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Infrastructure asset management professional (level 7)

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Information about Infrastructure asset management professional (level 7)

Lead the asset management function within an organisation.

• Knowledge, skills and behaviours:
  View knowledge, skills and behaviours

  Knowledge

  • Communication and influencing techniques and strategies, both written and oral.
  • Decision making principles and techniques used in Infrastructure asset management.
  • Learning and development strategies, including personal and professional development.
  • Change management models and the link to organisational culture.
  • How culture and organisation structure impact the delivery of required performance.
  • Asset management standards such as ISO55000, British Standard Institute (BSI), Publicly Available Specification (PAS) 55.
  • Stakeholder mapping and engagement approaches.
  • Asset life cycle activities such as acquire/create, operate, maintain, and renew/dispose.
  • Sustainability development goals and impact on asset investments.
  • Principles of maintenance and reliability engineering.
  • Portfolio management models and approaches.
  • Procurement and supply chain strategies and delivery management.
  • The use of horizon scanning techniques in the infrastructure asset management environment.
  • Performance monitoring of asset life cycle activities.
  • Techniques to critically analyse asset management non-conformities such as causes and effects; Failure Mode Event/Effects Critically Analysis (FMEA/FMECA), and Root cause analysis.
  • The application of contingency plans in the infrastructure asset management environment.
  • Risk management and its application to infrastructure asset management: risk assessment, quantification, mitigation, and impact.
  • The application of system engineering and infrastructure models, tools, and frameworks e.g., Defra 4R’s approach to resilience.
  • The importance of prioritisation and multi criteria optimisation techniques and tools (prescriptive analytics).
  • The application of decision-making frameworks.
  • Application of uncertainty analysis on outcomes and outputs.
  • Understanding of balance sheets, profit and loss, and the difference between companies.
  • Asset and project costing and valuation techniques; cost estimation (maintenance, operation, renewal, disposal), depreciation, whole life costing, and social, environmental, safety and reputational cost.
  • The requirements for an integrated infrastructure asset and investment management enterprise-wide approach and the high-level user case.
  • Information technology systems and processes such as asset registers, work management systems, word processing, spreadsheets, email, presentation.
  • Critical data analysis and interpretation techniques; and data presentation techniques (charts, diagrams, and tables).
  • Range of asset and investment management tools.
  • The sources and types of funding for infrastructure asset management activities.
  • Problem solving techniques and their application.
  • Regulatory, legislative and policy/standards requirements such as data protection, cyber security, Environmental emissions limits, Pressure Systems Safety Regulations (PSSR), Construction, Design and Management Regulations (CDM), and Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH).
  • Principles of policy and strategic development in Infrastructure asset management.
  • The different stages of projects including the principles of planning, scheduling, and sequencing.
  • The ways of managing, influencing, and controlling outcomes through the application of project management techniques.
  • Different, inclusive leadership styles and models, how to develop diverse teams and support people using coaching and mentoring.
  • Commissioning and facilitating research and development activities.

  Skills

  • Apply a consistent approach to asset risk management, risk assessed inspection, and maintenance programmes.
  • Use quantitative methods in the research, critical analysis and interpretation of complex data.
  • Adapt communication technique when communicating with others.
  • Specify and influence data and information requirements.
  • Use decision making principles and techniques in the infrastructure asset management environment.
  • Optimise and prioritise projects and programmes in a portfolio of work in the infrastructure asset management environment.
  • Lead and manage the optimum delivery of life cycle activities and resources.
  • Apply systems engineering models, tools, and frameworks within the infrastructure asset management environment.
  • Develop and evaluate options within a decision-making framework.
  • Monitor and report on the performance of asset and infrastructure asset management.
  • Procure, build, and manage relationships with the supply chain.
  • Lead, commission, and facilitate research and development activities, innovation, change and organisational development.
  • Apply leadership skills.
  • Develop and promote proposals and business cases.
  • Identify and manage stakeholder needs and expectations.
  • Identify learning requirements and improvement opportunities for self and others.
  • Lead and encourage collaboration across the asset management life cycle stages.
  • Implement and create infrastructure asset management strategies and plans.
  • Challenge and provide feedback: colleagues and stakeholders.
  • Use horizon scanning techniques in the asset management environment.
  • Manage team resources to deliver the infrastructure asset management resource strategy.
  • Create long term investment plans aligned with organisational objectives.
  • Create, implement, and monitor Infrastructure asset management policy and strategic plans.
  • Manage the balance between quality, costs, and time.
  • Apply contingency planning in Infrastructure asset management plans.
  • Demonstrate fiscal rigour in Infrastructure asset management plans.
  • Use project management and planning techniques. Monitor progress towards project goals and identify corrective actions.

  Behaviours

  • Takes accountability and ownership of their tasks and workload.
  • Role models collaborative and inclusive working across organisational and cultural boundaries, driving diversity.
  • Seeks continuous professional development opportunities for self and wider team.
  • Acts in a professional manner with integrity and confidentiality.
  • Champions infrastructure asset management and influences its development.
  • Committed to compliance with legislation, asset management standards and company policies.
• Apprenticeship category (sector): Engineering and manufacturing
• Qualification level: 7; Equal to master’s degree
• Course duration: 24 months
• Maximum funding: £20,000 ; Maximum government funding for ; apprenticeship training and assessment costs.

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