Head of Power Engineering Solutions - Perth, WA, Australia

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 have an exciting opportunity for a Head of Power Engineering Solutions to join our Infrastructure Delivery team in Perth.

Reporting to the General Manager, Infrastructure Engineering, you’ll play a key role in shaping and delivering APA’s growing power portfolio. Leading a talented, high performing team, you’ll provide strategic and technical leadership across the development and delivery of reliable, efficient and sustainable power solutions, from early concept development through to commissioning support.

You’ll lead APA’s power engineering capability, with accountability for engineering strategy, design development and execution. This is an opportunity to bring together your technical expertise and leadership experience to help shape how we deliver power solutions and support APA’s continued growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and grow APA’s Power Engineering Solutions capability, setting the strategic direction for technical excellence and innovation while building a high performing, customer focused and commercially minded engineering team with the capability to support APA’s future growth.

• Own engineering governance, assurance and technical standards across the Power Engineering Solutions portfolio, ensuring projects meet regulatory requirements, industry standards and APA’s engineering management framework.

• Provide senior technical leadership across project development and delivery, including engineering design, technical risk and the negotiation of key design, engineering, equipment and construction contracts to achieve strong technical and commercial outcomes.

• Lead grid connection strategy and execution across generation and load projects, from connection applications and Generator Performance Standard negotiations with AEMO, NSPs and jurisdictional authorities through to R1 and R2 milestones.

• Work closely across development, project delivery, pipelines, approvals, procurement and operations while representing APA with customers, industry partners and forums, bringing insight on emerging technologies and market developments to help shape future opportunities.

Your background

• You will have a relevant tertiary qualification in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems or a related engineering discipline, supported by significant experience across power generation, power systems, grid connections or the broader energy sector.

• You will bring a strong understanding of power project development and delivery, including grid connection processes and Generator Performance Standards, ideally gained through exposure to AEMO, NSPs, SWIS, NWIS or similar electricity networks.

• You will have demonstrated experience leading and developing multidisciplinary engineering teams, building organisational capability, mentoring technical leaders and creating a high-performance culture.

• You will bring strong technical expertise in engineering design, technical assessments, governance and documentation, with the ability to operate confidently within relevant regulatory, engineering and technical standards.

• You will have the ability to build trusted relationships and influence across a broad stakeholder group, working collaboratively with customers, consultants, vendors and multidisciplinary teams to deliver practical, commercially focused outcomes.

About the Team

The Infrastructure Engineering team is part of APA's Infrastructure Delivery division and supports the development and delivery of growth projects across Australia.

With a strong pipeline of on-grid and off-grid power projects, we are looking for an engineering leader who thrives in collaborative environments, enjoys working across multidisciplinary teams and is passionate about delivering positive outcomes for customers, communities and the energy sector.

Our team brings together specialists in power systems, grid connections, generation technologies and hybrid systems. You'll join a supportive and highly capable group of professionals committed to delivering reliable, efficient and sustainable energy solutions. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to Australia's energy transition and help shape the future of power generation through wind, solar, battery energy storage and thermal technologies.

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.