Asset Risk Modelling Manager

Transpower New Zealand; Wellington; On-site; NZD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Transpower New Zealand seeks an Asset Management professional to lead and enhance asset health and risk models vital for the national grid. You will manage a skilled team, drive analytical initiatives, and ensure robust decision support across significant infrastructure investments.

Benefits

Employee Health and Wellness Benefits

Flexible Work Arrangements

Qualifications

• Experience in team development, capacity building, and coaching.
• Strong understanding of asset management for infrastructure.
• Familiarity with data systems and modelling methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team in evolving asset health and risk models.
• Support risk-based decision making across the Grid business.
• Manage full work programmes while nurturing team capabilities.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Communication

Leadership

Education

Relevant Tertiary Qualification

Tools

Data Management Platforms

Job description

• Work cross enterprise, lead asset health and risk modelling
  
• Challenging analytical work that will drive significant value
  
• Lead a small team supporting forecasting Grid renewal investment
  
  
  

Drive 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.

As the owner and operator of New Zealand's electricity transmission grid, we provide a critical service, including seeking to understand how the grid can deliver the cost-effective level of service expected of customers, while accommodating the growing demand for renewable electricity through electrification of industry and transport.

About The Team

Transpower's Grid Development division works to identify grid needs for the next 30 years. A critical activity is to ensure the asset health and performance of our grid assets informs future investments, and that these investments are integrated with wider system plans.

Our Strategy Performance and Risk team develop our asset management system, including our grid strategies, risk, and resilience information. The team also reports on grid performance, manages asset and system information, and models asset health and criticality.

The opportunity - due to internal promotion!

In your preferred location of Christchurch or Wellington, you'll lead a team of six, and the evolution of asset health and network risk models whilst maintaining the asset health and criticality frameworks that inform and support investment decisions and funding submissions.

We'll support you to work with the data and analytics group governance to scope analytics to improve our evidence and calibration of asset health models, and to support implementation of a modelling platform for coding processes and data handling for the group.

You'll support and enable risk-based decisions to be made across the Grid business and support the implementation and mentoring of others in making these decisions. This will include the development and improvement of decision support tools and regular reporting on how investments deliver asset health benefits.

Ultimately, you'll progress your career and grow as an Asset Management professional through broadening and deepen your understanding of modelling, data systems, and asset health and risk for over $5b of assets that are critical infrastructure for Aotearoa.

What will you bring?

You'll enjoy building the capability of others and managing a full work programme utilising your understanding of how data and analytics work as well as your asset management experience! You will have outstanding analytical, communication, and influencing skills underpinned by a relevant tertiary qualification and experience in modelling/risk.

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 and the Executive team.
  
• Experience in team development, building capability, change leadership and coaching technical specialists.
  
• Experience or an understanding of asset management for infrastructure
  
• An understanding of platforms, systems, and data management used for modelling asset health and risk.
  
  
  

Join us at Transpower

Aotearoa is powered by the people who work here. Every home, every marae, every electric vehicle, every hospital relies on the electricity we manage and deliver. This is your opportunity to join us on a mission that affects all New Zealanders - every day and long into the future.

With over 28 nationalities, our people provide diverse perspectives, knowledge, and deep and varied experience which they love to share and which we celebrate.

We work in the office or on-site for a minimum of three days each week, which helps us build and maintain relationships, support learning, deliver outcomes, and sustain our culture. This approach also offers staff the flexibility they need for both work and personal commitments, with adaptable daily start and finish times.

We prioritise wellbeing with a range of employee health and wellness benefits - check them out here.

Next steps

Please review the position description below/via our careers website and our RCP4 Main Proposal (transpower.co.nz) and apply without delay.

Role closes Monday 14th July 2025 however, applications will be reviewed as they are received, and you may be contacted to explore your application further or to arrange an interview prior to the close date.