AddressAbout Us
Santos provides reliable, affordable energy for progress and seeks to provide lower carbon energy over time.
Santos is a global energy company with operations across Australia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and the United States.
At Santos, our goal is to be a global leader in the energy evolution to low-carbon fuels that help the world decarbonise and continue to provide the reliable, affordable energy the world needs for modern life and human progress.
Santos is an important Australian domestic gas supplier and LNG supplier in Asia. We are committed to supplying critical fuels such as oil and gas, and abating emissions through carbon capture and storage, energy efficiency projects, use of renewables in our operations and high-quality offsets. Santos will also seek to develop low-carbon fuels as customer demand evolves.
For 70 years, Santos has been working in partnership with local communities, providing jobs and business opportunities, safely developing natural gas resources and from there powering industries and households.
Santos seeks to deliver long-term value to shareholders through our diverse portfolio of high-quality, long-life, low-cost oil and gas assets, carbon storage resources and infrastructure.
The Santos portfolio is value accretive and resilient across a range of decarbonisation scenarios. Santos has a climate transition action plan that will continue to evolve for the global energy evolution.
Santos has a regional operating model with a strong local focus. The Company’s operating structure comprises three regional business units focused on enabling and executing corporate strategy. Two divisions – Santos Energy Solutions and Santos Upstream Gas and Liquids – are accountable for global portfolio management and strategy.
About the Role
An exciting opportunity to be part of Santos’ Health Safety and Environment team. This is a senior managerial role with broad remit to lead the Health and Safety (H&S) for Eastern Australia and Papua New Guinea (EA&PNG) Regional Business Unit. This is a complex role due to the international scope, multiple regulatory jurisdictions, and diversity of risks.
The core purpose is to support the General Manager HSE to develop and implement the H&S strategic vision for EA&PNG, in alignment with the H&S Function. This incorporates the implementation and continuous improvement of fit for purpose management system, frameworks and programs that centre on preventing harm, minimising risks, meeting compliance obligations and promoting a culture of safety and care across Santos.
This role is based in Brisbane, with ad-hoc travel to Eastern Australia and Papua New Guinea.
Accountabilities are delivered in line with the Santos company values and Santos Management System (SMS). Key responsibilities of the role include:
- Provide H&S leadership, direction, expertise, and support across EA&PNG.
- Actively engage with EA&PNG senior leaders to understand business needs, promote H&S, and drive the most effective outcomes.
- Support the GM HSE to develop, implement and communicate the EA&PNG H&S strategy for improving performance and achieving H&S vision, goals, objectives, and targets.
- Lead, manage, mentor, and develop EA&PNG H&S team members to enable the team to deliver on H&S strategy, objectives, and improvements.
- Work with Functional H&S team to contribute to and support organisational H&S strategy, systems, programs, and initiatives that drive improvements.
- Actively promote a culture of care and curiosity through key programs such as STRIVE, frontline safety leadership program and recognition framework.
- Ensure appropriate H&S operating model is adopted to optimise effectiveness. Build a suitable capability framework to achieve this, with the view that the key role of H&S team is to coach, facilitate, support and build capability of Leaders.
- Support the development of H&S management systems and integrated (layered) assurance plans with HSE Systems and Assurance team.
- Understand, embed into normal everyday operations, and monitor the effectiveness the H&S management system for EA&PNG, inclusive of Santos Life Saving Rules, STRIVE, H&S risk management, contractor management, H&S capability framework, incident investigation and learning, consultation and communication, and assurance, compliance management, emergency management and IMT, occupational hygiene, psychosocial risk.
- Support physical security management for EA sites, including development, implementation, and maintenance of security management plans, with direction from Senior Security Adviser in Health Safety and Security Function.
- Ensure EA&PNG sites/assets and operations have current and workable H&S management plans that outline how key management system, compliance, and risk control requirements relevant to the site are addressed.
About You
We are seeking candidates with strong leadership and engagement skills; demonstrated collaboration and implementation experience with the ability to influence key stakeholders in order to understand H&S needs, develop effective strategies and solutions, and drive continuous improvement. If you are looking for a role where your work will have direct impact on outcomes, this is for you!
Technical competencies for this position are:
- Demonstrated experience in the Oil and gas industry.
- Partner collaboratively, engage and influence across multiple leadership stakeholder groups.
- Experience in leadership/management position including strong leadership capability.
- Strong working knowledge of HSE legislation, risk management, and compliance requirements
- Demonstrated competency in uplifting organisational Health and Safety maturity and capability.
Essential qualifications required for this position are:
- Tertiary qualification in Occupational Health and Safety (Degree or Masters desirable)
- Significant demonstrated experience managing H&S in large, complex organisations and high-risk industry.
- Professional certification with Australian Institute of Health and Safety (or equivalent international body) desirable
- Lead investigator qualifications (ICAM/Taproot) desirable
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 8th March 2024.
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 https://recruitment.santos.com/
