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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.\nWe now have an exciting opportunity available for a Senior Commissioning Engineer to join our Infrastructure Delivery team in our Brisbane, Melbourne or Perth office on a full-time basis for 2 years.\nReporting to the Commissioning Lead, you will play a key role in delivering safe, efficient and compliant commissioning outcomes across APA's growing portfolio of gas infrastructure projects. Acting as a technical commissioning specialist, you will support projects from planning and documentation through to testing, start-up and operational handover, ensuring assets are commissioned to the required standards and ready for safe operation.\nWith a strong project pipeline secured for the years ahead, this is an opportunity to work on critical energy infrastructure projects while partnering with experienced engineering, construction and operational teams. You will enjoy a high degree of autonomy, influence project outcomes, and be recognised as a trusted technical expert within your discipline.\nKey Responsibilities\nLead commissioning and pre-commissioning activities across major gas infrastructure projects from planning through to operational handover.\nDevelop and implement commissioning plans, procedures, work instructions and associated documentation.\nProvide technical commissioning expertise during project design and delivery to support efficient and safe commissioning outcomes.\nPlan and coordinate commissioning, plant shutdown, start-up and functional testing activities with internal and external stakeholders.\nManage commissioning interfaces with vendors, contractors, project teams and operational personnel to ensure successful project delivery.\nMentor engineers and contribute to commissioning standards, technical excellence and continuous improvement across the business.\nYour Background\nDemonstrated experience in commissioning, pre-commissioning, start-up or operational readiness activities within energy, gas, LNG, power, utilities, mining or other process industries.\nStrong technical expertise in Electrical & Instrumentation (E&I), controls, instrumentation, process systems or a related discipline.\nExperience planning and executing brownfield and/or greenfield commissioning projects, including testing and asset handover.\nAbility to work independently, manage competing priorities and support multiple projects simultaneously.\nStrong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, construction, operations, contractors and vendors.\nEngineering qualifications or a trade-based technical background supported by significant commissioning experience.\nAt APA, you'll join a collaborative and values-driven team where safety, integrity and continuous improvement are at the centre of everything we do. This role offers the opportunity to work on complex and rewarding infrastructure projects while developing your expertise within one of Australia's leading energy infrastructure businesses.\nTravel of approximately 30% will be required, primarily across East Coast project sites.\nWorking at APA\nAt APA, we’re committed to fostering a safe and inclusive workplace where you can achieve your best.\nWe 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.\nWe 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.\nWe are APA\nAt 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.\nWe 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.\nAs 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.\nOur customer focused approach means we understand our customers and offer them reliable, innovative, and cost-effective energy solutions that support their decarbonisation ambitions.\nWe 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.\nJoin our team and be part of securing Australia’s energy future. We’d love to hear from you.\nAPA 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.\nApplicants must be eligible to work in Australia to be considered.\nThis vacancy works with critical APA data, systems or infrastructure and candidates are subject to background vetting (including Police checks) before & during employment.\nRole closes on Tuesday, 10 November 2026. 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