Location: Perth, WA (site travel as required)
Employment Type: 12-month contract (40 hrs per week)

Reporting to: Engineering Manager (or delegate)

About the Role:

We are seeking a broadly skilled, motivated Facilities Engineer / Engineering Response Lead with 10–15 years of facilities experience and a strong work ethic to support the safe, reliable, and compliant operation of facilities within our oil and gas operations . This role is critical in ensuring general field infrastructure, process equipment, and utilities support safe production, maintenance, and operational continuity across our brownfield assets.

You will lead a small, multidisciplinary team of system engineers and work closely with Operations, Maintenance, Asset Integrity, HSE, and external contractors to manage, maintain, troubleshoot, and implement improvements to various facility systems.

Key Responsibilities:

- Oversee and troubleshoot facility issues and breakdowns as the initial engineering response focal point.

- Manage a team of system and project engineers.

- Prepare and manage CAPEX budgets.

- Ensure facilities comply with the Safety Case, technical specifications, industry codes, standards, and regulations.

- Provide technical advice to Engineering and Operations teams.

- Apply and facilitate Management of Change process across the operation.

- Manage small- to medium-sized interdisciplinary engineering, cost-reduction, and optimisation projects from concept through execution and close-out.

- Support facilities-related capital works, shutdowns, and upgrades.

- Collaborate with subsurface teams to prepare and execute downhole campaigns.

- Coordinate and supervise contractors in site environments.

- Conduct audits and participate in risk assessments including HAZID and HAZOP studies.

- Lead and support failure, incident, and non-conformance investigations, implementing corrective actions as required.





- Review and manage design documentation, technical reports, SOWs, performance standards, audit reports, and CMMS data.

- Support incident response operations.

- Demonstrate strong engagement with the Company’s vision, engineering processes, business governance processes, internal stakeholders, and external contractors and consultants.

Qualifications and Experience:

Required:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Mechanical or Process desirable).

- 10–15 years of experience and broad technical expertise in facilities engineering or engineering response within the oil and gas industry.

- Strong commitment to safety leadership, hazard identification, and risk mitigation.

- Robust understanding of:

- Safety Case regime

- Safety management systems (MoC, risk management, performance standards, PTW, specific work guidelines, etc.)

- Oil and gas production and process streams, and associated process, utility, and plant equipment.

- Experience managing team members, engineering consultants, contractors, and service agreements.

- Strong communication, planning, and stakeholder engagement skills.

- Experience with SAP (CMMS) and asset management systems.

- Knowledge of asset integrity and lifecycle management.

Preferred:

- Experience in offshore and/or onshore oil and gas operations.

- Brownfield operations and shutdown experience on upstream and midstream (or downstream) facilities.

- Troubleshooting and reliability for rotating (diesel engines, dual-fuel turbines, compressors, pumps, etc.).

- Project engineering or capital works delivery experience.

- Current offshore training and certifications, including BOSIET or FOET with CA-EBS, MSIC, Working at Heights (WAH), Confined Space Entry (CSE), and Permit to Work (PTW).

What We Offer:

- Competitive wage.

- Development in multidisciplinary team leadership.

- Broad facilities engineering experience in a small, robust, and well-supported team.

📌 Facilities Engineer (Engineering Response) – Oil & Gas (Perth)
🏢 Vermilion Energy
📍 Perth