Description

Position Purpose and Objectives:

Under the direction of the Vice President of Asset Management and Supply Chain, the Asset Manager leads the development, implementation, governance, and continuous improvement of United Power's asset management program. The position oversees the Asset Management team and establishes lifecycle strategies, asset information standards, condition and performance monitoring, risk-based investment practices, and cross-functional processes for Distribution and General Plant assets, processes, and work orders from acquisition through retirement and disposal.

Essential Job Functions:

• Lead, supervise, and coordinate the activities of the Asset Management team, establishing clear priorities, accountability, service levels, and performance expectations.
• Build, implement, and maintain a multi-year asset management program roadmap that defines governance, asset classes, decision rights, maturity objectives, implementation milestones, resource requirements, and measurable benefits.
• Develop and maintain lifecycle strategies for electric distribution and general plant assets from planning and acquisition through operation, maintenance, renewal, replacement, retirement, and disposal.
• Establish lifecycle monitoring standards by asset class, including inspection requirements, condition ratings, health indices, criticality, failure history, performance trends, remaining-life estimates, and intervention thresholds.
• Develop asset class plans and long-range renewal forecasts that identify emerging risks, maintenance needs, replacement priorities, investment timing, and total lifecycle cost.
• Create and apply risk-based decision frameworks that consider asset condition, criticality, probability and consequence of failure, safety, reliability, environmental, financial, member, and operational impacts.
• Support development of distribution capital and maintenance plans by prioritizing replacements, upgrades, inspections, and preventive programs through risk assessments, lifecycle cost analysis, and documented decision criteria.
• Maintain an accurate, complete, and current asset registry and condition database using GIS, Enterprise Asset Management systems, including Trimble Maintain, and related financial and operational systems.
• Define and govern asset hierarchies, naming conventions, required attributes, data ownership, quality rules, reconciliation controls, system interfaces, and change-management requirements across asset information systems.
• Serve as functional owner or system administrator for assigned asset management applications, controlling configuration changes, access, testing, documentation, release readiness, and user adoption.
• Develop dashboards and recurring and ad hoc management reports for asset health, failure trends, inspection compliance, data completeness, maintenance effectiveness, lifecycle cost, retirement backlog, risk exposure, and program performance.
• Establish cross-functional governance and review cycles with System Design, Engineering, Operations, Finance, Information Technology, Procurement, Fleet, Warehouse, and Plant Accounting to align asset decisions with organizational objectives.
• Participate in the Construction Unit and Materials Standards Committee; maintain construction units, material standards, and related controls aligned with operational, engineering, accounting, and asset lifecycle requirements.
• Support monthly closing activities for Asset Management, Material Inventory, Fleet Management, and Work Orders, including review, reconciliation, exception resolution, capitalization support, and timely work order closure.
• Collaborate with Fleet and Warehouse teams to oversee weekly inventory cycle counts across all locations and address control, accuracy, and reconciliation issues.
• Support internal and external audits by maintaining defensible records, providing requested documentation, resolving findings, and implementing sustainable corrective actions.
• Develop, document, standardize, and periodically review asset management policies, processes, procedures, roles, controls, and performance measures to improve effectiveness, compliance, and auditability.
• Assess asset management program maturity, identify capability gaps, and lead prioritized continuous-improvement initiatives that deliver improved reliability, risk reduction, cost control, and asset information quality.
• Identify staff competency and training needs; implement development plans, role-based training, and knowledge-transfer practices that support sustainable program ownership and team performance.
• Set clear employee goals, monitor progress, provide coaching and feedback, and measure results to support individual accountability and team development.
• Creates, expands, and maintains professional and productive working relationships with peers and stakeholders. Works collaboratively with colleagues and fosters a spirit of cooperation and inclusion in the workplace.
• Performs other such duties as may be requested or assigned to fulfill the needs of United Power in the interest of good management practice.
• Supervision Received and Exercised:

Provides direct supervision to the Asset Management team. Establishes priorities, assigns resources, develops staff capability, and monitors performance. Acts as an advisor and becomes actively involved as needed to resolve complex asset, system, data, work order, or program implementation issues.

Education and Experience Required:

Bachelor's degree in asset management, engineering, business administration, finance, accounting, information systems, data analytics, or a related field and a minimum of five years of progressively responsible experience in asset management, utility operations, plant accounting, work management, reliability, or a related field. Experience must include leading cross-functional initiatives, improving business processes, and using asset or operational data to support decisions. Additional relevant experience may substitute for the degree requirement.

