Associate Asset Advisor (Professional Engineer)
Winnipeg, MB
Manitoba Hydro is consistently recognized as one of Manitoba's Top Employers! We are a leader among energy companies in
North America, recognized for providing highly reliable service and exceptional customer satisfaction. Join our team of Manitoba's
best as we continue to build a company that champions safety, supports innovation, and delivers on our commitment to customer
service - while actively fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace reflective of the communities we serve.
Great Benefits
- Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.
- Defined-benefit pension plan for long-term financial security.
- Nine-day work cycle, typically resulting in every other Monday off to support a balanced approach to work, family life and
community.
Position Overview:
We are seeking an Associate Asset Advisor to join our Asset Lifecycle Management Department. Reporting to the Team Leads
and the Section Head, this role is responsible for coordinating asset lifecycle activities for assigned equipment and infrastructure,
maintaining asset inventory data, and supporting informed, risk-based decision-making across asset classes.
This position leverages engineering experience particularly in the design, maintenance, and lifecycle risk management of critical
electrical and mechanical equipment within industrial, manufacturing, or utility environments. The Associate Asset Advisor facilitates
input into asset investment planning, ensuring that asset requirements and associated risks are translated into clear,
evidence-based business cases.
Working within Manitoba Hydro's Asset Management System, the role partners with subject matter experts across operational areas
to evaluate, prioritize, and justify investment opportunities, while aligning project scope with corporate business objectives.
Additionally, the Associate Asset Advisor provides ongoing stewardship of asset class strategies, promotes asset management best
practices, and supports the optimization of asset performance and value across all energy streams.
Responsibilities:
- Minimize asset life cycle costs for prescribed levels of performance and risk by developing and maintaining whole life cost
models.
- Support the management of the asset needs inventory including vetting and prioritization of all incoming work to Asset
Management, and initiating new investments.
- Support the development of the Asset Management capital portfolio which includes determining investment scope,
alternatives and schedules.
- Support the execution of Asset Class Strategy Program activities by gathering input from Subject Matter Experts and
coordinating the completion of key deliverables.
- Facilitate project teams as the SME to evaluate all capital project alternatives with the Corporate Value Framework.
- Participate on project teams by facilitating a consistent and quantitative decision-making process in all phases of projects and
approvals, ensuring alignment with global objective and inclusion of evidence, review and recommendation of scope change
requests, and review of deficiency list and completion certificate.
- Assess the risks of failure of all assets by evaluating asset condition assessments and indexing to support asset decision
making.
- Support the quantitative decision-making process through collection of evidence, enlistment and interpretation of diverse
subject matter expert perspectives, defining the value of the decision using the Corporate Value Framework, appropriate
treatment of uncertainty and risk, and ensuring investment value is adequately and consistently identified.
- Support the development and provide input to business and Asset Management tools, best practices and processes through
liaising with internal and external asset management individuals, areas, and organizations and support implementation at a
divisional level.
- Maintain relations with Design, Operations, Maintenance, Project Management, Resource Planning, Plant, Finance, and other
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