About Us

APA is a leading Australian energy infrastructure business. We own and/or manage and operate a diverse, $22 billion portfolio of gas, electricity, solar and wind assets. Consistent with our purpose to strengthen communities through responsible energy, we deliver approximately half of the nation’s gas usage and connect Victoria with South Australia, Tasmania with Victoria and New South Wales with Queensland through our investments in electricity transmission assets. We are also one of the largest owners and operators of renewable power generation assets in Australia, with wind and solar projects across the country.

We employ more than 2,200 people across Australia and know that they are the key to our success. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive culture, where all our people feel safe, valued, and trusted to do their best every day.

The Opportunity

We now have an exciting opportunity available for a Process Safety Engineer to join our Engineering and Planning team in Melbourne, Brisbane, or Perth on 12 Month Fixed Term Contract.

Reporting to the Team Lead Process Safety Systems, you will play a key role in the practical application of the process safety strategy developed at APA as process safety systems of work (such as MoC, alarm, incident and investigation management), building upon and using the available process safety understanding and learning to uplift APA capability, and to engage APA operations with visible process safety leadership to ensure assets are operating within process safety risk targets.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the team to uplift and embed the process safety systems into APA operations to meet the process safety strategy requirements.
• Support the team to administer and coordinate the process safety systems of work and the process safety requirements in other safety management systems.
• Support the delivery of improvement initiatives and projects (such as the PHA Uplift Program) to improve availability and access to process safety information.
• Support the continuous improvement and reporting of process safety KPI’s.
• Work with key internal stakeholders to ensure the key barriers from the operational safety cases or process hazard assessments are consistently identified, always ready to operate and the risks managed when they are impaired.

Your background

• Tertiary qualification relating to Engineering with proven experience in process safety (Oil & Gas or Energy industry).
• Proven experience in working with various operating asset stakeholders and improving operations processes.
• Demonstrated contribution towards delivery of operational projects.
• Demonstrated knowledge of process safety management processes such as incident reporting and investigation.
• Experience in managing risk in energy operations including knowledge of the various process hazard analysis.
• Working knowledge of Environmental and Health and Safety legislative requirements and applicable energy industry standards.

About the Team

The Process Safety team is part of the wider Engineering and Planning team that support APA's Operation. The process safety team collaborate and partner with other teams to ensure that APA is operating within the target process risk. We now have an opportunity for an early career engineer wanting to further strengthen their understanding and application of process safety to join us on a 12 month fixed term contract.

Sound like your kind of career? We’d love to hear from you.

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

When you join us on this journey to success, you will have access to targeted career development programs, competitive remuneration, employee benefits, work–life balance and wellbeing programs. We are proud to offer hybrid working arrangements for our office based roles.

Role closes Sunday 7th of May. Role Reference number 4041.

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

APA Group is not accepting submissions from recruitment agencies for this role.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those under consideration will be contacted. Visit us on apa.com.au/careers