Asset Manager

About the role

At Cleco, we're not just powering lives—we're powering a cleaner, smarter future for Louisiana. With bold investments in innovative energy solutions, we’re transforming how we power our communities: smarter, cleaner, and more sustainable. This is a long-term commitment to our people and our communities because our future—and the future of generations to come—depends on it.

The Asset Manager-T&D is a Master/Expert level individual contributor responsible for overseeing strategic management, maintenance, and optimization of key transmission & distribution (T&D) assets. This role is strategic in nature, focusing on risk mitigation, long-term and near-term strategic planning, and ensuring the safety, efficiency, reliability, and sustainability of T&D assets over their entire lifecycle. The Asset Manager-T&D serves as the liaison between Asset Management, distribution operations, distribution engineering, ECPM, business planning, and financial performance functions, driving data-driven decision-making and optimized planning and investments.

Responsibilities

• Asset Lifecycle Management: Lead the development and execution of strategies and Asset Management Plans for the entire lifecycle of Cleco’s T&D assets, from procurement, installation, operation, and maintenance to end-of-life and eventual decommissioning or replacement. Utilize CMMS/EAMS and ERP data to drive decisions and maintenance and operational activity. Assist planners and schedulers with collecting historical labor, materials, and task lists to optimize maintenance job plans.
• Risk Management: Identify, evaluate, and mitigate risks related to asset failure, obsolescence, and compliance, ensuring that appropriate projects, maintenance activities, processes, programs, critical spares, and contingency plans are in place.
• Maintenance Planning: Oversee the creation and implementation of preventive maintenance strategies and schedules, ensuring assets operate at optimal performance levels and comply with regulatory standards to extend asset life. This includes related scope development for planned outages.
• Condition Monitoring & Performance Analysis: Utilize asset management systems and technology to monitor the health and performance of critical assets, identifying potential issues before they lead to costly failures or downtime. Promote the health of the asset lifecycle by utilizing condition assessments for further analysis and reporting.
• Budgeting & Cost Control: Develop and manage budgets, fully developed 5-year business plans, and long-range OPEX/CAPEX forecasts for asset-related activities, ensuring capital expenditures, maintenance costs, and resource allocation align with business goals while maximizing operational efficiency. Create business justifications for capital projects.
• Compliance & Regulatory Oversight: Ensure all assets comply with local, state, and federal regulations, industry standards, and safety protocols. Maintain accurate records for audits and inspections and stay up-to-date on industry standards and environmental, health, and safety regulations.
• Asset Data Management: Maintain and improve asset registers, tracking performance, service histories, and key metrics for each asset. Monitor the asset hierarchy and ensure assets and maintenance plans are correctly entered into SAP with appropriate detail. Build reports from quality data and performance indicators. Utilize Performance Dashboards to monitor work and key performance indicators such as PM compliance, Planning Performance, Backlog, Resource Utilization, PM:CM ratios, and data quality.
• Key Contracts: Lead or support the negotiation, management, optimization, and/or review of key contracts related to T&D maintenance as required.
• Team Collaboration & Leadership: Lead a cross-functional team including engineers, technicians, financial analysts, and contractors, fostering collaboration and communication to meet asset management objectives. Assist with the development and execution of training and change management activities.
• Continuous Improvement: Implement continuous improvement initiatives related to asset management practices, technologies, and process efficiencies for all major equipment and specific component maintenance strategies, leveraging industry best practices and innovative solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Engineering Technology with 10 years of applicable experience, or at least 15 years of applicable T&D experience in lieu of a degree.
• Strong T&D maintenance experience with emphasis on strategic thinking, risk management, and business planning.
• Excellent problem-solving, analysis, and decision-making abilities.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• In-depth knowledge of regulatory standards and safety requirements in the energy sector.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite; experience with enterprise asset management software is a plus.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate teams and collaborate effectively with other departments.
• Proficient in Power BI or Tableau for data analysis, report creation, and presentation.
• Experience with ELT programs such as Power Query is a plus.
• In-depth knowledge and experience with CMMS systems, Asset Management, and SAP.
• Comprehensive knowledge of equipment and systems found within Power Generation and T&D systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to communicate effectively with diverse audiences as well as vertically and horizontally in the organization.
• Proficiency in both technical and commercial aspects of T&D asset performance, with a strong understanding of asset performance, reliability, optimization, and customer affordability.
• Expertise in budgeting and financial management, including both operational expenditures (OPEX) and capital expenditures (CAPEX).

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in business or finance or relevant certificates is a plus but not required.
• Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP) or similar certifications is preferred.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or similar is preferred.

Skills

Behavioral

• Building Partnerships
• Leading Teams
• Business Acumen
• Communication
• Courage
• Building Self-Insight
• Driving for Results
• Energizing the Organization
• Driving Execution
• Building Trusting Relationships
• Driving Innovation
• Planning and Organizing
• Safety
• Establishing Strategic Direction

Technical

• Analytical skills
• Organizational skills
• Strategic Planning
• Project Tracking and Reporting
• Data Collection and Analysis
• Presentation Skills

May perform other duties as assigned.