Description

About the Role
GPE is seeking an experienced Asset Operations Manager to lead the operational management of our growing Australian Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) portfolio.
This is a senior owner-side role responsible for ensuring our operating assets are safe, reliable, compliant and commercially optimised throughout their operational life.
The role will provide portfolio-level oversight of asset performance, O&M; contractors, OEMs and Long-Term Service Agreements (LTSAs), operational expenditure, outages, lifecycle planning, risk and operational governance.
Importantly, this is not a hands-on engineering or maintenance management position. The Asset Operations Manager will be supported by contracted site teams, technical specialists and dedicated engineering capability. The role is responsible for ensuring those parties perform, challenging them where required, protecting GPE's contractual and commercial position, and making informed owner-side decisions.
As our BESS portfolio continues to grow, the successful candidate will also play an significant role in developing a scalable Asset Operations model and shaping our longer-term operational and internalisation strategy.
Requirements

About You
You will bring significant experience in asset operations, asset management or operational management within BESS, renewable energy, power generation or major electrical infrastructure. You will ideally have:
• demonstrated experience managing large-scale operational energy or infrastructure assets;
• strong experience administering O&M; contracts and/or OEM service agreements;




• sound commercial and contractual judgement;
• working knowledge of operational compliance frameworks, including NER obligations and SOCI/CIRMP requirements, with the ability to govern specialist delivery and regulatory reporting interfaces;
• experience managing asset-performance KPIs, operational budgets and contractor performance;
• experience working with electricity Trading teams on availability, outages, dispatch constraints and operational reporting;
• experience with warranty, defect and lifecycle management;
• a strong understanding of HV electrical infrastructure and operational safety frameworks;
• sufficient technical capability to interrogate asset-performance information and effectively challenge contractors, OEMs and engineering specialists;
• strong risk-management and operational-governance capability;
• experience coordinating planned and unplanned outages;
• excellent stakeholder-management skills across technical, commercial and executive interfaces;
• the ability to translate complex operational issues into clear recommendations and decisions for senior management;
• working knowledge of NEM operations, including dispatch,



bidding and rebidding, FCAS and AEMO requirements, sufficient to understand how availability and outages affect market outcomes; and
• the ability to make fast, commercially informed decisions with incomplete information, including under on-call conditions.

Experience operating utility-scale BESS assets within the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) will be highly regarded.
An engineering, technical, commercial or asset-management qualification is desirable; however, we are principally seeking someone with the operational leadership, commercial capability and judgement required to manage a significant and growing asset portfolio.

Leadership Profile
This role will suit someone who thinks and acts like an asset owner. You will be expected to take accountability for outcomes without unnecessarily taking over the responsibilities of our contractors and service providers.
You will be commercially astute, technically credible and comfortable challenging both internal and external stakeholders. You will be capable of moving between asset-performance data, contractual obligations, technical risks, budgets and strategic portfolio decisions while maintaining focus on the overall performance and value of the assets.
You should also be comfortable establishing systems and ways of working rather than simply inheriting them. As the portfolio grows, the Asset Operations Manager will have a significant opportunity to influence how GPE operates and manages its assets over the long term.

📌 Asset Operations Manager (BESS) (Australia)
🏢 Equis
📍 Australia