Project 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 Project Engineer - Project Delivery Transformation to join our Infrastructure Delivery team in our Melbourne or Sydney office on a full-time basis for 2 years.

Reporting to the Senior Project Manager, you will play a key role in shaping and improving how APA develops and delivers complex infrastructure projects, bringing practical project delivery experience to strengthen our systems, processes, controls and ways of working across the project lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Improve and embed project delivery processes, standards, governance and toolkits across the Develop, Deliver and Operate lifecycle.
• Strengthen project delivery practices across assurance, engineering and design, project controls, reporting, handover and commissioning, identifying opportunities for greater consistency and efficiency.
• Develop and improve project controls and reporting frameworks across schedule, cost, risk, progress and performance.
• Collaborate with Project Managers, Project Engineers and specialist teams to identify opportunities to simplify ways of working and uplift project delivery discipline and capability.
• Translate improvement opportunities into practical ways of working, including tools, templates, guidance and training, while contributing to their successful adoption across project teams.
• Work across Infrastructure Delivery, Energy Solutions, Operations and specialist functions to implement improvements and coordinate outcomes across multiple workstreams.

Your Background

• Working experience in project engineering, project management or project delivery, ideally within energy, utilities, infrastructure or construction.
• Demonstrated experience developing and/or delivering complex infrastructure or major capital projects, with a strong understanding of what effective project delivery looks like in practice.
• Good understanding of the project lifecycle, governance and stage-gate processes, ideally with exposure across multiple phases from development through delivery, commissioning and handover.
• Practical exposure to areas such as engineering and design, project controls, cost and schedule, risk, assurance, construction, commissioning or operational handover.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to challenge existing ways of working and turn delivery experience into practical improvements.
• Strong stakeholder and communication skills, with experience working across multidisciplinary project teams; exposure to tools such as Power BI, Primavera P6, Microsoft Project or SharePoint will be well regarded.

Working at APA

At APA, we’re committed to fostering a safe and inclusive workplace where you can achieve your best.

We offer targeted career development programs designed to accelerate your career, competitive remuneration, employee benefits, flexible working arrangements, and wellbeing initiatives are all part of what we’ll offer you. Our inclusive parental leave policy offers 18 weeks of leave, including superannuation, to support parents at work and in life.

We employ around 2,000 people across Australia and are committed to building a high-performing, customer-focused organisation where everyone feels safe, valued, and trusted to perform at their best.

We are APA

At APA, we’re taking on one of Australia’s greatest challenges: the energy transition. We’re not doing it alone. We’re doing it as Australia’s energy infrastructure partner, a role our unique experience and expertise positions us to play.

We proudly own, operate and manage a diverse $20 billion portfolio of 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 focused 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.