Project Delivery Technician

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 Project Delivery Technician to join us in our Operations Delivery team in Dandenong on a fixed term basis for 12 months.

Reporting to the Team Leader Operations Delivery, you will play a key role in ensuring the safe and efficient operation and improvement of plant and transmission pipeline systems managed by APA Group.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare, coordinate, and implement plans for new plant/equipment installations and modifications to enhance operational effectiveness and meet customer requirements

• Liaise with Engineers, System Controllers, Team Leaders, and other relevant personnel on plant modifications, including the development of project scope of works and budgets

• Review documentations, make recommendations on project scope and modifications, participate in review panels, and develop and modify technical specifications

• Assist with sourcing and procuring new plant, ensuring standardisation wherever possible

• Assist with APA's insourcing project and support in ways to work with the SIB Team to Excavate and protect the pipelines for integrity inspections. Work with Team Leader and Project Engineers to review and deliver Project scope of works and asst with cost saving measures but ensuring the safety of the plant equipment and people

• Assist with managing allocated operational projects, ensuring they are completed within budget and on schedule, and provide comprehensive project status reports regularly

Your background

• Mechanical trade or equivalent experience in transmission gas pipelines

• Have VOC for using Excavators and associated plan and machinery with the highest integrity

• Knowledge and experience working around gas pipelines and associated gas infrastructure

• Ability to competently use relevant computer applications

• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and a methodical approach to work

• Be a Team player and contribute to its success.

About the Team

The Operations Project Delivery team in looks after Stay in Business (SIB) projects across the Natural Gas pipeline assets in the Gas East Business. The team comprises of technicians with a mix of electrical & mechanical trades, and they work across the states of Victoria, NSW and Queensland, where APA has its gas asset footprint. Most of the work involves brown field construction work and relevant pipeline maintenance work. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of Australia's energy transition and play a key role in supporting APA's critical energy infrastructure.

To help APA Securing Australia's Energy Future, the Operations teams focus is on Our People, Operational Excellence and Creating Value. We are also making great strides towards achieving our net zero ambition, enabling APA to be world class in energy solutions.

This is an exciting time for the team, we need people who are courageous, nimble, and ready to make an impact.

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.

APA Group will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies.

We will contact successful candidates after the closing date.