Maintenance Reliability Engineer

Overview

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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 Maintenance Reliability Engineer to join us in our Gas West Asset Engineering and Project Delivery team in Perth on a full time permanent basis. Reporting to the Team Leader Asset Engineering WA, you will play a key role in leading the end-to-end process of asset lifecycle, including asset creation and maintenance strategy development, ensuring assets are accurately listed & classified, assessed for criticality, assigned appropriate maintenance regimes, integrated into operational schedules with robust job plans and work instructions and ultimately reflected in Maximo.

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate inputs from project and operations stakeholders for asset creation, classification, and hierarchy management in Maximo, including metadata updates.
• Lead asset criticality assessments, workshops, and consolidation, ensuring accurate reflection in Maximo.
• Develop, review, and validate maintenance strategies, job plans, and work instructions, including bundling PMs and aligning with operational schedules.
• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency and reliability.
• Maintain compliance with APA governance processes, including MOC, obligations registers, and other regulatory requirements.
• Support the Asset Planning and Performance Team with project prioritisation, and manage associated drawings, tools, and parts lists.

Your background

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering with strong experience in maintenance, reliability, and asset engineering.
• Proven experience across the end-to-end asset lifecycle, including asset creation, criticality assessment, and asset handover to operations.
• Strong knowledge of pipeline and facility assets, including compressor stations, delivery stations, valves, and linear assets.
• Experienced in asset management, maintenance strategy development, and continuous improvement, with hands-on CMMS expertise.
• Advanced user of IBM Maximo, including asset hierarchy, metadata management, criticality setup, and planned maintenance/job plan creation.
• Solid understanding of Management of Change (MOC), obligations management, and compliance with governance frameworks.

About The Team

The Gas West Asset Engineering and Project Delivery team exists to provide engineering and project delivery services to ensure reliable and safe operation of the APA Business Unit Gas West assets. The team enables APA to achieve its business strategy and goals, extract maximum value from its assets, and deliver value for its customers. The team consists of Asset Engineering, Facilities Engineering, Major Maintenance and Gas East West Emergency Services.

This is an exciting time for the team; we need people who are courageous, nimble, and ready to make an impact.

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.

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. 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 of our people, community and environment are 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 Sunday, 18 January 2026. Role Reference Number JR3792. APA Group will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies. We will contact successful candidates after the closing date.

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