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 an Operations and Maintenance Technician – Mechanical to join us in our Operations & Maintenance team in Port Hedland, WA on a full time permanent basis.
Reporting to the Plant Manager, you will play a key role in performing ongoing maintenance and completing repairs on equipment and capital. Your duties include fixing machinery, inspecting systems to confirm safety standards, and scheduling major repairs.
Key Responsibilities
* Performing routine maintenance
* Perform Routine Planned Maintenance on Gas Turbine Equipment and associated balance of plant
* Maintaining the Power Generation equipment in accordance with the annual work plan
* Applying preventative measures to reduce the risk of future problems
* Respond to system faults and unplanned events or breakdowns
* Safety Leadership Identifying and rectifying potential safety hazards
Your background
* Experience in Gas Turbine operations and Maintenance
* Power Generation operations and Maintenance or equivalent Industry experience
* Exposure to planning and executing Turbine planned outages and managing contractors onsite
* Use of CMMS systems – MAXIMO or similar
* Excellent Team Player
* Familiarity with FIFO operations
About the Team
The Operations & Maintenance team exist to safely operate APA Power, Transmission, Midstream and Network assets in an efficient and cost-effective manner to enable APA to achieve its business strategy and goals, extract maximum value from its assets, and deliver value for its customers.
To help APA Securing Australia's Energy Future, the Operations teams focus is on Our People, Operational Excellence and Creating Value. We are also making great strides towards achieving our net zero ambition, enabling APA to be world class in energy solutions.
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.
We are APA
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. 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 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 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 Sunday, 11 January 2026. Role Reference Number JR3653
APA Group will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies.
We will contact successful candidates after the closing date.