Senior Pipeline Engineer

About Us

APA is a leading Australian energy infrastructure business. We own and/or manage and operate a diverse, $22 billion portfolio of gas, electricity, solar and wind assets. Consistent with our purpose to strengthen communities through responsible energy, we deliver approximately half of the nation’s gas usage and connect Victoria with South Australia, Tasmania with Victoria and New South Wales with Queensland through our investments in electricity transmission assets. We are also one of the largest owners and operators of renewable power generation assets in Australia, with wind and solar projects across the country. 

We employ more than 2,200 people across Australia and know that they are the key to our success. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive culture, where all our people feel safe, valued, and trusted to do their best every day.

The Opportunity

We now have an exciting opportunity available for a Senior Pipeline Engineer to join us in our Infrastructure Engineering team in Brisbane or Melbourne on a full-time permanent basis. 

Reporting to the Team Lead Bid Support, you will lead the pipeline design for conceptual and develop phase opportunities providing input to project scope and cost estimates. This exciting role will support greenfield and brownfield conventional Natural Gas Pipelines and associated facilities as well as the exciting new future energy projects including Hydrogen, Carbon Dioxide and Ammonia Storage and Transportation Pipelines. 

With the increasing demand for renewable gas and net zero energy pipeline and storage solutions, the team is seeking a new member to join our early phase engineering team.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as lead Pipeline Engineer for APAs concept and develop projects.
• Prepare front end engineering design documentation including calculations and optimisation of pipeline design outputs (including wall thickness, pipeline assemblies stress analysis, fracture toughness, fatigue, road crossing, penetration resistance, hydrotest etc), Fracture Control Plan, Pipeline Isolation Plan, Material Take off, technical specifications, reports, drawings etc.
• Ensure engineering and design documentation prepared by APA, external engineering service providers, or vendors meets project/stakeholder requirements, statutory and licence requirements, applicable APA, Australian and international standards, in particular AS2885;
• Consider project specific requirements at concept and develop level of maturity for line pipe procurement, induction bends, MIJ, pipeline valves, pipeline high strength fittings, pipeline inspection and coating, desktop geotech investigation, desktop Pipeline Route Surveys. 
• Develop project specific venting and isolation philosophies for assigned concept and develop projects.
• Responsible for preliminary AS2885 Safety Management Studies (SMS) including preparation, planning and close out of actions.

Your background 

• Tertiary qualification in Mechanical or Civil Engineering admitting to corporate membership of the Institution of Engineers, Australia or equivalent (Required),
• Chartered or Registered Professional Engineer (Preferred and eligible for admission),
• Working knowledge of gas pipeline industry including equipment such as valves, actuators or pipe traps etc,
• Knowledge and practical use of Australian and International Pipeline and related Standards (AS2885, ASME B31.3, B31.8, and B31.12).  Must have knowledge and exposure to associated Australian and International reference standards,
• Experience with Australian Natural Gas Pipelines is essential, experience with Hydrogen, Carbon Dioxide and Ammonia is favourable

About the Team 

To support APA’s progression and expansion to renewable solutions, we are positioning ourselves to support Australia in continuing to have access to reliable, flexible and affordable energy solutions with significantly lower carbon emissions. To ensure APA’s commitments to future growth to renewables is attainable, we sponsor and contribute to world class resource and material development in Australia and globally.

The Bid Support team is part of the Projects Development, Innovation and Assurance team providing front end design (concept and develop) on all APA major gas pipeline projects and pipeline relocation projects in Australia. This financial year the team has provided solutions for multiple Natural Gas Pipeline transportation and storage, as well as new Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide Pipeline opportunities.

This is an exciting time for the team, we need people who are courageous, nimble, and ready to make an impact.

Working at APA 

APA is an equal opportunity employer. The safety and sustainability of our people, community and environment is our focus. We embrace diversity in our people to ensure our workforce is representative of the communities that we operate in.

APA provides you with access to targeted career development programs, competitive remuneration, employee benefits, and work–life balance and wellbeing programs. APA also have an inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents throughout their parenting journey. 

Applicants must be eligible to work in Australia to be considered.

Sound like your kind of career? We’d love to hear from you.

Role closes Wednesday 13th of March 2024. Role Reference number 5823.

PD is available on request by emailing ***********@apa.com.au quoting reference number above