Head of Engineering Management

The Opportunity

At APA, our purpose is to secure Australia’s energy future. We’re not doing it alone. We’re doing it with our customers and communities as Australia’s energy infrastructure partner, a role our unique experience and expertise positions us to play.

We now have an exciting opportunity available for a Head of Engineering Management to join us in our Infrastructure Delivery team on a full-time permanent basis.

Reporting to the General Manager, Infrastructure Engineering, you will provide strategic leadership for the Engineering Management function, ensuring the delivery of fit‑for‑purpose engineering designs for Gas Transmission and Storage projects, post Financial Investment Decision. This includes FEED through to delivery support. You will be accountable for strong interface management with APA’s Engineering Strategic Partner for all greenfield capital projects, while also leveraging internal engineering capability to deliver brownfield projects and as Owner’s Engineering support. This role plays a critical part in supporting the transformation of APA’s infrastructure engineering model, enabling consistent, high‑quality technical outcomes across APA’s capital growth portfolio by optimising internal capability, external partnership ensuring end‑to‑end engineering governance.

The location for this role is flexible and hybrid; we will consider locations all over Australia.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the transformation (establishment), strategic development, optimisation and governance of the Engineering Management function, ensuring structure, processes and talent support for the capital project pipeline.

• Manage and develop the internal Owner’s Engineer team (Engineering Managers and Project Engineers), building a high‑performing engineering delivery capability across gas transmission and storage projects.

• Establish, maintain and lead strong interface with APA’s Engineering Strategic Partner, ensuring high‑quality technical outputs, efficient delivery, value improvement and consistent performance across projects.

• Oversee technical lifecycle progression of projects post-FID from pre‑FEED through to detailed design and delivery support.

• Deliver technical assurance, quality, compliance and technical integrity across all engineering deliverables, including rigorous engineering change control and proactive management of technical risks.

Your background

• Demonstrated people leadership, with experience leading Engineering Managers and Project Engineers through transformation and new ways of working in a fast‑paced capital delivery environment.

• Strong technical assurance capability across engineering design, change control, construction and compliance

• Commercial and contract management experience with engineering design consultancies and technical service providers

• Financial acumen in budget forecasting and resource optimisation

• Highly effective at building strong, collaborative relationships with stakeholders across Operations, Procurement, Development and Project Delivery teams​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

About the Team

The Engineering Management team sits within the Infrastructure Delivery division and plays a critical role in delivering APA’s gas transmission and storage capital projects pipeline. We are responsible for ensuring that engineering designs, technical requirements and project solutions are safe, compliant and meet customer and operational needs.

With a large portfolio of capital projects underway, our team works collaboratively across a matrix environment including Project Delivery, Operations, Development and external design partner. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a high‑performing engineering function, develop breadth of organisational capability and contribute to the successful delivery of major gas transmission and storage projects across Australia.

Working at APA

At APA we’re committed to fostering a safe and inclusive workplace where you can achieve your best. We’ll provide you with access to targeted career development programs, competitive remuneration, employee benefits, flexible working arrangements, and wellbeing programs. We also have an inclusive parental leave policy providing 18 weeks leave including superannuation to support parents at work and in life.

We employ more than 2700 people across Australia and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture, where everyone feels safe, valued, and trusted to do their best every day.

We are APA

APA Group is a leading Australian energy infrastructure business.

We proudly own, operate and manage a diverse $26 billion portfolio of gas, electricity, solar and wind assets which deliver essential services to communities and customers across Australia. And we own more than 15,000 kilometres of gas pipelines which deliver energy to households and businesses across every corner of Australia.

As the partner of choice in delivering infrastructure solutions for the energy transition, we’re focused on bundled remote grid energy solutions, electricity and gas transmission, and future energy, including hydrogen and carbon capture and storage.

Our customer centric approach means we understand our customers and offer them reliable, innovative, and cost-effective energy solutions that support their decarbonisation ambitions.

We are committed to securing Australia’s energy future by delivering infrastructure solutions for Australia’s energy transition and supporting the decarbonisation ambitions of our customers and communities.

Join our team and be part of securing Australia’s energy future. We’d love to hear from you.

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

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

This vacancy works with critical APA data, systems or infrastructure and candidates are subject to background vetting (including Police checks) before & during employment.

APA Group will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies.

We will contact successful candidates after the closing date.