Senior Asset Management Engineering Manager

Salary: $136,905.60 - $205,358.40 Annually
Location : 6450 York St., Denver, CO
Job Type: Full time
Job Number:
Department: Comprehensive Planning
Division: Planning
Opening Date: 10/01/2026
Closing Date: 10/11/2026 11:59 PM Mountain

Description

Why It's a Great Opportunity
Metro Water Recovery (Metro) is focused on ensuring its wastewater infrastructure remains reliable, resilient, and positioned to meet the needs of the future. As Metro continues to advance its asset management program, the Senior Asset Management Engineering Manager provides strategic leadership for the Asset Management Engineering Division and plays a key role in how Metro plans, manages, and invests in its critical infrastructure.

This position leads Metro's enterprise Asset Management Program and serves as a subject matter expert in asset lifecycle management, reliability, risk-based decision-making, and infrastructure investment. Working closely with the Director of Comprehensive Planning, this role translates organizational strategy into practical asset management programs, standards, methodologies, and initiatives.

The Senior Asset Management Engineering Manager oversees the development and implementation of Asset Management Plans, leads asset condition and criticality efforts, and develops lifecycle strategies and asset replacement recommendations. The role also helps shape capital investment priorities by balancing risk, reliability, performance, regulatory requirements, and cost.

This is an opportunity to influence how Metro makes long-term infrastructure decisions while working across engineering, operations, maintenance, finance, information technology, and other organizational functions. You'll also have the opportunity to advance Enterprise Asset Management systems and data-driven decision-making that support Metro's infrastructure strategy.

We offer a range of benefits, including a flexible work environment, a competitive salary, and an incentive training program to help you grow and develop your skills. This is just a small sample of all the benefits we offer!
Why It's a Great Department:
The Senior Asset Management Engineering Manager is a key leader within the Comprehensive Planning Department, working at the intersection of planning, engineering, operations, maintenance, finance, and organizational strategy. Our department looks at the big picture - helping Metro understand future infrastructure needs, evaluate alternatives, prioritize investments, and develop strategies that support reliable and sustainable wastewater services.

The Asset Management Engineering Division works closely with Engineering, Maintenance, Operations, Finance, and other departments to understand organizational needs and develop comprehensive planning recommendations. You'll also lead and participate in Enterprise Planning Group activities and decision-support processes that help bring diverse perspectives together around Metro's long-term infrastructure needs.

Our work requires collaboration, thoughtful analysis, and the ability to navigate complex issues with competing priorities. You'll work with technical experts, organizational leaders, consultants, and stakeholders to evaluate challenging infrastructure decisions and develop solutions that balance today's needs with tomorrow's demands.
How to be Successful:
We're looking for an experienced leader in asset management programs and complex, multidisciplinary initiatives. You'll understand how to evaluate asset condition, criticality, reliability, performance, and business risk and use that information to develop practical lifecycle strategies, replacement recommendations, and funding priorities.

Success in this role requires the ability to connect technical asset management practices to broader organizational goals. This includes developing and maintaining Asset Management Plans, implementing consistent asset management standards and governance processes, and integrating asset replacement needs into Metro's Capital Expenditure Schedule.

Strong communication and relationship-building skills are essential. You'll facilitate discussions among stakeholders with competing operational, maintenance, engineering, and financial priorities and use technical expertise, facilitation, and collaboration to influence decisions across the organization. You'll also communicate complex asset management concepts and recommendations effectively to technical staff, managers, leadership, committees, and stakeholder groups.

Technology and data will also be important to your success. You'll partner with Information Technology and operational stakeholders to improve Enterprise Asset Management systems, develop business requirements, improve asset information quality, and ensure dashboards, reporting, and analytical tools provide meaningful decision support.

Just as importantly, you'll be a people leader. You'll coach and mentor staff, support workforce and succession planning, develop technical capabilities, and foster a positive and productive work environment built on safety, accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and data-driven decision-making.
Your Future in this Role:
As the Senior Asset Management Engineering Manager, you'll have a significant opportunity to shape the future of Metro's infrastructure. You'll lead a major functional area within Comprehensive Planning with substantial autonomy, partnering with the Director of Comprehensive Planning to develop and implement asset management strategies that support Metro's long-term goals.

Your work will influence how Metro understands the condition and risk of its assets, prioritizes renewal and replacement needs, manages lifecycle costs, and makes capital investment decisions. You'll help establish the standards, governance, processes, and decision-support tools that create consistency in asset management practices across the organization.

Beyond the technical work, this position provides an opportunity to develop a strong team and build organizational capability through coaching, mentoring, training, workforce planning, and succession planning. You'll build relationships across Metro and contribute to strategic initiatives that have a lasting impact on the organization.

