Quality 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.

Reporting to the Quality Manager, we have a great opportunity for a Quality Engineer to join our Project Delivery team and play an important role in delivering high quality project outcomes.

You’ll work closely with project teams and vendors to provide quality assurance and oversight, strengthen quality governance and drive continuous improvement. At the heart of the role is making sure our assets are delivered to specification, with a strong focus on getting things right the first time.

This role can be based in Brisbane or Sydney.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with project teams to develop and implement Project Quality Plans, ensuring quality risks are identified and managed throughout delivery.

• Lead vendor quality activities across materials and equipment packages, including technical bid evaluations, quality document reviews, inspections and FATs.

• Coordinate suppliers, engineers, procurement teams and third-party inspectors to ensure quality requirements are understood and effectively delivered.

• Manage non-conformances, technical queries and corrective actions through to timely close-out, escalating significant risks where required.

• Review and approve vendor quality documentation, inspection records and MDRs to support compliant project handover.

• Use quality insights, trends and lessons learned to drive continuous improvement and reduce repeat issues across projects.

Your background

• A tertiary qualification in Engineering or a related discipline is desirable.

• Vendor and/or Project Quality experience within infrastructure, energy, utilities or other asset-intensive industries.

• Strong knowledge of project quality assurance, quality management systems, vendor quality and compliance requirements.

• Hands-on experience reviewing ITPs, quality documentation, inspection records and MDRs, and supporting supplier inspections and FATs.

• Proven ability to manage quality risks, non-conformances and corrective actions while balancing compliance and project outcomes.

• Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to build effective relationships across project, engineering, procurement and supplier teams.

• A proactive, practical approach to problem-solving, continuous improvement and delivering quality outcomes.

• Familiarity with quality management systems, ISO 9001 principles and quality assurance processes within project environments would be advantageous.

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.