The National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) is Australia's independent expert regulator for health and safety, structural integrity, well integrity and environmental management for all offshore energy operations and greenhouse gas storage activities in Commonwealth waters, and in coastal waters where regulatory powers and functions have been conferred.

NOPSEMA also administers the functions of the Offshore Infrastructure Regulator (OIR), for the offshore renewables industry. This includes the regulation of work health and safety, infrastructure integrity, and environmental management for offshore renewable energy infrastructure activities.

Working with NOPSEMA provides an chance to make a real difference to people working in Australia’s offshore energy industry.

NOPSEMA maintains a temporary employment register of interested applicants to fill Non-ongoing (fixed term) roles for periods of up to 12 months within its Regulatory Operations Division.

NOPSEMA may use the register to fill Non-ongoing (fixed term), full-time, part-time or casual positions in its Perth or Melbourne Offices, depending on business requirements in the following areas:

- Asset integrity programs associated with ageing assets.
- Process safety and technical safety.
- Construction vessel operations.
- Control and instrumentation.
- Design notification.
- Diving – commercial diving - offshore petroleum.
- Drilling operations.
- Drilling, completions, and intervention and / or petroleum engineering, production technology and sub-surface disciplines.
- Heavy lift operations.
- Investigation and compilation of briefs of evidence of accidents,



dangerous occurrences and reportable incidents.
- Light well intervention.
- Marine operations associated with offshore petroleum facilities including FPSOs, MODUs and moored platforms.
- Class and marine systems.
- Mechanical engineering - offshore petrochemical facilities.
- Offshore energy facilities, including renewables (fixed or marine) – overall asset integrity management, including reliability basement, inspection, preventative and remedial maintenance and modification programs.
- Offshore energy facility, construction (including subsea), pipelay, structural, or marine engineering including naval architecture.
- Operational management.
- Pipeline engineering, design, construction, operation, and integrity management of petroleum pipelines.
- Planning, design, construction, operation and management of wells and well control.
- Process engineering including LNG.
- Reliability engineering – predictive and proactive maintenance management in offshore petrochemical facilities.
- Risk management.
- Vessel-based decommissioning.

Please be aware that you will only be contacted if a position arises that matches the skills and experience as described by you in your application.

How to apply:

Your application should include a current resume and a covering letter (no more than two A4 pages) detailing relevant skills,



knowledge and experience in the area(s) in which you express an interest in working.

Applications submitted to NOPSEMA’s Temporary Employment Register will remain active until 30 September 2026. If you wish to remain on the register after this date, you will need to re-apply.

Your application will be held online, and you will be able to access, retrieve and update your application and resume should you wish to re-apply.

NOPSEMA is committed to a fair, flexible, safe and rewarding workplace which allows for diversity amongst all its employees. Applicants who are First Nations people, come from a diverse cultural or linguistic background or have a disability are encouraged to apply.

Applications must be submitted by the closing date.

Responsibilities undertaken within the Division may include:

- Assessment of safety cases, well operations management plans and related safety submissions;
- Inspect offshore operations and support NOPSEMA’s investigations of accidents, incidents and complaints, including well operations and well integrity management;
- Regulatory compliance action in accordance with NOPSEMA processes.

To be eligible for non-ongoing employment with NOPSEMA, you:
- must be an Australian Citizen;
- may be required to undertake pre-employment checks, including health, character and declaration of any real or perceived conflicts of interest;
- must satisfy any mandatory qualification requirements or security assessment applicable for the position.
- NOPSEMA staff are prohibited from trading in oil and gas resources and / or offshore renewable electricity sector shares.

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