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 Power Systems Lead to join us in our Power and Electricity Transmission team in any of our capital cities on a full time permanent basis.

Reporting to the Power Services, Head of, you will play a key role you will act as the functional lead for operational control frameworks, providing authoritative guidance to identify and resolve systemic issues and deliver measurable, sustainable improvements across safety, compliance and performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Identifying, leading, and participating in projects to improve the effectiveness of the operations.
• Facilitating projects and workshops to teach improvement skills; coaching, training, and mentoring a team of selected staff to identify and manage business improvement projects.
• Providing coaching and guidance to team members who are working on their business improvement qualifications; managing the implementation of the selected methodology (e.g. LEAN/Six Sigma) for problem solving within the organisation.
• Identifying, collecting, analyzing, and interpreting relevant information to support effective decision-making & conducting a performance reporting system.
• Preparing and managing Business Improvement team budgets to achieve business outcomes.

Your background

• Demonstrated ability to diagnose complex operational and system issues, applying structured problem-solving to identify root causes and deliver practical, sustainable solutions.

• Strong systems thinking capability, with experience assessing how processes, controls and behaviours interact to influence safety, reliability and performance outcomes.
• Proven experience driving continuous improvement initiatives, translating insights into clear actions that improve consistency, effectiveness and efficiency.
• Ability to apply sound judgement to ensure work and decisions align with operational intent, risk controls and business requirements.
• Experience influencing outcomes across multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders through clear analysis, evidence-based recommendations and technical credibility.
• Track record of monitoring system performance, identifying emerging risks or inefficiencies, and proactively implementing improvements.

About the Team

The Power & Electricity team exists to deliver safe and reliable operation of APA’s power and electricity assets, enabling efficient performance, maximising asset value, and supporting the achievement of APA’s business strategy and customer outcomes.

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’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 $26 billion portfolio of gas, electricity, solar and wind 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 centric 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.