AddressAbout 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 Process Control Engineer to join our Operations Engineering & Planning team in Brisbane or Melbourne on a 24 Month Fixed Term Contract.
Reporting to the Team Lead Process Safety Improvement, you will play a key role in providing the technical leadership to deliver systematic improvement to Process Control systems, so that APA can deliver safe, secure and optimised energy to communities.
Key Responsibilities
- Support Process Control validation for all APA assets.
- Develop and deliver control system improvements at site level.
- Engage with a wide range of stakeholders to ensure work delivered aligns with Process Control system improvement strategy.
- Seek and provide feedback to improve alignment with cross functional initiatives.
- Support design reviews, alarm workshops, CHAZOP, HAZOPs and LOPAs with high level Process Control discipline input.
- Enable continuous improvement in various process safety processes and systems.
About You
- Tertiary qualification in Electrical/Electronic/Control Systems Engineering
- Extensive Process Control experience in oil and gas, petrochemical or power assets
- Chartered Professional Engineer or Chartership underway
- Experience with developing integrated designs across PLC, RTU, SIS, SCADA, HMI, and operations historian systems and enterprise reporting systems
- Knowledge of IEC61131-3 PLC/RTU programming languages and system.
- Experience with industrial control system and safety system programming and troubleshooting
- HAZOP/CHAZOP/LOPA experience
Not essential but highly desired:
- Functional Safety Certification (CFSP/TUV)
- Experience in Power Transmission, Generation or Renewables
About the Team
The Process Safety team is part of the wider Engineering and Planning team that support APA's Operation. The process safety team collaborate and partner with other teams to ensure that APA is operating within the target process risk. We now have an opportunity for an experienced engineer to impact APA's process safety performance and maturity to join us on a 24 month fixed term contract.
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, 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 Sunday 24th March 2024. Role Reference number 5708.
