Maintenance Team Leader

**About Us**

Santos is a global low-cost producer of oil and gas committed to ever-cleaner energy and fuels production with operations across Australia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and North America.

At Santos, our commitment is to be a global leader in the transition to cleaner energy and clean fuels, by helping the world decarbonise to reach net-zero emissions in an affordable and sustainable way.

Santos is one of Australia’s biggest domestic gas suppliers, a leading Asia Pacific LNG supplier and is committed to supplying the critical fuels such as oil and gas in a more sustainable way through decarbonising projects such as the Moomba CCS project.

For more than 65 years, Santos has been working in partnership with local communities, providing local jobs and business opportunities, safely and sustainably developing its natural gas resources, and powering industries and households.

With a strong, low-cost base business supplying oil and gas and a clear action plan to develop cleaner energy and clean fuels, Santos remains resilient, value accretive and at the leading edge of the energy transition.

With a global portfolio of operations, we offer a diverse and inclusive environment with extraordinary career opportunities. Our strategy is to focus on creating a safe work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values and objectives, and where the capability of our people is key to our success.

**About the role**

Based in the Adelaide Office and reporting to the Senior Maintenance Manager, this position is responsible for leading the Midstream Maintenance (Cooper) team of planners, schedulers and specialist staff ensuring effective and efficient implementation of maintenance programs.

Accountabilities are delivered in line with the Santos Management System (SMS), Santos Delegation of Authority (DOA) and Corporate Governance and Safety requirements. Key responsibilities of the role include:

- Mitigating or minimizing risk to the business through proactive team management and processes
- Preparing and overseeing budgets in line with company requirements, identifying and delivering opportunities to reduce costs or improve profitability of own area.
- Analyzing maintenance data to ensure a Continuous Improvement cycle is active
- Ensuring availability and accuracy of Long Range (3yr) > Execution (6 week) maintenance programs
- Supporting the pre-planning phase of campaigns to achieve cost effective, on time completion of campaign events
- Influencing reliability and integrity maintenance programs to meet the objectives of campaign-based delivery (alignment by area, resource, or service provision on the premise of maximizing efficiency and minimising downtime)
- Utilizing core KPIs to analyze maintenance performance and identify areas of process weakness and delivery improvement opportunity.
- Managing Return to Plan (RTP) events utilizing specialist technical support within team and engaging external teams and contractors where necessary
- Engaging and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders - production planning, production engineering, reliability and integrity engineering personnel to achieve production and maintenance goals
- Setting goals through performance and development discussions ensuring team purpose and role accountabilities are clearly communicated and understood.
- Championing change and foster a performance culture to achieve desired culture outcomes and engaged team members.
- Providing performance feedback, coaching & mentoring of team members.
- Driving process improvements in maintenance planning, scheduling and execution.
- Ensuring compliance with and adherence to standards for EHS performance and behavior consistent with Company’s environmental, and health & safety vision and policies and standards

**About you**

You will demonstrate strong leadership in maintenance and safety management with a deep understanding of maintenance, production operations and reliability processes as they relate to asset management practices. Critical to this role is the ability to manage and lead a team of professionals and/or individual contributors with the ability to influence various stakeholders.

**Supporting a Diverse Workforce**

Santos acknowledges that we operate on the traditional lands of Aboriginal people. We recognise the traditional rights to maintain the culture, identities, traditions, and customs on their country. We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome - they are essential to our ongoing success.

We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, or anything else that makes us different.

Australian Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander jobseekers are strongly encouraged