The Opportunity

At APA, our purpose is simple: to strengthen communities through responsible energy.

We now have an exciting opportunity available for a Purchasing & Expediting Officer to join our Infrastructure Delivery team in Perth, WA or Brisbane, QLD on a 12-Month Max-Term Contract.

Reporting to the Team Lead Purchasing & Expediting, you will play a key role in providing procurement, purchasing, expediting and logistics services to the Infrastructure Construction business unit.

Key Responsibilities

• Procurement, purchasing, expediting and logistics procedures, systems, tools and processes for the Infrastructure Construction business unit nationally as appropriate
• Procurement sourcing, negotiating and contracting, purchasing and expediting of direct categories for the Infrastructure Construction business unit
• Contractual and supplier relationship management support of direct category preferred vendor management for the Infrastructure Construction business unit
• Support of the Function and BU strategy
• Support of the development and deployment of Procurement policy and procedures

Your background

• Proven purchasing experience in a program/ multi-project environment, preferably in a similar industry
• Solid knowledge of purchasing of direct services services and goods for major construction projects and /or engineering works
• Sound levels of business and financial literacy and specialist user knowledge of finance systems (eg WorkDay or SAP)
• Ability to achieve targeted outcomes
• Ability to effectively communicate with others in a national multi-program/project environment
• Effective external stakeholder management skills in a national multi-program/project environment

Working at APA

At APA we’re committed to fostering a safe and inclusive workplace where you can achieve your best. We’ll provide you with access to targeted career development programs, competitive remuneration, employee benefits, flexible working arrangements, and wellbeing programs. We also have an inclusive parental leave policy providing 18 weeks leave including superannuation to support parents at work and in life.

We employee more than 2900 people across Australia and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture, where everyone feels safe, valued, and trusted to do their best every day.

We are APA

APA Group is a leading Australian energy infrastructure business.

We proudly own, operate and manage a diverse $27 billion portfolio of gas, electricity, solar and wind assets which deliver essential services to communities and customers across Australia.
And we own over 15,000 kilometres of gas pipelines which deliver energy to families and industry 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 centric approach means we understand our customers and their businesses offering reliable, innovative, and cost-effective energy solutions that support their decarbonisation ambitions.

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

We prioritise sustainable outcomes so that APA, our people, customers, and communities can thrive – now and in the future.

Join our team and be part of Australia’s energy transition!

We’d love to hear from you.

APA is an equal opportunity employer. The safety, health and wellbeing our people, community and environment a priorty. 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.

PD is available on request by emailing recruitment@apa.com.au quoting reference number above.

We will contact successful candidates after the closing date.