Senior Systems Engineer (Oil & Gas)

Airswift; Perth; Vor Ort; AUD 199.000 - 249.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

INPEX Australia in Perth is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to oversee the CCS/BCCS project. You will drive end-to-end system engineering for CO2 transport, injection, and storage, ensuring integration across topsides, subsea, wells, and third-party interfaces.

You will lead technical assurance activities, manage interfaces, and support procurement and contractor management through design reviews and risk assessments, through FEED and execution phases.

Qualifikationen

• 10+ years of experience in Oil & Gas, LNG, or CCS.
• Proven experience defining and managing complex system architectures.
• Strong background in process safety studies, including HAZOP and LOPA.
• Knowledge of CO2 transportation, processing, and storage systems.
• Solid understanding of ICSS architecture, safeguarding and integration across topsides, subsea and wells.
• Experience in requirements management, interface management, and verification across multi-contractor projects.
• Familiar with early-phase project development and FEED execution.

Aufgaben

• Lead systems engineering activities for the CCS/BCCS project, ensuring an integrated, operable end-to-end CO2 transport, injection, and storage system.
• Define and maintain system architecture, control philosophy, and ICSS integration across topsides, subsea, wells, and third-party interfaces.
• Ensure regulatory compliance, configuration control, and delivery assurance through design reviews and change management.
• Manage interfaces and stakeholder alignment, coordinating contractors, vendors, and operations teams to resolve cross-functional challenges.
• Support procurement and contractor management through technical scopes, bid evaluations, and vendor reviews.
• Drive technical assurance and risk management through HAZOP, LOPA, SIL, RAM, operability reviews and technology qualification.
• Oversee flow assurance and process engineering to ensure consistent design basis across the CCS value chain.
• Review and approve key technical documentation ensuring alignment with project requirements and regulatory obligations.

Kenntnisse

10+ years Oil & Gas/CCS

System architecture design

Process safety (HAZOP/LOPA)

ICSS knowledge

Requirements & interface management

FEED to execution experience

Jobbeschreibung

Role title: BCCS Senior Systems Engineer

Company: INPEX Australia

Location: Perth office with ad-hoc site visits

Contract duration: 12-months with possibility of extension

Working days/hours: Monday – Friday, 40-45 hours per week

Rate: $1080 - $1350 per day inc. super

Primary Objective

Reporting to the BCCS Engineering Lead, responsible for overseeing and driving the overall system engineering scope for the Bonaparte CCS (BCCS) project, ensuring the CCS system is defined, integrated, verified, and managed to meet HSE, technical integrity, quality, reliability, operability, cost, and schedule requirements. Accountable for system-wide engineering assurance activities, including HAZOP, LOPA, SIL, and operability reviews, while managing interface risks across contractor scopes. Also responsible for system-level requirements, control and impurity management philosophies, and verification strategies, ensuring alignment across process, control, instrumentation, subsea wells, facilities, and operational stakeholders throughout FEED and Execute phases.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Lead systems engineering activities for the CCS/BCCS project, ensuring an integrated, operable, and technically robust end-to-end CO? transport, injection, and storage system.
• Define and maintain overall system architecture, control philosophy, operational basis, performance requirements, and ICSS integration across topsides, subsea, wells, and third-party interfaces.
• Ensure technical integrity, regulatory compliance, configuration control, and delivery assurance through design reviews, technical governance, and management of change processes.
• Manage system interfaces and stakeholder alignment, coordinating contractors, vendors, emitters, operations teams, and external parties to resolve cross-functional challenges.
• Support procurement and contractor management through development of technical scopes, bid evaluations, vendor reviews, and package integration activities.
• Drive technical assurance and risk management through HAZOP, LOPA, SIL, RAM, operability reviews, technology qualification, and mitigation of system-level risks and gaps.
• Oversee flow assurance, process engineering, and CO? specification development to ensure consistent design basis and performance across the CCS value chain.
• Review and approve key technical documentation while ensuring project requirements, standards, and regulatory obligations are effectively cascaded into contractor and vendor deliverables.

Qualifications/Requirements

About the Role This is a Perth-based, Monday-Friday, 12-months contract position for an oil and gas operator. As the Senior Systems Engineer, you’ll lead systems engineering activities for a large-scale Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) development, ensuring the end-to-end system is safely integrated, technically robust, and aligned with project objectives. Responsible for system requirements, technical assurance, interface management, and risk mitigation across multiple disciplines and contractor scopes, while supporting project delivery from FEED through execution and commissioning.

Responsibilities

• Lead systems engineering activities for the project, ensuring an integrated, operable, and technically robust end-to-end CO? transport, injection, and storage system.
• Define and maintain overall system architecture, control philosophy, operational basis, performance requirements, and ICSS integration across topsides, subsea, wells, and third-party interfaces.
• Ensure technical integrity, regulatory compliance, configuration control, and delivery assurance through design reviews, technical governance, and management of change processes.
• Manage system interfaces and stakeholder alignment, coordinating contractors, vendors, emitters, operations teams, and external parties to resolve cross-functional challenges.
• Support procurement and contractor management through development of technical scopes, bid evaluations, vendor reviews, and package integration activities.
• Drive technical assurance and risk management through HAZOP, LOPA, SIL, RAM, operability reviews, technology qualification, and mitigation of system-level risks and gaps.
• Oversee flow assurance, process engineering, and CO? specification development to ensure consistent design basis and performance across the CCS value chain.
• Review and approve key technical documentation while ensuring project requirements, standards, and regulatory obligations are effectively cascaded into contractor and vendor deliverables.

Skills/Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in Oil & Gas, LNG, or Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS), with a strong foundation in process and systems engineering.
• Proven experience defining and managing complex system architectures, design bases, operating philosophies, and performance requirements.
• Strong background in process safety studies, including HAZID, HAZOP, and LOPA.
• Knowledge of CO? transportation, processing, and storage systems, or equivalent experience in complex gas, LNG, or subsea developments.
• Solid understanding of control and safety systems, including ICSS architecture, safeguarding, and integration of topsides, subsea, and well control systems.
• Experienced in requirements management, interface management, technical assurance, verification & validation, and configuration control across multi-contractor projects.
• Familiar with early-phase project development, including concept evaluation, option selection, decision analysis, and FEED execution.
• Demonstrated ability to manage interfaces and collaborate effectively with multiple stakeholders on large-scale integrated developments.

About Airswift

About Airswift Airswift is an international workforce solutions provider. With 1000 employees and 9,000 contractors operating in over 70 countries, Airswift's geographical reach, experience and expertise across the energy, mining, infrastructure and technology sectors is unparalleled.

Only candidates with full working rights in Australia will be considered (Australian Citizen, PR Holder, or Valid Australian working VISA)