Santos
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Santos is a global energy company committed to increasingly cleaner energy and fuels production, with operations across Australia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and North America.
We are currently PNG’s largest single investor and most active explorer, operating all the country’s producing oil fields and holding an extensive appraisal and exploration portfolio. Our aspirations and strategies reflect our genuine commitment to making a meaningful contribution to the lives of Papua New Guineans.
At Santos, our commitment is to be a global leader in the transition to cleaner energy and clean fuels, by helping the world decarbonise to reach net-zero emissions in an affordable and sustainable way.
Santos is one of Australia’s biggest domestic gas supplier, a leading Asia Pacific LNG supplier and is committed to supplying the critical fuels such as oil and gas in a more sustainable way through decarbonising projects such as the Moomba CCS project.
For more than 65 years, Santos has been working in partnership with local communities, providing local jobs and business opportunities, safely and sustainably developing its natural gas resources, and powering industries and households.
What you’ll do:
Based in Port Moresby, the Asset Scheduler is a key role responsible for managing the scheduling of all maintenance, reliability, projects, and operations activities. You’ll focus on optimising resources, minimising downtime, and maintaining a strong safety focus.
You’ll lead the 14-, 28-, and 90-day planning cycles, working closely with schedulers, planners, and operations teams to tackle conflicts and deliver the best outcome for the asset.
Every maintenance task flows through you, making you the critical hub that keeps production assets running smoothly.
You’ll also drive improvements, finding smarter ways to schedule and boost overall efficiency.
Key Responsibilities
- Plan, create, and maintain the 14-, 28- and 90-day schedules for the asset, integrating input from projects, operations, maintenance, and other teams.
- Develop and manage a detailed 2-week work calendar by operational area, scheduling daily tasks to maximise resource use and reduce conflicts.
- Optimise schedules against available resources, escalate conflicts, and deliver fully resourced fortnightly plans.
- Minimise production impacts and improve safety by reducing scheduling clashes and identifying work consolidation opportunities.
- Coordinate with materials team to ensure availability of required materials on site.
- Lead scheduling meetings, manage stakeholders, track actions, and drive the scheduling process in line with business timelines.
- Support safety compliance through early scheduling, clear communication, and monitoring of compliance dates.
- Coordinate workload levelling with SSO and campaign schedulers to balance asset work permits.
- Analyse scheduling performance, report KPIs, and recommend improvements.
- Support integrated planners to maintain medium-term schedules and ensure scheduling meets processes, budgets, and priorities.
- Collaborate with planners to ensure work readiness and provide feedback for continuous improvement.
- Ensure compliance with Santos Management System (SMS) and Delegation of Authority (DOA).
What you’ll bring:
Essential Experience
- Advanced expertise in planning, scheduling processes, and logistics coordination.
- Proven operational and engineering experience within the oil and gas sector.
- Demonstrated experience in maintenance activity scheduling.
- Strong analytical skills, able to leverage multiple data sources to deliver effective outcomes.
- High proficiency in Microsoft Excel, SAP, and other ERP or scheduling tools.
- Process-oriented with a focus on continuous improvement and operational efficiency.
Desired Experience
- Experience with Prometheus Scheduling Tool is highly regarded.
- Project management experience is advantageous.
Ideally, you’ll hold a Trade Certificate or Tertiary qualification in Mechanical, Electrical, or Instrumentation disciplines.
What you’ll get:
Here, you’ll be amongst high-calibre people and get to work on industry-leading projects. We don’t shy away from solving tough problems at pace. We like it that way. You can expect to be challenged and supported; to learn and grow.
At Santos, we’re committed to creating a workplace where everyone can thrive. This means a place that is safe; where you are valued and respected, and your contribution is recognised and appreciated. Join us, and you’ll play a role in this too.
Each of our sites offer access to specific amenities that aim to create the best possible benefits to your health, wellbeing and performance.
What you’re part of:
Everywhere you turn you will be a part of a team who are coming together to contribute to our single uniting purpose – to provide reliable and affordable energy to help create a better world for everyone And because it’s not only what you do, but how you do it, you will also contribute to improving the living standards of the communities where we operate, building enduring and respectful relationships that serve a generation. It’s about each of us, and all of us – together.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted via the online recruitment system before COB Wednesday 10th September 2025.
A requirement of this role is that you will need to have in place the legal work rights for PNG to apply.
Potential Scams
There are a number of fake adverts that are impersonating Santos Limited, in these instances you will receive an e-mail from a generic e-mail address. We do not make offers without interviews or due diligence taking place.You will know if an advert is genuine if you are directed to the Santos company careers page to apply which is https://recruitment.santos.com/
To apply for this job please visit recruitment.santos.com.