Abhi Arora

• Manage the sewer and water network reliability planning portfolio of $250M, including preparing briefs, engaging consultants, and handing over projects to delivery teams.
• Oversee the day-to-day operations of a large team, fostering their development into leaders in asset management.
• Develop and maintain a teamwork plan, outlining resource allocation, budgets, and alignment with South East Water’s objectives, Liveable Water Solutions Group targets, and Distribution Solutions Branch priorities.
• Report on performance metrics to the group manager, covering areas such as personnel, safety, financials, team behavior, industry engagement, culture, and project delivery.
• Ensure accurate and timely financial reporting through tasks like month-end reconciliations and forecasting, maintaining portfolio forecasts within oracle.
• Lead the development, periodic updates, and maintenance of sewer and water network reliability asset management plans in collaboration with other south east water business units, such as the service delivery group.
• Develop and maintain a risk-based asset renewal strategy for the sewer network, ensuring compliance with ISO 55001.
• Establish an asset risk profile using consistent frameworks for failure likelihood and criticality. Maintain asset risk models that detail gross risk, risk controls, and planned treatments, aligned with South East Water’s corporate asset register and risk framework.
• Ensure accurate and timely input of asset risk and solution data into south east water’s asset information systems.
• Define the scope and timing of sewer and water network asset renewal projects for inclusion in south east water’s corporate plan and price submission.
• Incorporate safety into reliability planning, ensuring that plans and solutions prioritize safe construction and management practices.
• Manage investigations and analyses necessary for asset planning and solution development.
• Analyse asset performance and failure data to incorporate learnings into future planning.
• Provide leadership in the ongoing development and updates of roadmaps and asset lifecycle management plans.
• Collaborate with other disciplines to integrate their requirements into reliability asset management planning.
• Work with internal stakeholders to develop solutions, scope projects, and prioritize efforts to meet growth, service level, and reliability objectives efficiently.
• Manage the sewer and water network reliability planning portfolio of $250M, including preparing briefs, engaging consultants, and handing over projects to delivery teams.
• Ensure thorough stakeholder consultation during the planning phase to secure organizational alignment before implementation.
• Lead the evaluation and prioritization of risk mitigation strategies and capital investments through risk assessment and value engineering.
• Provide guidance to design and construction project managers.
• Oversee south east water’s involvement in asset management reliability R&D projects, advising on prioritization, proof of concept, pilot trials, and implementation readiness.
• Collaborate with sewer growth planning functions to integrate flow gauge data and hydraulic modelling into reliability planning.
• Provide input on asset reliability requirements across various domains, including maintenance, strategic asset management, intelligent water networks, digital utilities, and integrated water management.
• Maintain and enhance asset risk models and reliability planning specifications, improving processes, procedures, and documentation in coordination with other planning managers.
• Optimise water and sewer systems to meet service levels while maintaining system integrity.
• Represent Southeast Water in metropolitan working groups to facilitate coordinated planning and share best practices across organizations.
• Respond to ministerial inquiries and directives as required.
• Contribute to the development and refinement of data management systems to support asset reliability needs.
• Provide technical expertise to treatment plant operations, with additional advice on sewer network odour management, and trade waste.

• Delivered individual projects by managing internal and external specialist resources effectively.
• Planned and executed a portfolio of dam safety studies, ensuring adherence to time, cost, and quality objectives.
• Prioritized personnel safety in all activities while demonstrating consistent safe behavior.
• Oversaw project delivery from needs analysis to completion, implementing optimal solutions within specified parameters.
• Generated accurate forecasts and provided timely reporting on project status, risks, and performance metrics.
• Captured and managed project risks and issues throughout the entire project lifecycle.
• Negotiated and managed contracts for consulting and construction services essential for project execution.
• Facilitated stakeholder engagement and public consultations to secure necessary approvals promptly.

• Oversaw MI's corporate and statutory planning, ensuring compliance with reporting obligations.
• Accountable for asset strategy and performance assessment, managing integrated delivery network.
• Managed engineers and data scientists to implement tools ensuring requirements coverage and visibility on program progress.
• Led capital program with commercial professionals, project managers, and engineers to drive project success.
• Prepared long-term asset management plans, incorporating growth scenarios and risk management strategies.
• Pioneered development of asset class-specific performance measures, identifying improvement projects and assessing initiative effectiveness.
• Developed capital project planning process, including preparation of one-, three-, and twenty-year capital expenditure forecasts.
• Reviewed and updated automation strategy and asset management policy to meet evolving company needs.

• Managed asset management and reporting requirements, including analysis and modeling of service standard scenarios.
• Developed long-term asset management and risk management plans to mitigate potential issues.
• Oversaw engineering projects and modifications for limestone mining operations and lime plant.
• Led capital program while providing guidance throughout Front-End Process, supporting commissioning and project defect management.
• Acted as Nominated Statutory Function under NSW mines/petroleum WH&S Act & Regulation.
• Provided technical expertise to production teams on various electrical and operational aspects.
• Ensured safe operations to maintain compliance with company standards and government legislation.
• Implemented Enterprise Asset Management across Boral cement sites to enhance operational efficiency.

• Developed long-term asset management and risk management plans.
• Ensured compliance with technical, safety, and operational standards for assigned projects.
• Managed capital projects from feasibility through commissioning and detailed design.
• Led a team of specialists on safety, reliability, engineering standards, and improvement initiatives.
• Maintained electrical, instrument, and control systems in validated state as required.
• Provided innovative design solutions for new plant setups and existing plant optimization.
• Applied Good Engineering Practices in design, installation, and maintenance of control systems.
• Utilised technology solutions to enhance support for production teams and improve response times.

Conducted feasibility design for Tailings and Brine Management, generating specifications and control philosophy.

• Developed cost estimates for process control, safety, IT, optical network, CCTV, and security systems.
• Executed field inspections to resolve on-site challenges effectively.
• Prepared enquiry packages and vendor evaluation reports for project components.
• Led project kickoff meetings and actively contributed to engineering HAZOP reviews.
• Upgraded Ranger power station design by integrating advanced Brine Concentrator control systems.