Despatch Team Leader

Despatch Team Lead, Lytton Lubricants QLD, permanent position
- Experience in Hazardous Goods supply chain is essential
- Lead a group of 3, ensure the safety of our people and plant

**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**:
The Despatch Team Lead will oversee a team of 3 across all Lytton Lubricants Despatch and DRP processes and systems, ensuring the appropriate framework exists for tasks to be performed consistently, efficiently with the best commercial outcome.

Reporting to the National Warehouse and Logistics Manager, the Team Lead will provide leadership and direction to build organisational capability and a positive culture through effective recruitment and retention of employees, identification of required skills and competencies, setting priorities and performance targets, and appropriate training and development programs.

Key responsibilities include:

- In coordination with the National Warehouse and Distribution Manager, implement the inclusive cultural program throughout the despatch team, with a focus on leading by example and empowering team members
- Actively promote and steward the concepts, tools and behaviours of the Loss Prevention System (LPS) system, Incident & Injury Free (IIF) principles, and Safe System Inspections (SSI), and ultimately accountable for chain of Responsibility (CoR)
- Actively engaging in cross functional meetings with production, purchasing, planning and logistics to ensure performance metrics relating to operational performance and customer expectations are met
- Actively promote and execute continuous improvement initiatives across all despatch operations.

Based at the Lytton Lubricants Factory in Brisbane, this role is critical to ensuring the safety of people and reliability of plant on our site.

**About you**:
You’ll ideally have 3-5 years of relevant experience in supply chain within a High Consequence or Hazardous Goods manufacturing plant.

You will have a successful track record of people leadership together with the ability to communicate professional (verbal and written) with internal and external stakeholders. You will also be commercially minded and have a strong focus on safety and customer service.

The ability to demonstrate strong knowledge of SAP, dispatch functions and Microsoft Office will be highly regarded.

Key skills and experience:

- Planning of stock movements between sites
- People leadership with ability to provide motivation, clear direction, empower and delegate
- Proven ability to manage and motivate people and stakeholders
- Understanding of supply chain and manufacturing in a similar industry

**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
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