Operations Specialist Wa

**About Us**

Santos provides reliable, affordable energy for progress and seeks to provide lower carbon energy over time.

Santos is a global energy company with operations across Australia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and the United States.

At Santos, our goal is to be a global leader in the energy evolution to low-carbon fuels that help the world decarbonise and continue to provide the reliable, affordable energy the world needs for modern life and human progress.

Santos is an important Australian domestic gas supplier and LNG supplier in Asia. We are committed to supplying critical fuels such as oil and gas, and abating emissions through carbon capture and storage, energy efficiency projects, use of renewables in our operations and high-quality offsets. Santos will also seek to develop low-carbon fuels as customer demand evolves.

For 70 years, Santos has been working in partnership with local communities, providing jobs and business opportunities, safely developing natural gas resources and from there powering industries and households.

Santos seeks to deliver long-term value to shareholders through our diverse portfolio of high-quality, long-life, low-cost oil and gas assets, carbon storage resources and infrastructure.

The Santos portfolio is value accretive and resilient across a range of decarbonisation scenarios. Santos has a climate transition action plan that will continue to evolve for the global energy evolution.

Santos has a regional operating model with a strong local focus. The Company’s operating structure comprises three regional business units focused on enabling and executing corporate strategy. Two divisions - Santos Energy Solutions and Santos Upstream Gas and Liquids - are accountable for global portfolio management and strategy.

**About the Role**

Santos is seeking multiple enthusiastic **Operations Specialists** to join our team. This is a fantastic chance for young engineers to work on innovative projects, gain valuable experience, and grow in a supportive environment.

Based between Perth and Varanus Island, this role will operate across a 24-week continuous cycle - 8 weeks in Perth Ops Centre, 2 weeks onsite, 2 weeks off, 8 weeks in Perth Ops Centre and 4 weeks off. Initially it will be dayshift only working a 5.00am to 5.00pm but the roster will introduce nightshift in Q2-2025. The maximum number of nightshifts will be 28 shifts of 70 shift cycle.

Reporting to the Production Manager, the primary objective of this position is to monitor, operate and control offshore/offshore gas processing facilities. The skills required by the Operations specialist role are critical thinking, fault finding, trouble shooting and problem solving, as well as the ability to maintain situational awareness during both normal operations and abnormal situations.

Operations Specialists must maintain familiarity with site operations and retain the competency to carry out the site Operator (Process) role.

Key responsibilities of the role include (but not limited to):

- Monitoring, operating and controlling gas production equipment to maintain the process within the safe operating limit, including offshore wells/platforms, process plant, and supporting pipeline infrastructure.
- Managing production streams to meet quality and production targets/nominations
- Minimising flaring, venting and fuel usage to reduce operating costs and meet company production targets
- Initiating emergency response for process or site incidents: remotely make plant safe and support the ongoing emergency response effort.
- Validating production data across fields and report volumes. Identify losses and equipment system availability
- Responding to recover deviations from the Production Plan

**About you**

Strong interpersonal skills, critical thinking, and problem-solving abilities are essential.

We are open to considering recent graduates, as this role offers a great opportunity for junior professionals to develop their skills and advance their careers.

In addition, the following skills and experience are highly valued:

- Previous experience in Control Room operations, preferably within the Oil & Gas industry
- Previous experience working with Distributed Control Systems (DCS)
- Operation of major processing and power generation equipment packages
- Experience with PLC based Control, Independent Process Shutdown & Fire & Gas Systems
- Experience in oil and gas processing operations
- Sound level of analytical, oral, computer and written communications skills

Any knowledge of the following will be looked upon favourably:

- Knowledge of Maintenance Systems
- Knowledge of Permit to Work processes & equipment isolations
- Experience in the Oil/Gas industry together with offshore or remote location experience in a multi-skilled environment, or experience working in remote locations in a multi-skilled environment

If you're passionate about engineering and ready for new challenges, we want to hear from you

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