Are you someone who loves getting into the numbers, challenging the status quo and finding smarter, more cost-effective ways of doing things?

I'm working with a major infrastructure services organisation that's looking for a commercially minded, highly analytical Maintenance Performance & Optimisation Specialist to help improve the performance, reliability and cost efficiency of critical water and wastewater infrastructure across Southeast Queensland.

This isn't your typical maintenance management role. We're not necessarily looking for someone who has spent their career managing maintenance crews or delivering large capital projects. We're looking for someone who can get underneath the data, understand what's driving maintenance costs, identify inefficiencies and turn those insights into meaningful operational improvements.

If you're brilliant with Excel, naturally inquisitive, commercially astute and enjoy solving complex operational problems, I'd love to speak with you.

What will you be doing? You'll work closely with maintenance, asset management, operational and commercial teams to analyse how maintenance programs are performing and identify opportunities to improve them.

Your responsibilities will include

- Analysing maintenance expenditure, asset performance, operational trends and financial data to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Reviewing existing preventative and reactive maintenance programs, challenging inefficiencies and recommending smarter approaches.
- Building and improving Excel-based models, dashboards, reporting frameworks and performance metrics.
- Identifying opportunities to reduce maintenance costs without compromising safety, compliance or asset reliability.
- Supporting annual maintenance budgets,



forecasting and Total Cost of Maintenance (TCOM) planning.
- Working with planners, schedulers, engineers and operational leaders to understand what's working, what isn't and why.
- Translating complex datasets into practical recommendations that influence operational and commercial decisions.
- Tracking improvement initiatives and demonstrating measurable financial and operational benefits.

What am I looking for? First and foremost, you need to be highly analytical.

You'll be comfortable spending a significant amount of your time working with spreadsheets, interrogating data and identifying patterns that others might miss.

Ideally, you'll bring:

- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills – essential. You should be genuinely confident working with complex datasets, formulas, pivot tables, lookups and analytical models.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to turn data into actionable recommendations.
- Experience analysing maintenance programs, operational performance, asset management or infrastructure costs.
- A commercial mindset and an ability to identify opportunities to improve efficiency and reduce expenditure.
- Confidence challenging existing processes and influencing stakeholders to adopt better ways of working.
- Strong communication skills – you can explain what the numbers mean to people who don't necessarily live in spreadsheets.




- Experience working within water, wastewater, utilities, engineering, infrastructure or another asset-intensive environment.

Experience with maintenance planning, asset management systems, performance reporting or continuous improvement would be highly regarded. You don't need to come from an electrical or mechanical trade background.

I'm more interested in your ability to analyse information, ask the right questions and deliver improvements than the trade you originally qualified in.

Why is this chance worth considering? You'll be joining an established infrastructure organisation responsible for maintaining essential assets that communities rely on every day.

More importantly, this is an opportunity to have a genuine influence on how a major maintenance operation performs.

You'll have the opportunity to:

- Work with complex, real-world maintenance and financial data.
- Identify and deliver improvements that have a measurable commercial impact.
- Influence maintenance strategy, planning and operational decision-making.
- Collaborate with experienced engineering, operational and commercial professionals.
- Build your career within a major infrastructure services business with long-term opportunities.

Interested? If you're the sort of person who looks at a spreadsheet and immediately starts asking, "Why are we spending this much, and surely there's a better way?", we should have a conversation. I'm particularly interested in speaking with candidates from maintenance analytics, asset performance, infrastructure operations, commercial analysis and continuous improvement backgrounds.

Apply through SEEK or reach out to me directly for a confidential conversation.

📌 Maintenance Performance Specialist (Brisbane)
🏢 Aspirante
📍 Brisbane