Facilities Lead - Decommissioning
Australia, Docklands
Fulltime: 40 hrs a week
Experience: 6-9 Years
Conventional Energy
Introduction
Join a team overseeing the safe retirement of offshore facilities - ensuring systems are shut down, structures prepared, and removal plans executed with technical integrity. You will support engineering reviews, facilitate contractor coordination, and help resolve brownfield‑related challenges. This is a high‑responsibility role offering exposure to end‑of‑life asset‑management and complex facility‑engineering tasks.
What are you going to do
- Review and approve discipline‑engineering work (internal or contractor/sub‑contractor) to ensure compliance with company standards, regulatory codes, safety, and project requirements.
- Provide technical leadership and oversight for facilities: including structural, piping, mechanical, process/integrity systems during shutdown, removal‑preparation, and asset‑retirement phases.
- Plan and manage maintenance, shut‑down, decontamination, and pre‑removal activities - including hydrocarbon removal, pipeline cleaning/disconnection, system isolation, hazardous‑material handling.
- Coordinate structural modification and lifting‑point installation to prepare topsides and jackets for heavy‑lift removal operations.
- Interface between project team, execution/field teams, contractors, and contractors for removal/recycling - ensuring clear communication, alignment, and timely resolution of issues.
- Lead and support resolution of brownfield / legacy‑asset issues - provide pragmatic, fit‑for‑purpose engineering solutions when unexpected technical, integrity or safety problems arise.
- Oversee documentation, technical records, integrity and safety compliance, change‑control, reviews and audit trail for engineering and decommissioning activities.
- Support project planning, scheduling, risk assessment, quality assurance, and liaise with project management to ensure deliverables, milestones, and safety/environmental regulations are met.
Essential skills and knowledge
- Extensive facilities experience who can assist in supporting the execution team
- Engineering degree (Mechanical / Civil / Chemical / related).
- Proven experience in facilities / structural / offshore / brownfield environments.
- Strong knowledge of engineering standards, safety and compliance.
- Good problem‑solving and practical "fit‑for‑purpose" mindset.
- Clear communicator; comfortable working with contractors and multidisciplinary teams.
- Detail‑oriented, organised and good at documentation or oversight work.
- Able to work under pressure, adapt to changing priorities and handle unexpected challenges.
What we offer
- Salary sacrificing
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Corporate discounts
About Brunel
Brunel is a recruitment and flexible workforce solution provider which connects talented people with opportunities throughout Australasia and around the world. We specialise in highly skilled roles across a variety of technical, professional, trades and craft disciplines, pairing candidates with industry-leading projects and organisations on a contract, permanent or secondment basis.
Operating in Australasia since 1997, Brunel has major bases of operation in Perth, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Port Moresby, which are further backed by the strength and reach of a truly global network spanning over 45 countries, 120 offices and 50 years of successful operation.
Brunel is proud to be equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and female candidates.
If you have any questions or would like to discuss the details of this role, please contact Rhitu Tripathi r.tripathi@brunel.net
