Reliability Team Lead

**Company Description**:
**Do amazing work**

A career with Viva Energy is more than just a job. It’s a chance to join a group of people dedicated to supporting Australia’s evolving energy and convenience needs. We’re a leading retail, industrial and energy business, and we’ve been helping Australians reach their destination for more than 120 years.

Our plans for the future support Australia’s energy transition to sustainable, lower carbon energy solutions. And our recent acquisitions of Coles Express and OTR, we provide Australians with outstanding convenience.

At the heart of our plans is people power. People who want to grow and evolve with us. People with new perspectives, energy and passion to drive Viva Energy and their careers forward.

Viva Energy’s Geelong Refinery employs around 700 people and supplies over 50 percent of Victoria’s and 10 percent of Australia’s fuel.

The refinery can process up to 120,000 barrels of oil per day, manufacturing petrol, diesel, LPG, jet fuel, avgas, bitumen, specialty solvents for a wide range of industries. We now have a great opportunity for a **Reliability Team Lead **to join the team to ensure the safe and reliable operation of the refinery.

This role ensures coordination for essential engineering support to frontline staff maintaining the plant and responding to day-to-day equipment failures. Including:

- Development of major equipment overhaul scopes.
- Development and implementation of tracking and assurance activities to ensure effectiveness of tactical strategies.
- Reliability improvement of rotating and other mechanically driven equipment and electrical assets.
- Delivery of technical support, including vendor liaison, to minimise the impact of equipment downtime.
- Liaise with key Operations stakeholders to provide Engineering support to mitigate risks to the delivery of the business plan.
- Ensure asset-related failures are investigated and learnings shared and implemented.

**Qualifications**:
You are a Subject Matter Expert for instrument and electrical assets, particularly their reliability, maintenance, and troubleshooting. You also:

- Am an effective leader of teams, possessing effective communication and coordination skills with the ability to lead, coach and mentor.
- Possess excellent stakeholder management skills (both internal and external).
- Have demonstrated experience working within a heavy production or manufacturing environment (oil & gas, mining or manufacturing).
- Hold detailed experience with electrical equipment in hazardous areas (EEHA).
- Distributed control systems experience (Yokogawa) is desirable.
- Able to work autonomously and effectively prioritise and manage your time to meet your commitments and hold yourself accountable for the outcomes.

**Additional Information**:
**About Viva Energy**

Join a team that values diversity. Viva Energy is a great place to be yourself. We believe in our people, trust in their positive intentions, and empower everyone to amplify their voice across the business. We value inclusion because that’s how we get the best outcomes.

Awarded the WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality for the past five years highlights that we are driven by our people and continuing our focus on making Viva Energy reflect the ever-changing face of Australia.

We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and encourage and support diversity in our traditional and non-traditional roles.

At Viva Energy Australia, we believe flexibility is the new normal. We are open to flexibility options including hybrid, part-time, job-share and flexibility in start and finish times. We are happy to explore what this could look like for you during the recruitment process.

Applications close Thursday, 7 November 2024