Senior Mechanical Engineer

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 for a Sr Mechanical Engineer to be part of our EAPNG Technical Engineering Department. Based at Santos' Brisbane office, this role is to implement and deliver on specific tasks within Cooper Onshore Reliability Engineering's strategic improvement plan as well as actioning base business items. This will be delivered in line with company values and in accordance with Santos Engineering Standards and the Santos Management System.

Travel to the Cooper Basin is expected (occasional, on as need basis).

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Uphold compliance and adherence to standards for EHS performance and behaviour consistent with Company policies and procedures.
• Drive risk reduction across Cooper Onshore assets, via the Integrated Risk Register (IRR) Process.
• Work closely &
  collaboratively with Maintenance &
  Operations Leaders to meet or exceed Production and Reliability targets.
• Provision of fit for purpose 'Fast Loop' and 'Slow Loop' reliability and rotating support/services to internal stakeholders.
• Actively seek opportunities for continuous improvement, cost out and efficiency improvements within the Reliability Management Plan cycle, to deliver asset availability and reliability performance at or above set targets.
• Develop and Maintain Equipment Health Monitoring Systems and Dashboarding.
• Provide asset Management for the Cooper Onshore surface equipment portfolio, inclusive of Asset Reliability KPI reporting incorporating but not limited to wellpad surface equipment, compression and power generation.
• Technical Authority for relevant equipment within Mechanical/Machinery Discipline.
• Manage and own equipment root cause analysis (RCA) investigations.
• Provide mentorship to Junior Engineers.

About You

Ideally, you will have completed a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering (or equivalent) or demonstrate significant training and experience within directly relevant role(s), within large corporate environments.

We are seeking for professionals with the following essential skills and experience:

• Demonstrated years of mechanical engineering experience, preferably in the Oil and Gas industry/ MHF
• Strong knowledge of standards and safe work practices within the Oil and Gas industry/ MHF

Other desirable experience for this position includes:

• Providing indirect leadership of other engineers, trades persons &
  /or operators.
• Scope development for equipment management and condition monitoring programs
• Experience in rotating machinery
• CPEng and RPEQ certification
• A good general understanding of asset management and engineering design practices
• Competent use and knowledge of CMMS (Computerised Maintenance Management System) preferably SAP

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 3rd May 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