Asset Performance Engineer

Overview

Develop and manage strategies to ensure safe, reliable, efficient performance of gas network assets.

Key Responsibilities

• failure analysis
• performance monitoring
• risk identification
• emergency response
• asset management
• process safety

Tasks

As the Asset Performance Engineer, you’ll be responsible for developing and maintaining strategies that guide how we manage our gas network assets across their lifecycle. In this role you will have broad exposure to all Asset Classes, including our Transmission Pipelines, Distribution Pipelines, Meters, Regulators and Electrical/Comms Assets. You’ll work closely with the Asset Class Leads, data, field teams, and other stakeholders to monitor asset health, identify risks, and recommend improvements. Your insights will help shape maintenance plans, capital investment decisions, and long-term asset replacement programs. -Support Asset class failure investigations and root cause analysis failure to apply lessons learned for the future performance of the Asset. -Maintaining a safe and reliable gas network, supporting price stability, and seeking equitable outcomes for customers through the energy transition will require ongoing dialogue and a coordinated approach. -Monitor Asset class performance and health on at least a quarterly basis through KPIs, data analysis and intel from the field. -Identify Risks, Strengths and Weaknesses to Asset and Network Performance, stemming from external drivers in Industry. -Support for Emergency Response on the Network -Support the development of Asset Management and Maintenance strategies that balance and manage risk, asset performance and cost with an asset lifecycle view. -Contribute to Process Safety across our Gas Network Assets by providing personnel and process safety leadership, continuously setting expectations and exhibiting behaviours in line with AusNet Services values. -Undertakes independent problem solving and management of resolution for assigned work -Contribute to Risk Assessments on key Asset risks identified. Maintain an Asset Class Operational Risk Register and asset defect register, detailing identified risks, actions, action owner and due dates for mitigation.

Requirements

• initiative
• gas engineering
• engineering degree
• commercial acumen
• outcome focus
• hybrid

What You Bring

With a Hybrid split (Office/WFH), this role is based in South Bank and is part of the Network Management Team, with occasional travel to site within Victoria. -Ability to take initiative, display autonomy and plan pro-actively. -Demonstrated experience in the Gas Industry, Gas engineering and asset management. Whether you’ve just started your career in Gas or been involved for a while, we would still love to hear from you. -Engineering Degree -Demonstration of some commercial acumen. -Ability to deliver with an outcome focus.

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Benefits

When you choose AusNet, you’ll join genuine people working together making Real. Progress We celebrate unique voices, refreshing perspectives and diversity in our team. Engage and connect through our social club, family day, wide range of events or by joining one of our Employee Network Groups. -Perks: we offer all the other perks you’ve come to expect like purchased leave, income protection insurance, novated leasing, corporate discounts, private health cover discounts and more. -Community giving: a paid day to volunteer with our social impact partner, Foodbank, or for a cause that matters to you. -Leave: more than typical personal leave and a generous 14 weeks of paid parental leave, with no minimum service. -Flexibility: whether this is hybrid work, flexible hours, or part time arrangements, we’ll work with you to help balance work and life.

About Ausnet

-Moves clean energy—like wind and solar—from rural generators into Melbourne, powering communities and businesses. -Through its Mondo arm, delivers contracted energy services including solar connections and grid-intelligence tech. -Unusual for a network operator, manages both gas and electricity across generation, transmission, and distribution.

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