The Opportunity

At APA, our purpose is to secure Australia’s energy future. We’re not doing it alone. We’re doing it with our customers and communities as Australia’s energy infrastructure partner, a role our unique experience and expertise positions us to play.

We now have an exciting opportunity available for a Manager Compliance & Assurance – Gas West to join us in our Gas Operations West team in Perth on a full time permanent basis.

Reporting to the Head of Asset Operations WA, you will play a key role in ensuring regulatory, safety, environmental and statutory obligations are met across WA and NT. The role oversees audits, regulatory reporting, risk management and regulator engagement, while providing strategic compliance advice and driving a culture of accountability, governance and continuous improvement across Gas West operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage regulatory compliance, statutory reporting and regulator engagement.
• Lead and maintain the Gas West assurance program and compliance framework.
• Coordinate audits, inspections, assurance reviews and compliance assessments.
• Lead the closure of compliance actions, non-conformances and regulatory findings.
• Provide assurance, risk and compliance advice to operational leaders and stakeholders.
• Monitor regulatory and legislative changes and drive compliance improvements.

Your background

• Regulatory compliance and governance management.
• Assurance planning, auditing and control effectiveness reviews.
• Risk management and compliance monitoring.
• Stakeholder and regulator relationship management.
• Strong analytical, reporting and problem-solving capability.
• Leadership, influencing and continuous improvement skills.

About the Team

Gas Operations West is responsible for the safe and reliable operation of gas transmission assets across WA and NT in an efficient and cost-effective manner to enable APA to achieve its business strategy and goals, extract maximum value from its assets, and deliver value for its customers.

Working across a diverse portfolio of assets, including transmission pipelines, facilities and remote infrastructure, the team combines operational expertise, technical capability and strong stakeholder engagement to deliver outstanding outcomes for customers, communities and regulators. We manage everything from routine maintenance and operational response through to major outages, improvement initiatives and asset integrity activities.

To help APA Securing Australia’s Energy Future, the Operations teams focus is on Our People, Operational Excellence and Creating Value. We are also making great strides towards achieving our net zero ambition, enabling APA to be world class in energy solutions.

This is an exciting time for the team, we need people who are courageous, nimble, and ready to make an impact.

Working at APA

At APA, we’re committed to fostering a safe and inclusive workplace where you can achieve your best.

We offer targeted career development programs designed to accelerate your career, competitive remuneration, employee benefits, flexible working arrangements, and wellbeing initiatives are all part of what we’ll offer you. Our inclusive parental leave policy offers 18 weeks of leave, including superannuation, to support parents at work and in life.

We employ around 2,000 people across Australia and are committed to building a high-performing, customer-focused organisation where everyone feels safe, valued, and trusted to perform at their best.

We are APA

At APA, we’re taking on one of Australia’s greatest challenges:​ the energy transition.​ We’re not doing it alone. We’re doing it as Australia’s energy infrastructure partner, a role our unique experience and expertise positions us to play.​

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We proudly own, operate and manage a diverse $20 billion portfolio of assets which deliver essential services to communities and customers across Australia. And we own more than 15,000 kilometres of gas pipelines which deliver energy to households and businesses across every corner of Australia.

As the partner of choice in delivering infrastructure solutions for the energy transition, we’re focused on bundled remote grid energy solutions, electricity and gas transmission, and future energy, including hydrogen and carbon capture and storage.

Our customer focused approach means we understand our customers and offer them reliable, innovative, and cost-effective energy solutions that support their decarbonisation ambitions.

We are committed to securing Australia’s energy future by delivering infrastructure solutions for Australia’s energy transition and supporting the decarbonisation ambitions of our customers and communities.

Join our team and be part of securing Australia’s energy future. We’d love to hear from you.

APA is an equal opportunity employer. The safety, health and wellbeing our people, community and environment a priority. We embrace diversity in our people to ensure our workforce is representative of the communities that we operate in.

Applicants must be eligible to work in Australia to be considered.

This vacancy works with critical APA data, systems or infrastructure and candidates are subject to background vetting (including Police checks) before & during employment.

APA Group will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies.

We will contact successful candidates after the closing date.