Asset Manager

Summary

Accountable for the daily management and coordination of NYPA’s overall operations, including Overseeing, monitoring, and evaluating the operational performance; directing the preparation of operating budgets and proposals for capital expenditure and investments in infrastructure, technology, equipment, systems, or other assets and resources; analyzing and approving operational investments that best meet the organization's business needs.

Responsible for practicing a fiscally prudent, whole-life value Asset Management approach to optimize the performance, cost (capital and operating), and risk of the assets throughout their lifecycle while ensuring safety, reliability, resilience, environmental, and regulatory compliance to support achievement of customers, stakeholders, New York State, and organizational goals.

Responsibilities

• Understand, communicate, execute tasks and/or implement specific elements of the New York Power Authority’s (NYPA’s) Asset Management System as defined in Business Unit Policies and Procedures 
• Provide leadership, motivation and collaboration which are critical for successful asset management and NERC Reliability Standards Compliance.
• Establishing and updating the asset management plan(s).
• Monitor the asset management performance metrics, diagnose deficiencies and identify actions for making improvements to attain targets.
• Perform audits on work done by the Planners in managing and ensuring NYPA’s regulatory compliance in connection with NERC functional entities.
• Utilize risk-based and fact-based methodologies for asset life cycle analysis and maintain the asset risk register for the region.
• Lead and responsible for a comprehensive assets registry
• Improve the decision-making process for asset management based on quantifiable risk.
• Manage the implementation and ongoing improvement of all data on physical assets to include asset onboarding, criticality, condition assessment, inspection history, repairs and failures.
• Ensure the consistency and accuracy of data collected through the Enterprise Asset Management System (Maximo).
• Enforce governance policies and procedures that align to Asset Management policy and strategy.
• Coordinate ongoing activities requiring site reach to interface with: Operations, maintenance, engineering, warehousing, EH&S to ensure effective and economical use of materials and human capital.
• Maintain current knowledge in Asset Management principles, practices, procedures and technology.  With this knowledge, makes recommendations for implementation to the Asset Management System.
• Key to the role is the development and execution of Reliability& Availability strategies which deliver maximum reliable uptime of assets.
• Develop and maintain long-range (10 year) work plan and budget to ensure optimal performance of assets over entire life-cycle.
• Coordinate development and prioritization of projects in support of the long range work plan.
• Monitor operational performance data to determine optimal maintenance and replacement strategies for assets
• Support the safe and environmentally responsible operation of the region’s assets.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Excellent Project Management skills with the ability to develop and lead project teams.
• Ability to analyze technical information.
• Ability to analyze financial information, including budgets (capital and O&M), investment analysis (cost/benefit, ROI, etc.) and life-cycle costs.
• Ability to develop long-range (10-year plan) capital and O&M plans and project prioritizations.
• Strong verbal and written skills with the ability to deal persuasively with individuals at multiple levels, to think strategically and present an integrated, properly formatted end-to-end story with concise data analysis.
• Solid understanding of NERC/NPCC compliance requirements.
• Solid understanding of the financial and operational impact of maintenance decisions.
• Organized and detail-oriented.
• Demonstrated leadership skills in areas of change management.
• Ability to utilize Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) definition and tracking for Asset Management process improvement determination.
• Working knowledge of industry standards related to Asset Management are required.

Education, Experience and Certifications

• BS/BA degree in Engineering or Business.
• Master’s degree in Business or Engineering preferred.
• 8 years of successful experience in a utility or related field preferred. (Operations and maintenance experience preferred)
• Experience with Enterprise Asset Management Systems preferred (MAXIMO preferred), SAP experience (or ability to learn).

Physical Requirements

• Significant travel expected (25% - 45% depending upon responsibilities), primarily within NY State to NYPA owned facilities by car, company plane and commercial transportation.
• Up to 25% travel primarily within NY State.
• Valid Driver’s License.
• Ability to travel for meetings and project coordination.
• Availability to attend meetings outside of normal business hours.