The Opportunity

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

We now have an exciting opportunity available for a Regulatory Compliance Manager to join us in our Asset Management team in Perth as our preferred location, with Adelaide and Darwin a consideration, on a full time basis.

Reporting to the Manager Operations Risk Compliance & Assurance, you will play a key role in overseeing compliance with regulatory and prudential requirements, managing audits, reporting and relationships with regulators and internal stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate all aspects of regulatory compliance, risk management, and assurance of controls, including prudential requirements, regulator engagement, legislative change management, and compliance audits.
• Act as the key conduit for all regulatory information, ensuring effective flow of information between regulators and the business while preparing high-quality reports and responses
• Effectively communicating regulatory change and leading the implementation of these changes across Operations
• Provide leadership and strategic guidance to ensure the business proactively monitors, maintains, and measures compliance standards.
• Champion and enhance systems and processes that track, monitor, and report on compliance and risk at both Operations and enterprise levels.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement, identifying opportunities to strengthen compliance and risk management across APA Operations.

Your background

• Demonstrated experience in compliance roles within asset-intensive sectors (e.g., energy, utilities, manufacturing) with a strong understanding of regulatory frameworks
• Stakeholder engagement & collaboration – Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with internal teams and regulators.
• Exceptional communication & influence – confident written and verbal communicator who can engage stakeholders at all levels
• Regulatory interpretation & problem-solving – Skilled in analysing legislation and guidelines to provide practical, business-focused compliance advice.
• Judgement – can be relied on to make good decisions incorporating analysis, wisdom, experience & knowledge

About the Team

The Operations Risk, Compliance and Assurance team play an integral role in ensuring that APA continues to connect millions of Australians to essential energy sources every day and in pursuing our net zero ambitions.

You will work as an integral member of this multidiscipline, geographically dispersed and highly skilled team of professionals. The team’s role is to proactively engage with key stakeholders both within the business and externally to ensure that APA’s operations remain compliant and consistent with risk appetite while also providing guidance in support of future growth opportunities.

This is an exciting time for our growing team as APA continues to expand its asset portfolio across the country. We need people who are courageous, nimble, and ready to make a positive impact.

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 employ more than 2700 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 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.

We will contact successful candidates after the closing date.