Civil and Structural Engineering Lead for Low-Carbon Projects

3 days ago


Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Santos Full time

About Santos

Santos is a leading global energy company with a strong presence in Australia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, and the United States. With a vision to be a global leader in the energy evolution to low-carbon fuels, we are committed to providing reliable, affordable energy while abating emissions through carbon capture and storage, energy efficiency projects, and the use of renewables.

We operate in a dynamic environment, working in partnership with local communities to provide jobs and business opportunities while safely developing natural gas resources and powering industries and households. Our diverse portfolio of high-quality, long-life, low-cost oil and gas assets, carbon storage resources, and infrastructure positions us for long-term success.

Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced Civil and Structural Engineering Lead to join our Development team. This role will play a pivotal part in ensuring fit-for-purpose design for our projects, balancing risk and reward to improve project value while ensuring compliance with Australian and Santos standards. You will have a key role in delivering front-end engineering design (FEED) for a portfolio of EAPNG projects, identifying opportunities to optimise resource recovery strategies and implement cost-saving initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and Technical Leadership: Own engineering input to prevent scope drift in FEED and detailed design, ensuring compliance with Santos, Australian, and international specifications and standards.
  • Risk Management: Balance risk and reward in design, inherently safe & operable facilities at the lowest lifecycle cost.
  • Project Delivery: Accountable for delivering in-house concept deliverables, risk identification and control in design (HAZID, HAZOP, CHAZOP, LOPA etc.), FEED & Detailed Design document reviews, project-specific specifications, project technical RFI and TQ responses, and maintaining a fit-for-purpose development design catalogue improving NPV of development tranches.
  • Civil and Structural Authority: TA1 technical authority responsibilities for Civil and Structural discipline, ensuring implementation of and compliance to regulatory, industry, and company standards and codes for Civil and Structural discipline.

About You

We are looking for a self-starter with proven business optimisation experience working within a multi-disciplinary team. You should be meticulous about taking your work from concept to implementation, enjoying working in a fast-paced, agile environment. Essential experience required for this position includes 15+ years' experience in oil and gas or similar industry, minimum 10 years as a practicing engineer in Oil and Gas Upstream or Processing facilities, practicing in the Civil and Structural discipline. Chartered Engineer and RPEQ certification is also required.

What We Offer

Santos acknowledges that we operate on traditional lands of Aboriginal people, recognising their rights to maintain culture, identities, traditions, and customs. We commit to an inclusive environment where everyone feels comfortable being themselves, treating each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, or any other aspect making us different.

Estimated Salary: $150,000 - $200,000 per annum.



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