About the Company
At Transgrid, we play a crucial role in delivering safe, reliable, and sustainable energy to millions of Australians. Operating over 13,000 km of high-voltage transmission lines and 134 substations across NSW and the ACT, we connect electricity generators to the distribution network powering homes, businesses, and communities. As Australia accelerates its energy transition, the work we do has never been more significant.
About the role
As Senior Asset Intelligence Lead, you will lead the Asset Intelligence function to deliver trusted asset data, analytics, reporting and decision-ready insights. Working across Asset Management, Delivery, Finance and IT, you will help optimise asset risk, cost, reliability and performance while supporting maintenance strategy, portfolio management and capital investment decisions.
What you’ll do
- Set the strategic direction for asset intelligence while building the people, governance and digital capability needed to turn complex data into practical business outcomes.
- Lead and develop the Asset Intelligence team, setting priorities across asset data, analytics, reporting and information management.
- Implement the Asset Information Strategy, data roadmap and governance frameworks to improve the quality, accessibility and use of asset information.
- Deliver predictive analytics, performance frameworks and decision-ready insights that support maintenance, investment, regulatory and portfolio decisions.
- Partner across Asset Management, Delivery, Finance and IT to translate complex asset and business challenges into fit-for-purpose analytical solutions.
- Drive modern capabilities including business intelligence, automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning and digital twins.
About you
You are a strategic and collaborative people leader who can connect engineering, asset management and data to turn complex information into practical business insights. Curious by nature, you understand how enterprise data ecosystems are governed and how trusted analytics can support better asset decisions. You are confident leading a technical function, growing team capability and influencing stakeholders across technical, operational and executive environments.
What you’ll bring
- Degree qualification in Engineering, Commerce, Economics or an equivalent discipline.
- Extensive experience in infrastructure investment, portfolio management, asset management, analytics or a related field, ideally within utilities or another asset-intensive environment.
- Strong understanding of enterprise data ecosystems, data modelling, governance, data quality, business intelligence and performance reporting.
- Working knowledge of statistical modelling, predictive analytics, machine learning, modern cloud data platforms and enterprise analytics ecosystems.
- Confident people leadership and strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to work across technical, operational and executive stakeholders.
Why this role?
The energy transition depends on better decisions across the asset lifecycle. In this role, you will lead the function that turns complex asset data into trusted insights, helping Transgrid strengthen reliability, optimise investment and improve how the network performs. You will solve complex challenges, build capability across the business and shape decisions that matter today and stand for decades.
Our Leadership principles
At Transgrid, our Leadership Principles—Courage, Care, Clarity, and Connection—form the foundation of how we lead. Courage means embracing challenges and doing what’s right. Care focuses on leading with heart, valuing people as the core of our organisation. Clarity ensures teams understand success and their impact, while Connection links individuals to our purpose and strategy while fostering strong relationships among team members, customers, and partners.
Recognition & Reward
We believe in providing our people personal, professional and social benefits so that they can deliver their best work every day. Employees have access to a range of corporate discounts across retail, utilities, travel, health & wellbeing etc, as well as novated leasing options, flexible workplace policies, 20 weeks paid parental leave and more!
Applications close on the 5th of November 2026 - Please note, our vacancy close dates may be subject to change, and we will assess applications as they are received.
Join us in shaping the future of Australia's energy network. Apply today and be a key part of the transition to a sustainable energy future.
Transgrid is committed to Health and Safety, the Environment, Equal Employment Opportunity, Diversity and Ethical Practices. All applicants are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to these areas.
We do not accept agency introductions as Transgrid operates a direct sourcing model.