Maintenance Specialist

**Work with one of Australia's leading energy pioneers**:

- ** 4 month assignment via Chandler Macleod, working full-time hours, immediate start, Brisbane CBD location**:

- ** Be part of a team that is responsible for delivering multi-discipline projects**

**About Santos**

Santos is a leading independent 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, Santos has been supplying reliable and affordable energy for over 65 years.

**About the Assignment**

Deliver continuous improvement and standardization opportunities across the onshore Maintenance Team, working closely with Maintenance Support, Reliability and Maintenance Execution. Work activities are driven via the area-based schedules, delivering cost effective equipment outages, overhauls, shutdowns, and project upgrades.

The role enables continuous improvement and successful execution of planned maintenance activities within the Centralized Maintenance Team.
- Engage with specialist technical support within internal and external teams, and contractors
- Deliver continuous improvement and standardization opportunities across the onshore compression fleet and field assets, with a strong focus on Safety Critical Maintenance (SCM) to permit our license to operate
- Support schedule compliance and work execution quality, focusing on continuous improvement within the execution teams, leveraging off technical and trade background experiences
- Escalate, drive and resolve daily threats to schedule compliance with relevant stakeholders

**Schedule and Execution**
- Drive schedule compliance within the team
- Participate in area schedule reviews and feedback changes
- Corrective Maintenance work order reviews to confirm, scope, resources & materials before work order release.
- Fortnightly schedule support - forward look ahead for potential shortfalls of labour and materials

**Systems & Contractor Interfaces**
- Facilitate/Chair monthly IWT's (Integrated Working Team sessions) with key contractors
- Coordinate reviews and updates of key operating procedures
- Maintain/update team KPI Dashboard
- Liaise with training providers to align training with roster with mínimal impact to operations

**Field Facing Support**
- Actively visit the field to build relationships with the execution teams
- Support MDCRs, BOMs, parts issues, TIN reviews and updates to ensure information is current and correct
- Support maintenance manifest delivery, location, confirm parts, security

**Relationships**
- Build and maintain relationships with key maintenance contractors and OEMs
- Liaise with technical engineering and project engineering teams to challenge and maintain work pack quality
- Liaise with planning and scheduling team challenge and maintain WO quality and scheduling efficiencies

**About you**
- 5 years' experience in Oil and Gas Industry
- Minimum 3 years' experience in planned maintenance outages or project management of minor or major oil and gas projects
- Knowledge of oil and gas processing equipment
- Strong communication skills to encourage involvement for site and contractor interface for planned outages and work related activities
- Previous experience within Project Management, Maintenance Planning & Scheduling, Reliability Engineering, Mechanical Engineering would be favourable but not mandatory

**How to Apply**
- To be considered for this assignment you must have current work rights in Australia (i.e., Australian citizenship, permanent residency, or eligible working visa)._
- We comply with all relevant State, Territory and International Covid-19 laws and health orders, including but not limited to vaccinations, safe travel, and declarations of health. We acknowledge that these laws and health orders will vary and may change over time. We encourage all applicants to check and consider the impact of the relevant laws and health orders on your availability for this assignment and work location._