Asset Planning Engineer - Open Space, Parks & Buildings

Gympie Regional Council is dedicated to providing high-quality services to the community, promoting our vision for embracing opportunities, promoting wellbeing and celebrating strong communities. With a focus on accountability, communication, customer service, integrity, teamwork, and collaboration, we are committed to actively serving our community and planning for the future of our region. Our workforce supports a range of services including enhancing public spaces and providing strategic vision for the community. We offer a great place to work with flexible working arrangements, employee health and wellbeing programs, and opportunities for professional growth and development.

About the Role

The Asset Planning Engineer - Open Space - Parks - Buildings plays a vital role in optimising the whole life cycle of assets to ensure service level objectives are met. This position focuses on the technical assessment of Open Spaces, including Parks and Land, as well as building assets. You will be responsible for planning and conducting feasibility studies, condition assessments, and options analyses to address renewals and growth, ensuring the effective management of these assets. Additionally, you will contribute to asset management strategy development and support the implementation of asset performance improvements.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Utilising the Technology 1 Strategic Asset Module or similar tools to forecast a 10-year Asset Renewal profile and produce a 3-year fixed renewal plan.
• Preparing feasibility studies, concept designs, options assessments, and business cases for growth, renewal, compliance, and improvement projects.
• Implementing Asset Improvement Initiatives such as Asset Management and Asset Class Plans to enhance asset life cycle costs and service delivery outcomes.
• Supporting asset performance dash-boarding, monitoring, and reporting to inform investment decisions.
• Leading investigations and data analysis to address systemic asset and network performance issues.
• Collaborating with internal stakeholders across departments to provide technical support and strategic advice.

About You

You are an experienced professional with:

• A qualification in a related field such as Engineering, Asset Management, or equivalent. A degree is preferred, but a diploma with significant relevant experience will also be considered.
• Experience in Building, Open Space, and Park Infrastructure Engineering, Modelling, or Planning.
• Interpersonal skills, with the ability to build rapport and communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• A demonstrated ability to optimise asset life cycles in line with service level outcomes.
• Proven capability to work independently, exercise initiative, and meet deadlines.

The Benefits

At Gympie Regional Council, we offer:

• A nine-day fortnight and flexible working hours.
• Hybrid working arrangements.
• Access to employee health and wellbeing programs, including a Fitness Passport.
• Generous superannuation scheme and salary sacrificing arrangements.
• Employee assistance program offering free confidential counselling and personal coaching services.
• Modern ICT technology and a commitment to future ICT investment.

Join us to contribute to our community's wellbeing and be part of a forward-thinking organisation. With opportunities for professional development and a supportive work environment, Gympie Regional Council is the ideal place to advance your career.

Please apply by upload your current resume in Microsoft Word format only (.doc or .docx). If you would like to have a confidential discussion, please contact Donna Ison on +61 0417718763 or Ben Byrne +61 422 074 459, quoting reference JN -082024-37971. Want to know more about Davidson? Visit us at www.davidsonwp.com