AddressAbout Us
Santos is a global low-cost 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.
At Santos, our commitment is to be a global leader in the transition to cleaner energy and clean fuels, by helping the world decarbonise to reach net-zero emissions in an affordable and sustainable way.
Santos is one of Australia’s biggest domestic gas suppliers, a leading Asia Pacific LNG supplier and is committed to supplying the critical fuels such as oil and gas in a more sustainable way through decarbonising projects such as the Moomba CCS project.
For more than 65 years, Santos has been working in partnership with local communities, providing local jobs and business opportunities, safely and sustainably developing its natural gas resources, and powering industries and households.
With a strong, low-cost base business supplying oil and gas and a clear action plan to develop cleaner energy and clean fuels, Santos remains resilient, value accretive and at the leading edge of the energy transition.
With a global portfolio of operations, we offer a diverse and inclusive environment with extraordinary career opportunities. Our strategy is to focus on creating a safe work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values and objectives, and where the capability of our people is key to our success.
About the role
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Planner to join the Santos team. Based at our global headquarters in Brisbane and reporting to the GLNG Pipeline Manager, this position will be responsible for planning and scheduling executable and accurate Safety Critical, Preventative Maintenance and Corrective Maintenance Work Orders for the GLNG Pipelines operated assets. The role is to align tasks, scope and resources to achieve optimal serviceability and reliability of plant and equipment.
This role will sit across several operational departments and will involve a degree of commercial interaction working in a proactive and capable team with a defined remit.
Key accountabilities include:
- Develop and deliver plans to achieve 100% asset availability, compliance to IMP and RMP and relevant sections of Australian Standard AS2885.3
- Engage with engineering, specialised contractors and suppliers as required to seek technical support for effective development of work orders.
- Identify work activity safety hazards and logistical issues that will be encountered and ensure all aspects of safety procedures are incorporated into job plan.
- Ensure quality planning of work orders for field execution which includes parts, resources and documentation ensuring availability on site at execution.
- Raise necessary MDCR’s to rectify information not correlating with RMP/IMP
- Assist the business to drive continuous improvement on existing preventative maintenance strategies and implement best practices.
- Develop and maintain strong networks with purchasing and supply personnel to ensure part and equipment availability.
- Maintaining a strong working relation with field based team, upstream planners and schedulers and engineering team.
- Build and disseminate work schedule, ensuring with minimal rescheduled activities and in line with business cadence / timelines.
- Achieve optimal resource utilisation via loading to agreed values and geographical campaigns.
- Engage contractor and support strategic co-ordination for business outcomes.
- Ensure contractor engagement and compliance with required inductions, training and qualifications including the Santos permit to work procedure.
- Drive safety critical work order compliance via early scheduling, stakeholder comms and compliance date review. Manage PM, CM schedule compliance.
- Attend integrated scheduling meetings as required to ensure SIMMOPS works that utilise same contractors are optimised.
- Attend upstream planning / scheduling meetings as required to ensure consistency of activities.
- Manage work order backlog and implement reduction opportunities.
About you
Holding a qualification in a Mechanical, Instrument and/or Electrical Trade, the ideal candidate will possess substantial operational and maintenance experience, ideally within the Oil and Gas Industry and preferably associated with linear infrastructure. You will also possess experience in planning and scheduling maintenance outages or project management of minor or major oil and gas projects, as well as business process maintenance, with strong CMMS knowledge. A knowledge of oil and gas processing equipment especially high-pressure pipeline related assets is essential, as are strong and respectful written and verbal communication skills.
In addition, it is expected that the ideal candidate will be proficient in SAP or alternative computerized maintenance management system (CMMS), Prometheus or alternative scheduling software and that you will also possess advanced computer and database skills, in particular, MS Excel software.
If this sounds like the ideal role for you, do not delay, apply now!
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 to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome – they are essential to our ongoing success.
We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, or anything else that makes us different.
Australian Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander jobseekers are strongly encouraged to apply.
How to apply
Applications must be submitted via the online recruitment system before COB 11 April 2023.
A requirement of this role is that you will need to have in place the legal work rights for Australia to apply.
Potential Scams
There are a number of fake adverts that are impersonating Santos Limited, in these instances you will receive an e-mail from a generic e-mail address. We do not make offers without interviews or due diligence taking place. You will know if an advert is genuine if you are directed to the Santos company careers page to apply which is recruitment.santos.com.
