Project Manager

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 now have an exciting opportunity available for a Project Manager to join us in our Infrastructure Delivery team in Brisbane or Melbourne on a full-time basis and plays a critical part in delivering APA’s major infrastructure and capital works projects.

Reporting to the Head of Construction Gas, you will play a key role in delivering major pipeline and infrastructure projects, ensuring they are executed safely, efficiently, and in line with business objectives.

In this role, you will lead end-to-end project delivery, managing scope, schedule, cost, and risk while coordinating contractors, suppliers, and internal teams to achieve successful outcomes. You will build strong relationships with stakeholders and regulators, provide clear reporting and insights to leadership, and drive a high-performance, safety-focused culture across all project activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the successful delivery of major pipeline and infrastructure construction projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives

• Manage all aspects of project delivery including scope, schedule, cost, risk, and quality

• Promote and embed a strong health, safety, and environmental culture, ensuring a focus on zero harm

• Oversee and coordinate contractors, suppliers, and project teams to deliver on project milestones and performance targets

• Provide timely, accurate reporting and insights to senior leadership and key stakeholders

• Develop and maintain effective stakeholder and community relationships, ensuring compliance with regulatory and approval requirements

Your background

• Demonstrated capability in delivering linear infrastructure or pipeline construction projects from concept through to completion

• Demonstrated capability in managing large construction contracts, ideally collaborative style contracts such as NEC4 Option C.

• Demonstated understanding of project approval pathways and working with teams who manage access and approvals.

• Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to manage project risks, control costs, and deliver value-driven outcomes

• Proven leadership skills, with experience guiding multidisciplinary teams and driving high-performance cultures

• Highly developed stakeholder management capability, including engagement with contractors, regulators, and senior leadership

• Advanced skills in project planning, scheduling, and risk management within dynamic and complex delivery environments

• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships and drive alignment across diverse stakeholders

About the Team

Infrastructure Delivery (ID) supports APA’s growth by securing approvals and delivering the design, procurement, construction and commissioning of major infrastructure projects. 

Part of ID, the Project Delivery team leads the safe and efficient delivery of APA’s capital growth projects, from development to operational integration, working closely with Energy Solutions and Operations to ensure projects are delivered on time, on budget and to APA’s safety and quality standards. This includes covering constructability, project management and delivery, contractor oversight, commissioning, safety, risk, and assurance.

This is an exciting time for the Project Delivery team, with the recent announcement of Stage 3 of APA’s East Coast Gas Grid (ECGG) Expansion Plan, which is expected to add approximately 30% additional transport capacity and address projected southern market gas shortfalls from 2028. 

The Project Delivery team will play an integral role in the successful delivery of ECGG projects to increase north to south capacity, which will be essentially for supplying gas to southern markets.

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.

APA Group will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies.

We will contact successful candidates after the closing date.