Advancing asset management beyond the assets team has often been a difficult task. What we have done here at Manningham is to utilise the IPWEA pathways program and train up staff outside the assets team.
What we did, Through the steering committee I put the argument that one person from each asset rich team should do the Professional Certificate in Asset Management Planning, as the assignment is to write an Asset Management Plan, the candidates would write the AMP for their particular asset class or type. This would then couple with the service plans they also need to write. Five people were nominated, Parks, Drainage and Roads along with the graduate office and the new Asset Management Finance Officer. Only two of these people have an engineering background.
For the course two of the existing assets team have done the Pro Cert so will act as mentors and we will run a tutorial once a week to support the candidates, when the assignment is done it will go up to management for inclusion as an adopted AMP.
The project only commenced in April25 and the end results won’t occur until June25. What we are hoping to achieve is a better understanding of AM across the teams, completed AMP’s done by those who manage the service, an integration with service planning and more specifically ownership of that plan.
It opens up an opportunity to develop a decentralised model of asset management where service managers will be responsible for the service plan, maintenance plan and asset management plan, the assets team will assist in the writing and maintain quality control, moving Asset Management out of its silo and embedding it into the organisation. This paper will present the results of this exercise.