Quality Engineer

At APA, our purpose is to secure Australia’s energy future. We’re not doing it alone. We’re doing it with our customers and communities as Australia’s energy infrastructure partner, a role our unique experience and expertise positions us to play.

Reporting to the Quality Manager, we have a great opportunity for a Quality Engineer to join our Project Delivery team and play an important role in delivering high quality project outcomes. You’ll work closely with project teams and vendors to provide quality assurance and oversight, strengthen quality governance and drive continuous improvement. At the heart of the role is making sure our assets are delivered to specification, with a strong focus on getting things right the first time. This role can be based in Brisbane or Sydney.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with project teams to develop and implement Project Quality Plans, ensuring quality risks are identified and managed throughout delivery.
• Lead vendor quality activities across materials and equipment packages, including technical bid evaluations, quality document reviews, inspections and FATs.
• Coordinate suppliers, engineers, procurement teams and third-party inspectors to ensure quality requirements are understood and effectively delivered.
• Manage non-conformances, technical queries and corrective actions through to timely close-out, escalating significant risks where required.
• Review and approve vendor quality documentation, inspection records and MDRs to support compliant project handover.
• Use quality insights, trends and lessons learned to drive continuous improvement and reduce repeat issues across projects.

Your background

• A tertiary qualification in Engineering or a related discipline is desirable.
• Vendor and/or Project Quality experience within infrastructure, energy, utilities or other asset-intensive industries.
• Strong knowledge of project quality assurance, quality management systems, vendor quality and compliance requirements.
• Hands-on experience reviewing ITPs, quality documentation, inspection records and MDRs, and supporting supplier inspections and FATs.
• Proven ability to manage quality risks, non-conformances and corrective actions while balancing compliance and project outcomes.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to build effective relationships across project, engineering, procurement and supplier teams.
• A proactive, practical approach to problem-solving, continuous improvement and delivering quality outcomes.
• Familiarity with quality management systems, ISO 9001 principles and quality assurance processes within project environments would be advantageous.

At APA, we’re committed to fostering a safe and inclusive workplace where you can achieve your best. We offer targeted career development programs designed to accelerate your career, competitive remuneration, employee benefits, flexible working arrangements, and wellbeing initiatives are all part of what we’ll offer you. Our inclusive parental leave policy offers 18 weeks of leave, including superannuation, to support parents at work and in life.

We employ around 2,000 people across Australia and are committed to building a high-performing, customer-focused organisation where everyone feels safe, valued, and trusted to perform at their best.

APA is an equal opportunity employer. The safety, health and wellbeing of our people, community and environment is a priority. We embrace diversity in our people to ensure our workforce is representative of the communities that we operate in. Applicants must be eligible to work in Australia to be considered.