Asset Management Plan Manager

The Role:

The Asset Management and Sustainability area is responsible for the development of asset policies, strategies and plans to determine the significant investment required into Ireland's infrastructure. The area drives investment and the Sustainability and Innovation agenda for the organisation and leads on Environmental Regulation and Compliance activities, ensuring the quality of water and wastewater is continuously monitored. The Asset Management function is responsible for strategic planning, prioritisation, and development of Uisce Éireann's Capital Works pipeline. The function plays a key role in promoting collaboration and co-ordination of activities across the three asset functions as well as providing environmental assessment and management expertise across Uisce Éireann.

The Asset Planning team is accountable for the timely delivery of essential, value for money water services Infrastructure for Ireland. The scope of the team's responsibility covers 5 main areas: Housing Growing, Capex Pipeline, Risk, Maintenance and Safety, Critical Assets and Leakage.

Reporting to the Asset Maintenance Planning Manager, the Asset Management Plan Manager will be responsible for development and implementation of preventative maintenance plans for inclusion in asset management plans in strategic alignment with Asset Class Strategies, Asset Health modelling, the Maintenance Management Strategy and long term capital upgrade strategies. This is a central role in Uisce Eireann delivering asset management transformation to drive a proactive maintenance management culture to deliver service resilience to our Customers and Communities.

The primary responsibility of the role is to establish initial data based preventative maintenance plans and to deliver an Asset Health modelling capability to drive the implementation of an enduring data driven annual asset management planning process. This role is central to the coordination of maintenance related work carried out by the three asset functions (Asset Management, Asset Operations and Infrastructure Delivery). The role will provide technical leadership to ensure that optimum value is derived from Uisce Eireann assets through a whole lifecycle approach to planning and delivery of capital maintenance spend in excess of €120m, rising to over €200m in the medium term and the establishment of a data driven routine planned maintenance delivery.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading a cross-functional team and developing UisceÉireann's national suite of datadriven Preventative Maintenance Plans as a coordinated input to Asset Management Plans including:

  • Asset Data and Condition Collection
  • Maintenance Strategies and Asset Class Strategy alignment and Information Governance
  • Asset Health Model Development with Preventative Maintenance Planning Outputs
  • Maintenance Investment/ Budget Process and Governance
  • 10 year asset maintenance plans including evolution and continual improvement to same
  • National roll-out strategy and implementation
• Development of long-term base maintenance funding plan (TOTEX)
• Responsible for establishing UisceÉireann's national approach to asset maintenance to be adopted as an integrated approach across the three asset functions, through collaboration with nominated personnel from each function. Responsible for presenting to all levels of the Business on this approach and getting broad buy-in across the three asset functions.
• Liaise and Collaborate with:
  • Asset Planning teams
  • Asset Strategy & Sustainability
  • Asset Operations
  • Infrastructure Delivery
  • Asset Intelligence
  • Technical Standard Specialist
• Assess the current risk levels of UisceÉireann in its inherited civil, mechanical, electrical and ICA assets, based on a systematic approach.
• Manage the definition of any future asset performance risk requirements to be adopted by UisceÉireann, and support their interpretation of plans and strategies.
• Ensure that all asset investigations are progressed in a timely and visible way and identify strategies to mitigate any risks to UisceÉireann.
• Proactively identify under-performing assets and progress appropriate definition and prioritisation of interventions as part of the investment planning process and inform the approach to capital maintenance.
• Ensure all new asset maintenance requirements are captured and built into appropriate asset management systems, working closely with counterparts from Asset Intelligence and Data Governance.
• Set and manage risk standards to achieve appropriate levels of risks, in line with the company objectives.
• Develop a risk management framework that encompasses the development of risk mitigation strategies, policies, procedures and standards relating to asset performance to be adopted by UisceÉireann and provide advice and support to the business to ensure its effective adopting.
• Actively research and seek industry best practice on asset management, providing feedback on latest industry developments within own area via company-wide reports and presentations.
• Contribute to achieving the objectives and targets of the Asset Management Directorate.
• Perform other such duties in relation to work and asset management as may be required.

General Duties and Responsibilities

• Collaboration with key internal stakeholders across the UÉ business.
• Responsible for promoting and delivering health and safety commitments across UÉ and its supply chain, reinforcing positive behaviours and delivering health and safety objectives and requirements to the highest industry standards.
• Support the delivery of the Uisce Éireann Transformation Programme, driving results required within the Directorate and supporting organisation-wide objectives.
• Conducts duties and responsibilities in accordance with Uisce Éireann's Information Security policies, standards, processes and controls to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of UÉ business information and delivery of critical services, in accordance with the NIS Directive and any other relevant cybersecurity regulation.
• Other duties as required.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Relevant third level qualification or accreditation e.g. Bachelor's Degree in Quantity Surveying, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, Business Management or related area is desirable.
• A minimum of 7 years' experience in the water, utilities or similar industries is desirable and or relevant experience.
• Demonstrated leadership ability, proactive development, motivation and engagement of staff to deliver customer-focused objectives that enhance service delivery.
• Challenge and influence poor customer service and practice and oversee any change management initiatives.
• Address poor practice and encourage cooperation and open discussion to achieve common goals.
• Demonstrated experience influencing an environment of open, honest communication while upholding high ethical standards.
• Proven track record of facilitating continuous improvement initiatives within a team.
• Demonstrated experience in seeking ways to improve safety and wellbeing and challenging any unsafe practices.

The closing date for receipt of applications for this vacancy is 24/06/2026.

Please note that applications submitted after this closing date will not be accepted.

Please be advised that if successful you will be placed on the salary range based on your skills and experience. Please note the Market reference point (midpoint) of the range is generally the upper end of the offer where someone is deemed to be fully competent to take on the duties of the role, and leaves room for the employee to progress through the pay range as their experience develops further.

Uisce Éireann is an equal opportunities employer.

We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive place of work and have a robust strategy and framework called ibelong to enable this. We are an equal opportunity employer and through our recruitment process we welcome and encourage applications from interested and suitably qualified individuals regardless of gender, age, racial or ethnic origin, membership of the traveller community, religion or beliefs, family or civil status, sexual orientation/gender identity or disability.