Senior Project 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 excellent career development opportunity has arisen for a Senior Project Engineer to join the Santos team. Based at our offices in Brisbane, this position supports the Greenfield Development activities within the Onshore Development Execution team. The Senior Project Engineer provides engineering support to the Cooper Basin Project team to deliver a variety of short &
long term projects to support the Well Delivery Development Program. The position is responsible for supporting scope development, engineering, design, construction and ensuring adequate stakeholder engagement during the project lifecycle.

Key accountabilities include:

• Ensuring engineering scope, activities, and decision-making outcomes are aligned with project objectives and strategies.
• Frame, support and mature key project technical decisions.
• Ensure key project development deliverables are developed in line with the Santos Opportunity Delivery Process (ODP).
• Due diligence in the early project phases to ensure the project scope, schedule and estimate are defined appropriately.
• Support integration of technical and non-technical work fronts into key project deliverables and documentation.
• Manage engineering scopes performed by external service providers ensuring quality, safety, schedule and cost meet required standards.

About You

Holding a Tertiary qualification in Engineering and ideally Project Management Qualifications and Registered Professional Engineer or Chartered Engineer status, it is essential that the ideal candidate can demonstrate experience with conventional and/or unconventional oil and gas production in development and operations phases, along with extensive experience in engineering and/or project engineering related roles.

Further to this any experience in the following will be looked upon favourably:

• Exposure to project delivery processes from Define to Execute phase.
• Experience with greenfield projects and the associated complexities.
• Good understanding of hydrocarbon production systems, gathering networks and processing facilities including produced water management.
• Track record of applying technically innovative solutions to complex development challenges

If this sounds like the ideal role for you, do not hesitate, 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 8th May 2024.

A requirement of this role is that you will need to have in place the legal work rights for Australia to apply. (Remove if advertised position is outside of Australia).

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