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Start your Jacobs career with a company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow.

At Jacobs, we’ll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40 countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients, and communities.

Our Operations, Management, and Facilities Services (OMFS) team is at the forefront of delivering critical services to major projects across Australia and internationally. We excel in both client-facing and internal roles, providing exceptional program and project management capabilities throughout the entire project lifecycle. By embracing innovation and fostering collaboration, we are committed to delivering safe, high-quality, and timely solutions.

Presently, we are seeking a highly skilled Senior Asset Maintenance Specialist to join our team in Newcastle. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in providing tactical asset maintenance and management support to clients in various industries, including water and wastewater utilities, built infrastructure, transportation, and public and private works. Your responsibilities will include offering valuable client and business development support for OMFS Asset Management, Operations, and Maintenance service offerings.

Leveraging your extensive experience in asset availability, reliability, and maintainability, you will devise and implement short and long-term maintenance strategies that align with our clients' CAPEX and OPEX budgets. Your adeptness in identifying and prioritizing O&M business needs will be crucial in recommending necessary changes to optimize processes.

With your strong analytical and organizational skills, you will proficiently identify, analyze, and interpret trends and patterns in complex O&M data sets. Moreover, your exceptional communication abilities will allow you to develop and deliver comprehensive training sessions to our clients, empowering them in their asset maintenance programs.

Here’s what you’ll need :

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field or relevant experience.

• Proven experience in asset management and operations, maintenance strategy identification and implementation, maintenance planning and scheduling.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to develop and write comprehensive client reports.

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritize workload effectively.

• Experience in asset availability, reliability and maintainability improvement programs such as Reliability Centered Maintenance, Root Cause Analysis/FMECA etc.;

• Asset Condition and Criticality Assessment Practices and Processes including asset remaining life calculations and decay forecasts;

• Operational Readiness Experience and Capability;

• O&M Training Competency Frameworks and Delivery;

• Experience with Performance management systems and benchmarking;

• Experience with Business Improvement Processes and Practices;

• Understanding and capability in International Infrastructure Management Manual Processes and Practices.

• Working experience of CMMS/Enterprise Asset Management Systems and Implementation practices;

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

Jacobs. A world where you can. 

At Jacobs, we support your personal life and career journeys. From our inclusive employee networks to our positive mental health champions, we're committed to driving a culture of caring where you can be you. With safety and flexibility always top of mind, we've gone beyond traditional ways of working to help you uncover a working arrangement that delivers the flexibility, tools and space to maximise your potential.

We're the 2023 winners of the Consult Australia People First Award for our suite of employee benefits that support all our employees in all stages of their personal and professional lives.

For the 6th consecutive year, we've been named an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (Australia). In New Zealand, we're a founding member of The Diversity Agenda and are committed to making our industry more inclusive and diverse. In Australia, our Reconciliation journey continues to be a considerable focus across all levels of the Jacobs community as we progress our Innovate level Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP).

Our Bronze Employer status in the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTI inclusion recognises our progress in creating an environment where our Jacobs employees can bring their whole selves to work.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we're inclusive, we're more connected, and if diverse, we're more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you're pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our eight global Jacobs employee networks centred on driving inclusion and diversity – ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and our Women’s Network – find out more about our Jacobs Employee Networks here. (https://www.jacobs.com/about/inclusion-and-diversity)

No matter what drives you, you'll discover a way to cultivate, nurture and achieve your goals – all at a single global company.

We're an equal opportunity employer and encourage candidates of diverse backgrounds to apply. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are strongly encouraged to apply. Jacobs aims to provide cultural safety at our interviews. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are invited to nominate a cultural representative to participate on the interview panel; please let your recruiter know in your application.

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Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people from marginalised or underrepresented backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every qualification. At Jacobs, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align with every requirement in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be the right candidate for this or other roles.

Please note:  If you are being represented by a recruitment agency you will not be considered, to be considered you will need to apply directly to Jacobs.

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