Strategic Short-Term Maintenance Scheduler (Oil & Gas)

Santos; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite Gym facilities

Onsite GP services

Employee benefits

Job summary

Santos in Brisbane is seeking a technical leader to deliver optimised short-term maintenance schedules for Varanus Island. Based from our Brisbane office, you will drive cost reductions and value creation through disciplined planning and continuous improvement.

You will collaborate with site and Brisbane teams to ensure material readiness, safety compliance and efficient execution of planned maintenance schedules and campaigns.

Qualifications

• Experience in short-term maintenance scheduling in an oil and gas or resources environment.
• Proficiency in SAP, SharePoint and Prometheus.
• Strong understanding of execution scheduling, resource levelling and maintenance compliance requirements.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and maintain schedule integrity under operational pressure.
• Effective communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively across site and Brisbane-based teams.
• Commitment to safety, continuous improvement and delivering efficient maintenance outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Develop, refine and accept execution schedules, ensuring all scheduled work is confirmed as planned and ready to execute.
• Ensure minimum planning standards are met before work is scheduled and that only planned and approved work orders are included in schedules.
• Confirm material readiness prior to scheduling, including bagging and tagging.
• Schedule work to the day, aligned with SWPP permit planning requirements.
• Optimise the two-weekly schedule for production utilisation and resource levelling.
• Ensure Safety Critical Maintenance, preventive maintenance and corrective maintenance compliance targets are met.
• Maintain ready and identifiable filler work to maximise tool time when scheduled work is delayed or unavailable.
• Lead fortnightly draft schedule review meetings and schedule close-out reviews.
• Participate in Gate 3 Execution Readiness Reviews and support campaign event close-out.
• Escalate Priority 1 and Priority 2 work orders that have exceeded their late-finish date.

Skills

Short-term maintenance scheduling

SAP

SharePoint

Prometheus

Prioritisation under pressure

Communication

Safety&compliance

Tools

SAP

SharePoint

Prometheus

Job description

Santos in Brisbane is seeking a technical leader to deliver optimised short-term maintenance schedules for Varanus Island. Based from our Brisbane office, you will drive cost reductions and value creation through disciplined planning and continuous improvement.

You will collaborate with site and Brisbane teams to ensure material readiness, safety compliance and efficient execution of planned maintenance schedules and campaigns.