Lead Project Enablement Coach

The Opportunity

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.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Lead Project Enablement Coach to join our Energy Solutions team on a 2-year maximum term contract, supporting our exciting pipeline of growth projects.

Reporting to the Manager, Improvement & Performance, this role sits at the intersection of strategy and execution, working directly within cross-functional project teams to strengthen how outcomes are delivered.

This is a coaching-led role, focused on enabling sustained behavioural change rather than enforcing process. You will work alongside project leaders and teams to observe how work is actually delivered—identifying where behaviours, decision-making and ways of working are either enabling or constraining performance.

Through real-time insight and targeted coaching, you will help teams shift towards one-team, high-performance behaviours—improving clarity of decisions, reducing internal friction, and reinforcing a customer focus.

Success in this role is not measured by process adoption, but by more disciplined execution, better decisions, and stronger, more consistent delivery outcomes across our growth portfolio.

The role can be based in Brisbane or Perth, with flexible and hybrid working options available.

Key Responsibilities

• Embed within cross-functional project teams to observe behaviours, interactions and decision-making in real time.
• Diagnose where behaviours (e.g. siloed thinking, unclear accountability, reactive decision-making) are impacting delivery performance, and actively challenge behaviours that create internal friction, misalignment or inefficiency.
• Identify strengths and improvement opportunities across teams, focusing on practical, actionable change.
• Provide independent, evidence-based insight and constructive challenge to leaders and teams.
• Coach leaders and team members to build and sustain high-performance behaviours to move beyond siloed operating models towards integrated, outcome-focused delivery.
• Reinforce consistent ways of working that improve execution rhythm, alignment and predictability.
• Establish feedback loops to surface recurring behavioural and systemic themes across projects.
• Support the evolution and practical application of the Project Development Framework, ensuring it enables (not hinders) delivery.

Your background

• Relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent professional experience, with additional training, certifications or proven expertise in areas such as coaching, leadership, project delivery or continuous improvement highly desirable.
• Demonstrated experience in complex project, operational or transformation environments.
• Strong track record of coaching leaders and teams to improve performance and behaviours (not just implementing process).
• Proven ability to influence without authority and challenge constructively at all levels in a matrix environment with varying stakeholders.
• Experience improving execution discipline, decision-making quality and team alignment with advanced ability to translate observations into clear, practical insights and actions.
• Strong understanding of project or delivery lifecycles, with the ability to diagnose where things break down in practice.
• High emotional intelligence with the ability to build trust, observe objectively and intervene effectively.
• Strong commercial and customer mindset, with the ability to redirect teams towards value-based decisions.

About The Team

The Improvement & Performance team operates at the intersection of strategy, execution and performance, partnering across APA’s major development, commercial and customer-facing functions for improved business delivery outcomes.

The team plays a critical role in shaping and informing strategy through data-driven insights, while also working hands-on with teams to ensure that strategy translates into practical, consistent and high-quality execution.

With a strong focus on real-world outcomes, the team identifies performance drivers, removes friction, and embeds ways of working that enable better decision-making, stronger alignment and improved customer and commercial results across the organisation’s growth agenda.

Working at APA

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.

We are APA

At APA, we’re taking on one of Australia’s greatest challenges: the energy transition. We’re not doing it alone. We’re doing it as Australia’s energy infrastructure partner, a role our unique experience and expertise positions us to play.

We proudly own, operate and manage a diverse $20 billion portfolio of assets which deliver essential services to communities and customers across Australia. And we own more than 15,000 kilometres of gas pipelines which deliver energy to households and businesses across every corner of Australia.

As the partner of choice in delivering infrastructure solutions for the energy transition, we’re focused on bundled remote grid energy solutions, electricity and gas transmission, and future energy, including hydrogen and carbon capture and storage.

Our customer focused approach means we understand our customers and offer them reliable, innovative, and cost-effective energy solutions that support their decarbonisation ambitions.

We are committed to securing Australia’s energy future by delivering infrastructure solutions for Australia’s energy transition and supporting the decarbonisation ambitions of our customers and communities.

Join our team and be part of securing Australia’s energy future. We’d love to hear from you.

APA is an equal opportunity employer. The safety, health and wellbeing our people, community and environment 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.

This vacancy works with critical APA data, systems or infrastructure and candidates are subject to background vetting (including Police checks) before & during employment.

Role closes on Monday, 8 June 2026. Role Reference Number: JR4427

APA Group will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies.

We will contact successful candidates after the closing date.