Lubricants Operations Superintendent

Permanent full-time based in Lytton, QLD
- Competitive Salary and work with a supportive collaborative team
- Utilise your operations experience to ensure safe, reliable and efficient performance within our Lubricants Business.

**About Ampol**

We are proud of our heritage. We have been powering better journeys for all Australians for over 100 years. As Australia’s very own fuel brand we are committed to making those journeys easier by meeting Australia’s needs at every step with the care and service we all deserve. And, as we grow, we continue to evolve, to ensure we have low carbon solutions that will meet the needs of our customers well into the future.

We are proud to be an endorsed employer of choice for women by WORK180. To understand more about how Ampol’s policies, benefits and how we support our people, check out some key female leader career stories on the Work180 website.

**About the role**:
Reporting to the National Lubricants Supply Chain Manager, we have an exciting opportunity for an Operational Superintendent to join our Lubricants Production Team.

You will be responsible to lead and optimise the operations teams comprising of Production, Quality, Laboratory, Engineering & Maintenance teams with 5 direct reports. This role also has a national footprint in managing our bulk facilities based in Victoria and Western Australia.

You will play an important role in ensuring operational excellence and delivering incident free operations in a safe, secure, reliable and cost-effective manner.

**Key responsibilities;**
- Provide leadership and direction to ensure a safe, efficient, cost-effective operations, build organisation capability and positive culture.
- Ensure systems and procedures are well designed and implemented to achieve regulatory compliance and statutory governance requirements.
- Implement improvement strategies with a focus of asset and product integrity, systems, procedures and people to ensure reliable operations and supply chain performance.
- Work closely with suppliers and internal stakeholders to coordinate day to day activities, communicate, troubleshoot, management change or implement improvement initiatives.
- Manage risk profile of assets and monitor production and safety performance metrics.

**About you**:
You are a natural leader with proven experience in a similar role preferably within Supply Chain, Operations, Manufacturing/Maintenance and a sound knowledge of refinery/fuel and lubricants supply chains.

You will have a passion for safety, strong strategic planning and co-ordinating skills as well as the ability to make pragmatic, informed, risk-based decisions. In addition, you will possess a commitment to continuous improvement and the ability to develop good working relations with key stakeholders.

This role suits individuals who are adaptable with a strong work ethic, holding increased ownership and accountability for business outcomes in a position that directly influences direction of activities and decisions onsite.

**Skills and experience**:

- Minimum 5 years experience in a similar role
- Tertiary qualifications in business or technical field
- Knowledge of relevant industry engineering and safety standards
- Sound knowledge of Trades Practices ACT and Industrial relations regulations
- Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal)
- Strong people leadership skills
- Strong negotiation and influencing skills

**Our Benefits**
- **Our total remuneration is competitive. **This is across base salary, a performance incentive, employee share offers and a 25% discount on Fuel for two privately used cars
- **We are flexible**. Many of our teams have embraced hybrid work, balancing time spent remote working, with time spent at an office to connect and work together where it adds value.
- **Remote Working**: Support for up to 3 months remote international working (conditional to 5 days paid leave for every 30 days of remote work).
- **We value recognition.** We have an internal recognition platform amplifying the achievements of those who do great work and demonstrate our capabilities and values.
- **Career development and learning opportunities** including LinkedIn Learning and other tailored training solutions.
- **Paid Parental Leave**:

- **BabyCare Package**:

- financial and flexible support for parents transitioning back to work.
- **Need some wheels?** Novated Lease options are available.
- Invest in your future with the **Employee Share Scheme**:

- **Leave Options - **Up to 6 weeks annual leave and additional Wellbeing leave days.
- **Care for your Community. **Spend one paid day a year volunteering with one of our Ampol Foundation partners.
- Check out our benefits and policies on the Work180 website.