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 Project Development Engineer to join us in our Gas West Asset Engineering and Project Delivery team in Perth on a full-time permanent basis.

Reporting to the Team Leader Asset Engineering WA, you will play a key role in coordinating the full lifecycle of Recoverable Works Agreements, from initial engagement with third parties, through project execution, to final handover.​

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the primary point of contact for all third-party recoverable works and third-party engagements, ensuring compliance with AS 2885 pipeline requirements on behalf of APA.
• Prepare cost estimates and coordinate pipeline integrity works in alignment with APA policies, standards, and procedures.
• Collaborate with the Asset Engineering team to review and endorse third-party designs and construction methodologies, ensuring compliance with APA’s safety, technical, and regulatory requirements prior to execution.
• Manage third-party interfaces and activities to protect APA personnel, assets, and operational integrity.
• Work closely with APA Operations & Maintenance teams, Corridor Integrity, and subject matter experts to ensure operational requirements are embedded within project scopes and deliverables.
• Develop and maintain engineering documentation, including standards, procedures, safe work practices, and monitoring regimes for work on or around pipeline assets.

Your background

• Sound engineering background with the ability to ensure compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements, including AS 2885 and relevant company standards and policies.
• Demonstrated experience in pipeline engineering and infrastructure commissioning activities, including support with engineering budget preparation and management of budget variances.
• Proven project management capability to deliver pipeline engineering projects end-to-end, ensuring schedule, cost, and quality objectives are achieved.
• Ability to develop preliminary and detailed mechanical and pipeline designs in line with approved scope of works and engineering requirements.
• Experience in developing engineering procedures, safe work practices, and monitoring regimes to support safe and compliant pipeline project delivery.
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional engineering teams and internal and external stakeholders.

About the Team

The Gas West Asset Engineering and Project Delivery team exists to provide engineering and project delivery services to ensure reliable and safe operation of the APA Business Unit Gas West assets. The team enables APA to achieve its business strategy and goals, extract maximum value from its assets, and deliver value for its customers.

The team consists of Asset Engineering, Facilities Engineering, Major Maintenance and Gas East West Emergency Services.

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.