Rotating Equipment Technical Officer

Rotating Equipment Technical Officer, Lytton QLD
- 5-10yrs mechanical trade with rotating equipment experience
- Experience in Oil Refining or Hazardous Manufacturing plant preferred

**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**:
As part of the Mechanical Engineering Team at Ampol’s Lytton Oil Refinery, the Rotating Equipment Technical Officer works closely with area engineers to provide engineering support to the mechanical coordinators, planners and work supervisors.

This includes liaising with Operations and Maintenance on priority reactive maintenance, responding to technical queries, supporting capital projects, reliability improvements as well as development of preventive and predictive maintenance strategies. The role reports into the Mechanical Engineering Superintendent.

Key responsibilities:

- Lead safety by setting and monitoring standards, continuously improve the Management of Work and ensure quality systems are adhered to
- Support the execution teams by providing technical guidance on required maintenance scope, liaising with operations and inspection groups as required and involvement in management of change
- Champion Reliability improvements through troubleshooting and identification of bad actor equipment
- Undertake the required analysis to identify root causes and develop solutions to eliminate defects and improve equipment reliability
- Work to support the implementation of solutions via maintenance, capital replacement and shutdown programs

**About you**:
We are ideally looking for someone with a Mechanical Engineering tertiary qualification or a Mechanical tradesperson with approx. 10 years of rotating equipment experience.

Experience in the engineering of an Oil Refining process plant is preferred, with either Industrial Manufacturing plant or Chemical Manufacturing plant also being highly regarded.

Key skills and experience:

- 5-10 years of experience in maintenance of rotational assets (pumps, turbines, fans, compressors) of an industrial facility with demonstrated technical ability
- Proven ability to respond to technical queries, conduct machinery troubleshooting and root cause analysis using industry practices.
- Ability to coordinate and engage with the wider organisation to promote the understanding of reliability concepts and objectives within a Major Hazard Facility
- Ability to work cross functionally with a broad range of personnel to collaborate, coach and drive change and problem solve
- Ability to hold self and others accountable to deliver clear and challenging objectives

**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.
- **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** - up to 12 weeks paid Parental leave, and up to a year off (unpaid)
- **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**:

- **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
- At Ampol we encourage vaccination against Covid-19 as an effective measure in helping to protect our people and our communities._

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