Western Australia, Australia
Job Family Group:
Real Estate
Worker Type:
Regular
Posting Start Date:
February 4, 2026
Business Unit:
HR Corporate Functions
Experience Level:
Experienced Professionals
Job Description:
Real Estate (RE) manages the Group's Real Estate portfolio, Shell Business Operations, and Corporate Travel programme. Our mission is to enable Shell Businesses to achieve their goals by creating safe, secure, and productive environments that allow people to perform at their best.
The RE scope includes offices, industrial / labs and accommodation for Shell Businesses, Projects and Ventures. RE has a daily impact on over 80,000 employees and contractors by creating inspiring experiences.
Our 2030 ambition
We balance an ambition to be competitive, purposeful and resilient. Partnerships and Technology are key enablers of our strategy.
Shell's RE team of professionals has established a strong reputation as mature Corporate Real Estate organisation, delivering portfolio strategies, commercial transactions, capital projects, facility and business operations services and travel support to the various Shell Businesses and Functions in all parts of the world. Therefore, RE continues to seek the best talent across Shell to become part of our team, and to help us meet these dynamic and growing business needs.
What's the role
Within Real Estate, the Facility Management (FM) team plans, manages and operates the sites for the Businesses. This is done in a safe and competitive way, using fit for business processes and practices, and competent staff and contractors.
The FM team provide and operate workplaces and facilities that enable the businesses to focus on their targets.
As the RE Lead West Australia, you will take ownership of leading the RE Facilities Management for Shell's Corporate Office and Assets based on the West Coast of Australia. This includes supporting Shell's flagship Prelude business, and the West Coast Non-Operated Ventures in Australia.
What you'll be doing
More specifically your role will include:
* You will provide visible Safety leadership and management of HSE arrangements across all RE Facilities to deliver the Goal Zero ambition.
* You will ensure all facilities are operated in accordance with the standards and recommendations in the Shell WorkWell guide and Shell Performance Framework.
* You will work as an active member of the country RE Leadership Team supporting the Head of Real Estate with the development and implementation of functional strategy.
* As RE Lead West Australia, you will lead creation of and develop long-term strategies for the West Coast facilities, aligned to the global Real Estate ambition, through strong relationships with senior leaders and business focal points.
* As IFM Contract Holder, you are expected to deliver top quartile pre- and post-award contract performance management through visible leadership, effective negotiating and influencing, coaching and governance to ensure delivery of high value services within RE Australia
* You will drive business performance management across all West Coast facilities management services including accountability for business planning cycles, forecasting, cost control and regular performance reviews.
What you bring
We are keen to hear from people who have a strong commercial, financial or technical background, preferably with proven work experience in complex corporate environments. Beyond that, we'd hope to see as many of the following as possible on your Resume:
* Experienced in leading facilities management across multiple large-scale operating sites
* Skilled in Contract Management and Negotiations
* Strong safety leadership with resilience, commercial focus, external awareness, and the ability to work and lead effectively through uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity, and incomplete information.
* Proven stakeholder management and business partnering capability, able to influence senior leaders, communicate at all levels, collaborate across functions, and foster team‑wide leadership and high‑performance behaviours.
* Demonstrated learner mindset with curiosity, reflection, and the ability to create an empowering environment that drives clarity of intent, priorities, outcomes, and maximizes performance across organisational boundaries.
* Passionate and determined in delivering high‑quality services; able to identify and realise commercial opportunities with speed and simplicity while operating from the West Coast of Australia.
APPLICATION PERIOD WILL RUN UNTIL FEBRUARY 18.
What we offer
You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You'll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You'll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.
* Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.
* Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.
* Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.
* Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.
* Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.
* Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.
* Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance-related salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world.
* Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.
* Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.
* Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and
* international teams.
* Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.
Note: We are keen to support flexible working arrangements, subject to local regulations and legislative frameworks. If this is of interest to you, please describe in your application the type of flexible working arrangements for which you would like to be considered (e.g., part-time, job share).
We'd like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world's most diverse and inclusive companies. You can get to know more about how we're working towards that goal, click here.
We are committed to attracting a broader and more diverse pool of candidates. If this position doesn't feel like the perfect fit for your qualifications right now, we'd still love to hear from you. Consider creating a profile in our Talent Community so we can keep you in mind for future opportunities that may align with your skills.
Shell in Australia
Shell has operated in Australia since 1901. From operating Australia's first oil refinery, which was central to meeting Australia's fuel needs, to fuelling the first Qantas commercial flight in the 1920s, to playing a foundation role in building some of Australia's largest and most innovative natural resource developments.
Throughout this 124-year relationship the needs of our customers and the nation have changed and we have continued transforming our portfolio to meet these needs. Today, we are a leading natural gas producer and are playing our part in the transition to a low-carbon future by investing in the power sector, renewable energy sources and carbon abatement activities.
Shell has a significant Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) business in Australia that makes a valuable contribution to today's energy supply. This integrated gas portfolio includes our two Shell-operated gas production and liquefaction businesses, Shell QGC in Queensland and Prelude Floating LNG offshore in Western Australia, and our joint venture interests in Gorgon and North West Shelf in Western Australia and Arrow Energy in Queensland.
Today, Shell's portfolio in Australia also includes zero- and low-carbon energy businesses such as commercial and industrial retailer, Shell Energy carbon farming specialist, Select Carbon the 120MW Gangarri solar development; residential energy retailer, Powershop Australia a 49% stake in WestWind Australia a 50% share of Kondinin Energy and several grid-scale Battery Energy Storage Solutions projects. High quality Shell branded fuels and lubricants are available right across Australia, through an exclusive brand license arrangement with Viva Energy.
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