Santos
Electrical Engineering Graduate Program (Feb 2026)
Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth
Opportunity details
- Graduate Job or Program
- AUD 90,000 - 105,000 / Year
- Employee Share Program, Flexible Work, Company Gym Access, Salary Packaging, Study Assistance
- 5-15 vacancies
- Apply by 27 Apr 2025
- Start date 21 Feb 2026 - 7 Mar 2026
About our Graduate Program
Our Graduate Program is your gateway to an exciting journey of professional growth and development with a dynamic organisation committed to growing future talent.
- Three year program
- Participate in two to three job rotations
- 1:1 technical mentoring
- Unique professional and technical training programs
Our diverse asset portfolio provides multiple opportunities across Adelaide
- Brisbane
- Adelaide
- Perth
- Operational sites across Australia
What you’ll bring:
We are keen to hear from people who:
- Represent and align with our company values
- Show a commitment to achieving commercial outcomes through technical excellence.
- Are willing to strive for excellence
- Consistently deliver high-quality results
- Are adaptable and flexible in your work location -demonstrating a readiness to embrace new challenges and opportunities.
- Show effective communication skills - helping you to collaborate seamlessly with diverse teams and stakeholders.
Eligibility
As a Electrical Engineering Graduate you will be eligible for both Facilities Engineering and Drilling & Completions Engineering Streams.
Facilities Engineering
- Responsible for delivering the molecules from the wellbore to plant gate in a safe, reliable and low-cost way.
- Includes roles in integrity, reliability, production, surveillance, process control, operations, process safety, operations technology and projects
Drilling & Completions Engineering
- Responsible for working with area asset team and preparing well designs, cost estimates and detailed operational guidelines for new and existing wellbores to meet project objectives.
- Support incident response, project management, project management, field supervision and cost/invoice review
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- Australian Citizen +more
- Engineering & Mathematics +more
- Bachelor or higher
Reviews
I'm happy with the business's management of my role. my minor dissatisfaction comes more from my feeling that i still need to improve my technical knowledge before i'm completely comfortable in my responsibilities. despite my role being technical, a majority of my work is operations focused with little opportunity to practice technical skills. i feel this will improve with experience and further training.
I am very satisfied with my work - i feel like it's interesting and challenging. sometimes i am given boring tedious work, but that is due to being a graduate.
I enjoy my work
About the employer
Santos
3.4
1,000 - 50,000 employees
Mining, Oil & Gas
As an ASX 20 global energy company, we’re committed to providing reliable and affordable energy to help create a better world for everyone.
Pros and cons of working at Santos
Pros
Benefits are great: flex Friday, gym, showers, and lockers. Opportunities for FIFO roles.
Being in the graduate program, having the opportunity to rotate through different job types/roles across the 3 years.
Community, good positive team, flexible but supportive leader.
As a graduate, we are given lots of responsibility. It can be more stressful at times, but also more rewarding.
Flex Friday, WFH, good salary at the graduate level, good colleagues.
Cons
Internally as a graduate, there are large pay discrepancies between graduate cohort years.
No clear roadmap for most graduates with their rotations.
Severe lack of technical training and heavy reliance on graduates 'learning on the job' with minimal guidance.
The Oil and Gas industry cops a lot of scrutiny, so seeing a long-term career in this industry can be difficult.
High turnover and slow hiring process, lead to workload pressure on existing employees.