General Statement:
Provides strategic leadership and functional oversight for Metro's Asset Management Engineering Division related to the planning, research, study, asset management, maintenance, operation, and optimization of wastewater transmission and treatment facilities. Partners with the Director of Comprehensive Planning define long-range infrastructure strategy and ensure effective execution of programs aligned with organizational goals. Leads multidisciplinary teams and major initiatives with significant organizational impact. Works under the general direction of the Director of Comprehensive Planning. Direct and supervise the work of Comprehensive Planning staff.
Examples of Duties

1. Lead a major functional area within the Comprehensive Planning Department (CPD). Lead asset management efforts and serve as a subject matter expert. Operate with significant autonomy within established strategic direction and advises and partners with the Director to develop asset management strategies. Translate strategic direction into implementable programs and initiatives.
2. Manage and oversee implementation of Metro's Asset Management Program. Direct development and maintenance of Asset Management Plans (AMPs).
3. Lead implementation of asset management standards, methodologies, and processes across the organization. Ensure asset management practices align with organizational objectives, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.
4. Lead the Asset Management Program and participates in Metro program teams. Role includes facilitating meetings and working with various work groups on prioritization and decision-making.
5. Direct development of asset lifecycle strategies and asset replacement recommendations. Oversee coordination of asset replacement needs and associated funding recommendations for inclusion in the Capital Expenditure Schedule. Ensure asset investment recommendations appropriately balance risk, reliability, performance, and cost.
6. Manage evaluation of asset conditions, criticality, reliability, and business risk exposure.
7. Develop and maintain asset management governance documents, standards, and procedures. Manage enterprise asset information processes including commissioning, decommissioning, and asset hierarchy management.
8. Oversee quality and integrity of asset information maintained within Enterprise Asset Management systems.
9. Ensure compliance with asset management policies and procedures.
10. Negotiate and administer contracts for engineering activities.
11. Partner with Information Technology and operational stakeholders to improve asset information systems. Oversee implementation and enhancement of Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) systems and related technologies. Manage development of business requirements for asset management software improvements. Ensure reporting, dashboards, and analytical tools effectively support decision-making.
12. Supervise and mentor staff and develop technical capabilities through training and targeted work assignments. Seeks to support staff by listening to concerns with empathy and managing conflict through effective listening and a genuine desire to understand and resolve identified issues. Consult with the Director of Comprehensive Planning on workforce planning and knowledge development.
13. Responsible for maintaining and promoting a safe working environment. Ensure employees complete all required training on time, maintain compliance with organizational requirements, and follow all safety protocols. Ensures employees maintain required certifications.
14. Participate in workforce planning, succession planning, recruitment, and employee development activities. Recommend programs to improve the skills, knowledge, and job performance of CPD staff. Participate in selection process, performance reviews, coaching and mentoring, and any disciplinary action as needed.
15. Establish work priorities, assign projects, and monitor staff performance. Develop workload projections and related resource requirements. Coordinate with others to fully utilize CPD staff. Approve project and divisional expenditures.
16. Coordinate asset management activities with Engineering, Maintenance, Operations, Finance, and other departments to understand their needs and expectations. Presents recommendations and technical information to leadership, committees, and stakeholder groups. Coordinates CPD support to other Metro departments.
17. Represent the department in internal asset management efforts and external professional organizations.
18. Identify and support continuous improvement activities for the business processes and tools used in the CPD.
19. Lead asset management improvements and implementation of asset management best practices related to ISO 55000, reliability engineering, lifecycle management, and utility asset management. Monitor industry developments and emerging asset management methodologies.
20. Support implementation of department initiatives established by the Director of Comprehensive Planning.
21. Responsible for maintaining and promoting a safe working environment. Ensure employees complete all required training on time, maintain compliance with organizational requirements, and follow all safety protocols. Ensures employees maintain required certifications.
22. Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
Knowledge of:

• Advanced principles, practices, and methodologies of asset management, including asset lifecycle management, risk-based decision-making, and reliability-centered approaches
• Asset Management Plan (AMP) development, implementation, and maintenance practices
• Asset management principles and industry best practices applicable to public utilities such as ISO 55000
• Asset condition assessment, criticality analysis, reliability analysis, and Business Risk Exposure (BRE) methodologies
• Asset replacement planning, renewal forecasting, and capital investment prioritization techniques
• Wastewater treatment and transmission infrastructure systems, operations, maintenance practices, and asset performance considerations
• Capital planning processes and integration of asset replacement needs into Capital Expenditure Schedules (CES)
• Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) systems and administration
• Asset commissioning and decommissioning processes
• Performance measurement, reporting systems, dashboards, and analytical tools used to support asset management decision-making
• Information technology concepts related to software implementation, business requirements development, systems integration, and data management
• Public-sector procurement, contract administration, consultant management, and budget administration principles
• Program and project management principles
• Leadership, employee development, supervision, performance management, workforce planning, and succession planning principles
• Change management and continuous improvement me