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General Information

Location:
Adelaide
Ref#:
ATR 474605

Description & Requirements

About Us 

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 

We are looking for a motivated professional with experience in operational risk management and Process safety with demonstrable passion in driving safety excellence?  

As the Process Safety Engineer you will act as the Asset Focal Point and provide process safety engineering input and technical assistance across all Santos’ EAPNG operated midstream assets and projects. This role will foster and support a process safety mind set and culture within operated facilities and projects ensuring effective operational risk management, and process safety in design. 

*** Site travel to Santos’ regional facilities expected every 2 to 3 months***

Key accountabilities include:   

  • Act as a Process Safety focal point and provide operational risk management support. 
  • Development and operationalisation of Safety Assessment (Bowties) in Santos operated assets 
  • Embed and enhance use of Integrated Risk Register tool 
  • Provide process safety assistance, facilitate, review and lead technical investigations 
  • Foster effective risk management processes ensuring quality scenario-based risk assessment 
  • Monitor asset risk profile health and support assets to close gapsFoster a culture of weak signal identification & escalation 
  • Steward and influence relevant operations governance metrics  
  • Ensure Process safety barrier health is appropriately supported by accountable SMEs through continuous improvements and learnings from incidents. 
  • Identify and pursue opportunities for systematic process improvement and efficiency including usage of data analytics. 
  • Audit and maintain oversight over performance standard health 
  • Provide support as a Change Management SME for facility engineering changes. 
  • Assist relevant assets in operating in line with relevant regulatory requirements/conditions 
  • Support professional development of junior and graduate process safety engineers. 

About You 

To be successful in this role, we are seeking for professionals with demonstrated experience in the following: 

  • Demonstrated experience in operations support in the Oil and Gas industry 
  • Experience in Process Safety support for Operations and Projects in the Oil & Gas industry. 
  • Experience in CMMS, BowTie XP and Phast software is highly desirable 
  • Experience with Process Hazard Assessments including HAZID, HAZOP and LOPA.  
  • Qualification in Functional Safety Engineering desirable. 

You hold an accredited degree/tertiary qualification in Chemical/Mechanical/Electrical Engineering, working towards/ Chartered  Engineer or equivalent and  RPEQ accreditation..  

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 28th February 2025   
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 
https://recruitment.santos.com/