About Us
Santos is a global energy company committed to increasingly cleaner energy and fuels production, with operations across Australia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and North America.

We are currently PNG’s largest single investor and most active explorer, operating all the country’s producing oil fields and holding an extensive appraisal and exploration portfolio. Our aspirations and strategies reflect our genuine commitment to making a meaningful contribution to the lives of Papua New Guineans.

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 supplier, 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 70 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.

About the Role
The primary objective of this site-based position is to ensure reliable safe production with a focus on fast loop engineering providing front-line engineering support to the Operations and Maintenance teams in the PNG assets.

It is a critical role in connecting field operations with the offsite maintenance and reliability support organisation and is focussed on helping minimise downtime and failure rates and maximise equipment productivity.

Key accountabilities include:

• Provide technical advice to stakeholders where failures have occurred or changes to existing instrumentation, control and power distribution systems are contemplated.
• Carry out troubleshooting and fault finding on complex issues associated with the electrical and instrumentation equipment.
• Provide support during complex troubleshooting activities and technical support during return to plan scenarios to minimise production risk and downtime.
• Identify production/operational risks related to the E&I equipment. Support risk assessment and drive risks to closure by rectification, upgrades, etc.
• Participate in and support failure investigations and root cause analyses. If required, lead 5-whys investigations in the E&I space.
• Develop and review maintenance procedures to ensure ongoing safe operation and maintenance of equipment in line with legislation and corporate standards.
• Participate in technical audits and compliance assessments, and follows up on closure of remedial action plans.

About You
Your aptitude for practical work, coupled with strong analytical skills is vital for this role, along with:

• 5 years of experience in electrical, control and instrument equipment engineering.
• Experience in maintenance management systems.
• Working knowledge of Reliability Based processes such as RCM.
• Experience in root cause analysis.
• Experience with HV and LV equipment and power system analysis software.

Essential qualifications include B. Engineering (Electrical or Instrument) and IEPNG Eligibility for Registered Engineer.

How to Apply
Applications must be submitted via the online recruitment system before 3rd of January, 2025.

Please click on the following link to apply: https://recruitment.santos.com/

A requirement of this role is that you will need to have in place the legal work rights for PNG 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 https://recruitment.santos.com/