Team Lead Spatial Services

**Don’t come for an easy career. Stay for a rewarding one.**
- At Santos, we do work that matters and always have. When you join us, so will you.

As an ASX 20 global energy company, we’re committed to providing reliable and affordable energy to help create a better world for everyone.

To make it happen, we work as One Team and ask ourselves, “How can we?” (Even when others say, “We can’t.”)

We’re proud of our history as pioneers, problem-solvers, and pragmatists. And as we strive to achieve our Vision2040, we’ve got our sights set on a culture that is focussed and disciplined to drive value, and entrepreneurial and energised to leave a positive legacy.

The difference isn’t just thinking big - it’s delivering on it too.

As part of the team, you’ll tackle one of the most complex problems of our time. It’s no easy task, but nothing rewarding ever is.

**What you’ll do**:

- Deliver strategic change in Spatial Services, leading the implementation of a new ArcGIS enterprise solution for Santos within the Eastern Australia & Papua New Guinea Regional Business Unit (EA & PNG RBU). You will take a systematic approach to managing change, aiming for efficient and effective implementation of the system into the business.

You will manage a team of spatial data professionals to deliver high quality, timely spatial services for stakeholders within the EA & PNG RBU including environmental, cultural heritage, land access, compliance, and civil works teams.

Key accountabilities include:

- ** Team Management, Skills Development and Resource Allocation**: Clearly communicate team roles and accountabilities. Enhance the organisation’s technical competence and staff development and ensure effective workforce planning and resource deployment.
- ** Operational Excellence**: Drive process improvements, resource efficiency, cost-saving and value-creation initiatives.
- ** Stakeholder and Compliance Engagement**: Engage stakeholders effectively and ensure compliance with key requirements.
- ** Emergency Response Support**: Provide spatial services support to ICT/IMT teams, including survey data and formatting guidance.
- ** Quality Assurance and Project Oversight**: Maintain quality control of spatial outputs and align projects with strategy and the Santos Management System.
- ** Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration**: Facilitate information sharing between data managers across business functions. Work to make EA & PNG RBU spatial information accessible across different departments and locations.
- ** Governance**: Ensure adherence to Santos standards and contribute to global and regional spatial procedures.

**What you’ll bring**:

- Demonstrated experience in Enterprise Change Management. You will have a passion for managing and leading teams of GIS professionals, and expertise in spatial systems, industry standard spatial databases, integration challenges, best-practice workflows and automation, document management systems and support tools.

You will have the ability to effectively lead collaboration across the business between stakeholders and GIS SME’s
- Degree or equivalent Tertiary qualifications in Geographic Information Systems, Geospatial Science, Geomatics, or similar.
- Skills in analysing complex problems, framing options, and presenting recommendations to senior management.
- Demonstrated high degree of experience and relevant certifications with the Esri suite of products.

**What you’ll get**:

- Here, you’ll be amongst high-calibre people and get to work on industry-leading projects. We don’t shy away from solving tough problems at pace. We like it that way. You can expect to be challenged and supported; to learn and grow.

At Santos, we’re committed to creating a workplace where everyone can thrive. This means a place that is safe; where you are valued and respected, and your contribution is recognised and appreciated. Join us, and you’ll play a role in this too.

Each of our sites offer access to specific amenities that aim to create the best possible benefits to your health, wellbeing and performance. In Brisbane this includes Onsite Gym facilities, Onsite GP services and many more employee benefits.

**What you’re part of**:

- Everywhere you turn you will be a part of a team who are coming together to contribute to our single uniting purpose - to provide reliable and affordable energy to help create a better world for everyone

And because it’s not only what you do, but how you do it, you will also contribute to improving the living standards of the communities where we operate, building enduring and respectful relationships that serve a generation. It’s about each of us, and all of us - together.

**How to Apply**:

- Applications must be submitted via the online recruitment system before **COB Tuesday 3rd June 2025.**

**Supporting a Diverse Workforce**
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