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 Plant Manager – Diamantina Power Facility to join us in our Operations & Maintenance team in Mt Isa on a full time permanent basis.
Reporting to the Head of Power Operations East, you will play a key role in overseeing the operations and maintenance activities for the Diamantina Power Facility. Manage a team of professionals, ensuring that the region’s energy infrastructure operates efficiently and safely, and maintenance activities are carried out effectively. You will be active of member of the Power Operation East Leadership Team, where you will play a pivotal role in connecting team’s activities and performance with delivering the APA strategy.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure that operations and maintenance activities are performed safely and compliant with relevant regulations.
- Provide leadership for the onsite teams, providing guidance and support as needed.
- Collaborate with APA offsite support teams to deliver high-performance assets.
- Monitor the performance of assets and implement improvements as necessary.
- Administer the deployment of the Operations funds and projects in line with annual budgets.
Your background
- Hold an Engineering Degree or Trade with further professional education.
- Strong knowledge of Power Assets operations and maintenance.
- Excellent leadership and team management skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
- Strong communication skills to coordinate operations and maintenance activities effectively.
About the Team
The Operations & Maintenance team exist to safely operate APA Power and Electricity Transmission assets in an efficient and cost-effective manner to enable APA to achieve its strategy and goals, extract maximum value from its assets, and deliver value for its customers.
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.
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.
Role closes on Sunday, 25 October 2026. Role Reference Number: JR5113APA Group will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies.
We will contact successful candidates after the closing date.