Desired Experience:

Experience building, implementing, or maturing an asset management program in an electric utility or similarly asset-intensive organization is preferred. Experience with asset lifecycle planning, condition assessment, asset criticality and risk modeling, lifecycle costing, reliability analysis, data governance, GIS, EAM or computerized maintenance management systems, plant accounting, and ISO 55000 principles is desirable.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of asset management principles and practices, including lifecycle planning, value realization, risk, performance, cost, governance, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to design and build a sustainable program, including development of roadmaps, governance structures, standards, implementation plans, controls, performance measures, training, and change-management practices.
• Ability to develop and apply asset condition, health, criticality, failure, risk, remaining-life, and lifecycle cost models appropriate to the available data and business need.
• Strong understanding of asset information management and data governance, including asset hierarchies, master data, data quality, ownership, reconciliation, interfaces, controls, and reporting.
• Advanced analytical skills with the ability to integrate operational, engineering, financial, maintenance, and spatial data into clear recommendations and decision-support tools.
• Ability to define meaningful key performance and risk indicators, establish baselines and targets, interpret trends, and communicate asset performance and program benefits to leadership and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated strategic thinking, sound judgment, and ability to balance safety, reliability, service, risk, cost, and long-term value when making or recommending decisions.
• Proven ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives, clarify decision rights, build stakeholder commitment, manage change, and sustain adoption of new processes and systems.
• Effective leadership and team management skills, including the selection and retention of qualified team members; setting direction, assigning accountability, coaching, motivating, developing, and empowering staff.
• Ability to establish and uphold high standards for data quality, process discipline, documentation, productivity, customer service, and timely completion of commitments.
• Solid understanding of general and plant accounting principles, work order processes, capitalization, inventory controls, and audit requirements.
• Excellent verbal, written, facilitation, and presentation skills, with the ability to translate technical and analytical information for operational, financial, and executive audiences.
• Demonstrated problem-solving ability, attention to detail, and skill in investigating root causes and implementing effective corrective actions.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint; ability to learn and administer asset, work management, reporting, and data visualization applications.
• Willingness to be accessible to staff during extended or non-standard work hours as operational needs require.

Problem Solving:

The employee is responsible for developing solutions to complex, cross-functional asset management challenges involving incomplete or inconsistent data, competing priorities, asset deterioration, operational constraints, financial impacts, and multiple concurrent programs. The employee evaluates alternatives, establishes decision criteria, recommends risk-informed actions, resolves implementation barriers, and allocates resources to achieve organizational and program objectives.

Discretion/Latitude:

Work assignments are broadly defined. The employee exercises substantial discretion in developing and implementing asset management strategies, governance, standards, schedules, priorities, controls, processes, and measurement systems. The employee determines appropriate analytical methods, recommends investment and lifecycle priorities, coordinates resources across functions, and escalates matters with significant safety, reliability, financial, compliance, or organizational implications.

Impact:

Decisions and recommendations directly affect asset reliability, safety, lifecycle cost, capital and maintenance priorities, financial reporting, data integrity, operational effectiveness, auditability, and the long-term success of United Power's asset management program. Erroneous decisions may have a serious impact on functional, divisional, or company operations.

Liaison:

Frequently interacts with contractors, consultants, and external stakeholders regarding construction work orders, asset data, inspections, inventories, standards, system implementation, and program deliverables.

Interacts daily with direct reports and functional peer groups to set priorities, resolve issues, exchange technical and operational information, review performance, and coordinate cross-functional decisions.

Frequently interacts with employees throughout the organization to develop asset strategies, specifications, data standards, work plans, controls, training, and processes that improve lifecycle decisions and service delivery.

Essential Physical Requirements

The physical requirements described here are representative of those required to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Primarily performs work in a sedentary office environment and may remain seated for extended periods.
• Frequently performs work in a sedentary office environment and may remain seated for extended periods.
• Frequently communicates with employees, members, vendors, and other stakeholders and must be able to exchange accurate information verbally and in writing.
• Primarily performs work in a sedentary office environment and may remain seated for extended periods.
• Frequently uses hands and fingers to operate a computer, keyboard, mouse, telephone, and other standard office equipment.
• Frequently reads, analyzes, and prepares electronic and printed documents requiring close visual acuity.
• Occasionally moves throughout office facilities to attend meetings, access files, or perform other work-related activities.
• Occasionally bends, stoops, kneels, crouches, reaches, or twists when accessing files, office supplies, or equipment.
• May occasionally lift, carry, push, or pull materials weighing up to ten (10 lbs.) pounds.
• Maintains attention to detail and accuracy while managing multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Analyzes information, evaluates alternatives, and exercises sound judgment in decision-making.
• Interprets and applies policies, procedures, regulations, and technical information.
• Communicates effectively through verbal and written means with individuals at all levels of the organization.
• Demonstrates problem-solving, critical thinking, and organizational skills in a dynamic work environment.

W Work Environment

Work is primarily performed in a climate-controlled office environment with frequent use of computers and standard office equipment. The position may occasionally require travel between company facilities or off-site locations for meetings, training, or business-related purposes.

Department: Asset Management and Supply Chain FLSA Status: Exempt Grade: 21

Updated: September 2026

NOTE: This position description is not intended to be all-inclusive; an employee will also perform other job responsibilities as assigned by the immediate supervisor or management.

Management reserves the right to change position descriptions, specifications, or work schedules to accommodate individuals with disabilities or as needed.

This position description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment.

Typical hiring range:

Pay Grade: 21: $119,800 - $143,185 - $166,570 annually