Santos
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
The primary objective of the Commissioning Technician is to lead and drive excellence in Development Execution’s (DevEx) commissioning and start-up activities. This includes ensuring the integration of new skid installations, facilities, and associated infrastructure across Eastern Queensland, Cooper Basin, Northern Territory & Narrabri.
The Commissioning Technician role demands a focus on safety, quality, and efficiency while collaborating with diverse teams and stakeholders to deliver low-cost operational outcomes.
This is a 2:2 FIFO role with Brisbane as the point of hire.
Key accountabilities include:
- Ensure Company and contractor personnel comply with the Company Management System (SMS) and contractor safe work procedures through critical control verifications, interactions, and participation in investigations, audits, and toolbox meetings.
- Recognise driving as a high-risk activity and ensure driving is always done to conditions (measured by IVMS index).
- Promptly report or escalate all safety, environmental, cultural heritage, and land access matters, incidents, or near misses in accordance with DevEx’s escalation procedure.
- Develop and maintain healthy relationships with the team, contractors, and other Company stakeholders (e.g. Production Operations).
- Proactively minimise the risk of construction or well online schedule delays.
- Coordinate or participate in the Ready For Start Up (RFSU) process as required.
- Submit or coordinate Ready For Operation (RFO) / Operations Acceptance (OA) of newly commissioned assets.
- Challenge and continuously improve standard practices and work methods.
- Upload Commissioning Dossier to the Commissioning SharePoint in accordance with DevEx’s CSU Plan.
About You
You bring solid experience in the oil & gas or mining industry and the technical expertise required to meet Santos standards. You excel in dynamic environments, work well in teams, and are focused on delivering high-quality results. With a strong safety-first mindset and a drive for continuous improvement, you’re ready to contribute to successful commissioning and start-up activities.
For this role, your Certificate III in Engineering (Mechanical Trade) as well as Certificate III in Process Plant Operations will be highly regarded to ensure the highest level of safety, compliance, and technical excellence in commissioning and start-up activities.
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 4th March 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/
To apply for this job please visit recruitment.santos.com.