Gas Asset Maintenance Team Leader

**About Us**

Santos provides reliable, affordable energy for progress and seeks to provide lower carbon energy over time.

Santos is a global energy company with operations across Australia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and the United States.

At Santos, our goal is to be a global leader in the energy evolution to low-carbon fuels that help the world decarbonise and continue to provide the reliable, affordable energy the world needs for modern life and human progress.

Santos is an important Australian domestic gas supplier and LNG supplier in Asia. We are committed to supplying critical fuels such as oil and gas, and abating emissions through carbon capture and storage, energy efficiency projects, use of renewables in our operations and high-quality offsets. Santos will also seek to develop low-carbon fuels as customer demand evolves.

For 70 years, Santos has been working in partnership with local communities, providing jobs and business opportunities, safely developing natural gas resources and from there powering industries and households.

Santos seeks to deliver long-term value to shareholders through our diverse portfolio of high-quality, long-life, low-cost oil and gas assets, carbon storage resources and infrastructure.

The Santos portfolio is value accretive and resilient across a range of decarbonisation scenarios. Santos has a climate transition action plan that will continue to evolve for the global energy evolution.

Santos has a regional operating model with a strong local focus. The Company's operating structure comprises three regional business units focused on enabling and executing corporate strategy. Two divisions - Santos Energy Solutions and Santos Upstream Gas and Liquids - are accountable for global portfolio management and strategy.

**About the Role**

Based at our Perth office, the Gas Asset Maintenance Team Leader will lead a team of planners, schedulers, campaign, and specialist staff to implement and deliver the maintenance program that is in line with Santos values and overall business objectives.

**Accountabilities are delivered in line with the Santos company values and Santos Management System (SMS). Key responsibilities of the role include**:

- Lead and manage a team of planners, schedulers, campaign event leads and engineers/specialists to implement the direction, vision and role accountabilities.
- Provide performance feedback, coaching & mentoring and ensure team development to optimise performance and commitment of leaders and employees.
- Drive process improvements and transform team approaches to optimise team performance and deliverables.
- Maintain a close working relationship with internal stakeholder teams - operations, production planning, production engineering, reliability and integrity engineering personnel to achieve production and maintenance goals.
- Budget development and reporting for Maintenance OPEX.
- Accountable for the conversion of engineering strategies into deliverables to ensure safe, effective and efficient execution in the field.
- Ensure availability and accuracy of Long Range (3yr) > Execution (6 week) maintenance programs.
- Support campaigns from pre-planning phase through to execution to achieve cost effective, on time completion of campaign events.
- Influence 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).
- Utilise core KPIs to analyze maintenance performance and identify areas of process weakness and delivery improvement opportunity.
- Stewardship of Safety Critical Maintenance delivery.
- Drive change into CMMS Master Data as required.
- Manage Return to Plan (RTP) events utilizing specialist technical support within team and engaging external teams and contractors where necessary.
- Ensure compliance to Santos Management Systems, Operational Excellence standards and Procedures.

**About You**
- We are seeking for experienced professionals with the following competencies:

- Relevant degree qualifications or similar with a history of experience in training is preferred
- Exposure working in a large corporate environment and in maintenance operations within hydrocarbon facilities
- Experience in managing and leading teams of professionals and/or individual contributors
- Strong knowledge of CMMS, integrated planning & scheduling systems; preferably SAP and Primavera experience
- Good understanding of maintenance, production operations and reliability processes related to asset management practices
- Strong leadership in maintenance and safety management
- Flexible, adaptable and resilient in meeting business demands

**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 t