Turnaround Lead

**About Ampol**:
Ampol supplies fuel to approximately 80,000 business customers in diverse markets across the Australian economy, including defence, mining, transport, marine, agriculture, aviation, and other commercial sectors. Our retail network also serves approximately three million customers every week with fuel and convenience products.

We now also have the goal of becoming the supplier of choice with alternative energy solutions to power better journeys including the development of electric vehicles and other non-traditional transport fuels present an opportunity for Ampol to decarbonise the transport market and leverage our existing position into clean charging infrastructure.

Energy Transition and Decarbonisation is one of Ampol’s four strategic pillars, a key priority area that will help ensure we deliver on our purpose to ‘power better journeys today and tomorrow’.

We are proud to be recognised as an employer of choice for women by WORK180 and are winners of an Employer Brand award through LinkedIn. To understand more about how Ampol supports its people, check out some key female leader career stories on the Work180 website.

**About the role**:
We now have an exciting opportunity for a Turnaround Lead to join us at the Lytton Refinery, QLD, in a permanent full-time capacity. You will oversee the planning and execution of the Turnaround program, and directly manage the execution of single events as required.

You will be able to create an impact by owning the long-range Turnaround Strategy, delivering the optimal balance of production targets, execution risk and capital allocations through the equipment life cycle, while complying with the Turnaround Management System (TMS) and being focused on industry bench marking.

You will require a continuous improvement mindset to strengthen current systems and processes, as well as build on our strong delivery culture.

This is a leadership role with direct reports at Superintendent level, together with indirect reports and influence across the business.

The role is onsite at Ampol’s Refinery, Lytton QLD and we are open to considering applicants requiring relocation assistance.

Key responsibilities:

- Take an active role in leadership field visits and toolbox talks to connect with the frontline workforce across the site.
- Manage the Turnaround Program and long-range strategy.
- Direct the planning and execution of plant turnarounds.
- Directly manage execution of Turnaround evets as required.
- Own and ensure conformance with the turnaround management system.
- Provide monthly reporting to Manufacturing Leadership Team.
- Coach and mentor direct and indirect reports and work with them to remove obstacles to providing effective services.
- Effectively communicate Turnaround Management System requirements cross functionally and ensure overall event outcomes by influencing others and providing risk escalations as required.
- Hold a role on the Manufacturing Emergency Management Team

**About you**:
You are a relationship builder who can communicate effectively and bring people on the journey to achieve overall team outcomes for the success of the project activities required.

To be successful in this leadership position you will have an engineering degree or equivalent in a related discipline or 10+ years of experience in execution roles in Turnaround/Shutdown, developing processes, procedures and systems.

Ideally you will have Refinery experience and also be Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland (RPEQ) or be eligible to become Chartered.

Key skills and experience:

- Proven people management experience (including supervision and guidance of contractors)
- Strong project management experience and success with execution/ delivery
- Demonstrated cross functional approach to ensure best practice outcome
- Strong achievement focus - high energy levels and commitment to results
- Experience in the management of maintenance, conversant in machinery design, condition monitoring, equipment failure investigation and analysis
- Ability to plan and manage long term capital budgeting
- Experience aligning to organisational strategy and executing localised strategies and plans, translating these into shorter term strategies and work activities

**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 developme