General Manager Engineering & Technical Standards

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 are seeking a General Manager Engineering & Technical Standards to lead a critical Operations function. Reporting to the Group Executive Operations, this role will strengthen how engineering is governed, prioritised and delivered across APA, with a clear focus on engineering integrity, process safety, technical standards, and assurance.

This is a significant enterprise leadership opportunity for a highly credible technical leader who can bring structure, discipline and influence to a complex engineering environment. The role will be accountable for establishing and embedding engineering standards, technical frameworks and assurance processes across APA’s operating asset base.

About You

You are a respected engineering leader with strong technical credibility, sound enterprise judgement and the ability to influence outcomes across a complex organisation. Combining deep engineering expertise with authentic leadership, you will have a proven track record of uplifting standards, strengthening assurance and leading meaningful change while building engaged, high-performing teams.

Your experience will ideally include:

• Deep engineering leadership experience within oil and gas, power, energy infrastructure or other asset intensive industries, with extensive knowledge of engineering standards, governance, asset reliability and regulatory compliance.
• Proven success leading large, diverse engineering teams, including leaders of leaders, while developing capability, succession and high performance cultures.
• Demonstrated experience establishing, Technical Authority Frameworks and embedding effective assurance, risk management and engineering governance practices.
• Strong process safety expertise, including Major Hazard Facility (MHF) compliance, safety case reviews and engineering integrity management.
• Experience transforming engineering functions through improved processes, operating models and ways of working, while balancing technical rigour with commercial, operational and strategic priorities.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and influencing capability, with experience working across regulators, industry bodies, executive leadership teams and Boards.
• Bachelor of Engineering qualification as a minimum; MBA or postgraduate qualifications will be highly regarded.

Leadership attributes

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• Technical credibility — respected by senior engineers, operational leaders and executive stakeholders.
• Strategic execution — able to translate complex engineering priorities into clear, actionable outcomes.
• Operational excellence — focused on improving work practices, efficiency, productivity and digital enablement.
• People leadership — able to build accountable, skilled and diverse teams, with a strong focus on development and coaching.
• Constructive challenge — confident making evidence-based decisions and providing clear challenge on safety, risk and engineering integrity.
• Enterprise mindset — collaborative, systems-oriented and focused on the highest-value work across APA.

Working at APA

At APA, we’re committed to fostering a safe and inclusive workplace where you can achieve your best.

We offer targeted career development programs designed to accelerate your career, competitive remuneration, employee benefits, flexible working arrangements, and wellbeing initiatives are all part of what we’ll offer you. Our inclusive parental leave policy offers 18 weeks of leave, including superannuation, to support parents at work and in life.

We employ around 2,000 people across Australia and are committed to building a high-performing, customer-focused organisation where everyone feels safe, valued, and trusted to perform at their best.

We are APA

At APA, we’re taking on one of Australia’s greatest challenges:​ the energy transition.​ We’re not doing it alone. We’re doing it as Australia’s energy infrastructure partner, a role our unique experience and expertise positions us to play.​

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We proudly own, operate and manage a diverse $20 billion portfolio of 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 focused 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.

Role closes on Saturday, 19 September 2026. Role Reference Number: JR4753

APA Group will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies.

We will contact successful candidates after the closing date.