Scott Yates

Scott is our Regional Manager, West Coast and a highly qualified asset management professional with over 30 years of experience across the entire asset life cycle, ranging from the earliest stages of requirements specification to acquisition projects to in-service engineering, logistics and maintenance management. Extensive experience in the highly regulated, safety critical environment of military aviation, supplemented by broad industry experience in six years as a consultant, a further six years in asset management at a major electrical utility, and two years in engineering asset management with a major government port.

Areas of specialist expertise

• Asset management
• Maintenance program optimisation
• Operational readiness
• Maintenance management
• Engineering management
• Reliability Improvement
• Human Factors and maintenance error management
• Tendering and contracting for reliability/maintainability goals
• Delivery of asset management, maintenance and reliability training
• Risk management
• Maintenance outsourcing
• Contractor management and administration
• Spares optimisation
• Systems safety

Industry specialisations

• Mining & Resources
• Energy & Utilities
• Mining Services
• Defence & Government
• Transport, Ports & Infrastructure
• Agriculture
• Manufacturing & Industrial
• Education & Research

Published Papers

• Australian Defence Standard for Bayesian Reliability Demonstration – Proceedings of the 2008
  Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium – January 2008
• A Practical Approach to Bayesian Reliability Demonstration – Proceedings of the 2007 Annual
  Reliability and Maintainability Symposium – January 2007
• (with Mosleh, A.) – A Bayesian Approach to Reliability Demonstration for Aerospace Systems –
  Proceedings of the 2006 Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium – January 2006

Conference Presentations

• Asset Management Plans – Less is More – AMPEAK 2016, Adelaide – April 2016
• Management System Synergies – Linking ISO 55000 and ISO 9000 – AMPEAK 2016, Adelaide – April
  2016
• Measuring Cost, Performance and Risk in Asset Management – AMPEAK 2015, Sydney – May 2015
• Building Asset Management Capability in a Budget-Constrained Organisation – AMPEAK 2015, Sydney
  – May 2015
• Building Plant Operational Efficiency & Profitability Through ISO 55000 Workshop – TPM 2015,
  Melbourne – March 2015
• Driving Improvement with ISO 55000 – IHEA WA State Conference, Perth – September 2014

Professional experience

• Assetivity PTY LTD (2026 – current)

  Regional Manager, West Coast

• Fremantle Ports (May 2023 – Dec 2025)

  Manager Asset Performance

• Western Power (Mar 2017 – April 2023)

  Asset Performance Modelling Manager

• Assetivity PTY LTD (Nov 2010 – Mar 2017)

  Principal Consultant

• University of Western Australia (Mar 2017 – Present)

  Adjunct Associate Professor/Contract Lecturer

• ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE (1997 – 2010)

  Senior Maintenance Manager