Team Leader

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 currently have an exciting opportunity for a Team Lead – Projects & Overhauls to join our Power Operations team on a Permanent Full-Time basis.

Reporting to the Head of Power Services, this role provides leadership, governance and technical oversight across all projects and major overhauls nationally, ensuring consistent delivery to APA's engineering standards, operational requirements, and safety expectations. The role will also lead and develop the Overhauls team, driving alignment and efficiency across APA's power generation asset base.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, direction, and support to the national Projects & Overhauls team, ensuring capability, performance and development of team members.
• Lead the governance and end-to-end delivery framework of overhaul projects and capital works across all APA power generation sites, ensuring safety, quality, schedule, and budget requirements are consistently met.
• Provide senior technical oversight and input across all phases of overhaul and project scope development, planning, execution, and closeout.
• Ensure that all project and overhaul work meet APA's engineering standards, operational requirements, and complies with regulatory obligations.
• Establish and maintain national processes, tools, and reporting frameworks to drive consistency and best practice across regions.
• Coordinate and oversee internal teams, contractors, and service providers to deliver outcomes in line with APA's strategic objectives.
• Collaborate closely with Operations, Engineering, and Maintenance teams to align on project needs and expectations and training dependent upon project complexity.
• Monitor project progress, address risks, and adapt plans as necessary to ensure successful execution.
• Provide clear and timely reporting on national project and overhaul status, risks, and performance to senior leadership.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement, leveraging lessons learned across projects to enhance APA's overall delivery capability.

About You

• Extensive experience leading multi-disciplinary projects and overhauls teams across multiple sites or regions within the energy, power generation, or heavy industrial sectors.
• Proven experience managing complex overhauls and shutdowns, particularly involving large rotating or mechanical equipment.
• Strong knowledge of engineering principles and project delivery frameworks within heavy industrial, energy, or power generation environments.
• Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills, especially under time and operational pressures.
• Strong communication and leadership skills with the ability to engage, lead and influence cross-functional teams and external contractors. Experience working with large rotating equipment OEMs specifically advantageous.
• Demonstrated ability to implement governance frameworks, standardise processes, and deliver outcomes across geographically dispersed teams.
• Commitment to safety, quality, and delivering results on time and on budget.

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.

Role closes Sunday, 12 October 2025. Role Reference Number JR3171

APA Group will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies.

We will contact successful candidates after the closing date.