Senior Facilities Inspection Engineer

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 now have an exciting opportunity available for a Senior Facilities Inspection Engineer, to join us in our Operations Gas West team Perth, WA on a Permanent Full Time Contract.

Reporting to the WA Asset Engineering Team Lead, you'll work with Gas West Operations to enhance maintenance, inspections, and reliability across APA facilities, ensuring safe, compliant, and efficient operation of gas infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Review inspection reports, raise corrective actions, and update APA's CMMS (Maximo) to ensure AS3788 compliance.
• Assist Gas West Transmission operations with inspections, asset validation, and risk assessments.
• Provide integrity engineering advice to APA Projects, Asset Management, Operations, and Planning & Scheduling.
• Contribute to improving maintenance execution and prioritisation of critical tasks.
• Manage engineering requests for APA and third-party assets, develop project scopes, and ensure compliance with contractual and technical requirements.
• Execute Management of Change (MOC) for static mechanical equipment, including piping, valves, and heaters on APA and third-party assets.
• Collaborate across teams to identify opportunities for operational and engineering improvements.

Your background

• Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical or Materials) with extensive facilities inspection and integrity engineering experience in gas transmission assets.
• NER certification and CPEng (Mechanical/Material) qualifications are highly desirable, along with AICIP/CBIP certification.
• Strong knowledge of relevant engineering standards, best practices, and asset lifecycle phases, including design, construction, commissioning, operation, and decommissioning.
• Skilled in developing scoping documents, project proposals, and providing technical reviews of calculations, drawings, reports, and specifications.
• Proven ability to effectively plan work, manage multiple priorities, and deliver results.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• High level of computer literacy and a current manual driver's licence.

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 Tuesday, 26 August 2025. Role Reference Number JR2993

APA Group will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies.

We will contact successful candidates after the closing date.