Shutdown Event Lead

Santos is a global low-cost producer of oil and gas committed to ever-cleaner energy and fuels production with operations across Australia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and North America.

At Santos, our commitment is to be a global leader in the transition to cleaner energy and clean fuels, by helping the world decarbonise to reach net-zero emissions in an affordable and sustainable way.

Santos is one of Australia's biggest domestic gas suppliers, a leading Asia Pacific LNG supplier and is committed to supplying the critical fuels such as oil and gas in a more sustainable way through decarbonising projects such as the Moomba CCS project.

For more than 65 years, Santos has been working in partnership with local communities, providing local jobs and business opportunities, safely and sustainably developing its natural gas resources, and powering industries and households.

With a strong, low-cost base business supplying oil and gas and a clear action plan to develop cleaner energy and clean fuels, Santos remains resilient, value accretive and at the leading edge of the energy transition.

With a global portfolio of operations, we offer a diverse and inclusive environment with extraordinary career opportunities. Our strategy is to focus on creating a safe work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values and objectives, and where the capability of our people is key to our success.

About the role

The Midstream Shutdown team has a great opportunity for a Shutdown Lead (Onshore). Located in Perth and reporting to the Shutdown Team Leader of Midstream Infrastructure. This role is responsible for safe and effective delivery of shutdown events across the midstream business. While the role is Perth based it is expected that a reasonable amount of field time will be required.

In addition, you will also be accountable for providing project technical services that deliver fit for purpose solutions to maximise value to the operation.

Accountabilities of the role are in line with the Santos company values and Santos Management System (SMS). Responsibilities include (but not limited to) :

• Maximising resource and asset effectiveness by working closely with asset areas and relevant support departments.
• Ensuring that the event ownership, methodology and objectives are clearly defined, understood, and agreed by all stakeholders.
• Ensuring that the Event Planning Milestones are met, processes are followed or where deviations are unavoidable a clear concise action plan is in place to return the schedule back on track.
• Ensuring that a total resource profile for each event is accurately reflected, and all reasonable optimisation opportunities, resource constraints or supplementary resource requirements have been identified and clearly communicated within timeframes.
• Ensuring that an event timeline exists for all medium to large events and it is fully optimised with a very clear critical path.
• Ensuring the event's planned costs are within budget constraints with any exceptions communicated to and endorsed by the relevant asset manager.
• Ensuring that all milestones, event gating and readiness requirements are met, adequate monitoring is in place throughout the preparation, planning, gating, execution and close out processes to ensure actions and escalations are in place.
• Managing seconded labour and supervision, and assigned contractors for shutdown events

About you

To be successful in this role you will need to display a comprehensive and broad knowledge of the energy industry and associated legislation, regulations, and project management techniques as well as management of high value engineering and construction contracts. Experience as a Power user of scheduling and project management tools such as Primavera, MS Project, and Asset / Maintenance management tools such as Maximo, SAP will be an advantage.

Imperative to the role you will bring a proven ability to identify and deliver value improvement opportunities to reduce capital expenditure. If this opportunity sounds like a role, you would be interested in, then we want to hear from you

• 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

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