description

Position Description

Imagine Tomorrow with Us | Ata whakaarohia tō āpōpō

At Fonterra Te Mātāpuna, we want everyone to feel they can be themselves.

Whether you're early in your career or ready for your next step, Fonterra offers a unique opportunity to grow with a global dairy co-operative that values care, collaboration, and contribution.

Owned by New Zealand dairy farmers and supported by a dedicated team, we are all working together to create a better future. Imagine tomorrow with us, where your career can grow, and you can create positive change.

About the Opportunity | Mō tēnei tūranga

As Asset Manager Infrastructure, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Fonterra's infrastructure and facilities portfolio. Reporting to the Asset Manager Infrastructure & Facilities, you'll provide strategic leadership across our national network, ensuring , ensuring fonterra's roads, drainage systems, dams and ponds, utility corridors, pipe bridges, lifting assets, and other critical infrastructure remain safe, compliant, resilient and fit for the future.

You will focus on developing and executing long-term infrastructure asset strategies, lifting organisational capability, influencing key stakeholders and driving consistency across our operations. You'll lead initiatives that strengthen our licence to operate, improve asset performance, reduce risk and support Fonterra's long-term operational and sustainability objectives.

With significant work underway to modernise our asset management approach, you'll have the opportunity to establish Asset Management Plans, improve infrastructure condition visibility, strengthen asset data governance, and drive investment decisions that improve the reliability and resilience of Fonterra's critical infrastructure portfolio.

You'll make a lasting impact by developing asset management plans, enhancing compliance frameworks, improving infrastructure asset maintenance systems, asset data quality and condition assessment processes (including infrastructure assets, roads, drainage, dams and ponds, utility corridors, fixed ladders, lifts, pipe bridges and bunding systems). By partnering with sites and vendors you'll deliver better outcomes across the business.

Key responsibilities include:

• Developing and implementing long-term infrastructure asset strategies aligned to business objectives.
• Leading asset management planning and lifecycle strategies for critical infrastructure assets.
• Owning critical Licence to Operate requirements, ensuring compliance with regulatory, safety and building standards.
• Driving operational excellence, risk reduction and improvements in asset condition across the portfolio.
• Championing sustainability initiatives and identifying opportunities to improve environmental performance.
• Influencing and partnering with senior leaders, site teams and external providers to deliver strategic outcomes.
• Providing functional leadership and subject matter expertise to Facilities Managers across the network.
• Strengthening vendor partnerships to ensure safe, high-quality and cost-effective service delivery.

About You | Mōu

You're a strategic thinker who combines strong technical expertise with the ability to influence and bring people on the journey. You understand how effective asset and facilities management supports business performance, and you're comfortable working across complex stakeholder environments to achieve long-term outcomes.

You'll bring a blend of infrastructure, civil , or asset management experience, along with the resilience and relationship-building skills needed to drive change across a large and diverse organisation.

To be successful, you'll ideally have:

• Extensive experience in facilities, infrastructure or asset management within a complex operational environment.
• Strong knowledge of asset management principles, lifecycle planning and infrastructure maintenance practices.
• Experience developing and implementing strategic plans that improve asset performance, compliance and operational efficiency.
• A sound understanding of building compliance requirements, safety standards and relevant regulatory frameworks.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively across multiple sites and functions.
• Experience managing external service providers and strategic vendor relationships.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, with the ability to translate data into actionable plans.
• Exposure to asset management frameworks, CMMS platforms, SAP or similar maintenance management systems.
• Relevant qualifications in Facilities Management, Civil Engineering, Asset Management, Building Services, a trade discipline, or a related field. Asset Management certification or familiarity with ISO 55000 principles would be highly regarded.

Most importantly, you'll bring a future-focused mindset, a passion for continuous improvement, and the drive to help build a world-class infrastructure asset management capability for Fonterra.

Our Values | Ngā Aura

At Fonterra, our values of Good Together, Better Every Day, and Every Drop Counts, are for everyone – no matter your background, identify or experience. These values guide us in delivering exceptional outcomes for our farmers, customers, communities, and each other. Discover how your values align with ours by taking our Values Quiz

Our Commitment to You | Tā mātou oati

We care for our people globally. Our comprehensive benefits support your well-being, development, and work-life balance:

• Fair and equitable pay
• Health and well-being programs (medical, mental health support)
• Professional development opportunities
• Career growth support
• Work-life balance options (flexible/hybrid working where possible)
• Employee recognition
• Support for community involvement and cultural connection

To learn more, visit Fonterra Careers

A Career of Opportunities | Ngā Mahi

At Fonterra, we are inspired by purpose and guided by our principles and values. Together, we create goodness for generations and make a global impact at a local level. As part of our Co-operative, you are an everyday creator, imagining what Fonterra, dairy, and you can be here.

Join Us | Tātou Tātou

Does this sound good to you? Come join our whānau - bring your whole self, and let's solve for better together.

You, me, us together, Tātou, tātou.

Together, we're shaping a future of inclusion | He Wāhi mō te Katoa

Inclusion is key to our Co-operative. We're building a team that reflects the diverse world we live in, believing it drives better decisions and innovation.

We welcome applications from all backgrounds (ethnicities, genders, identities, orientations, ages, abilities, neurotypes, cultures, religions).

Even if you don't meet every requirement listed, we encourage you to apply; we value your potential and growth.

If you face accessibility issues or need accommodations during the process, please contact your recruiter. We ensure fair participation, allowing you to be at your best. Tātou, tātou.

Applications close at midnight on Sunday 16th August