Lubricants Business Improvement Lead

Permanent full-time role, based in Lytton, Brisbane
- Career development opportunities with a broad and exciting business
- Bring your business improvement expertise

**About Ampol**

Our company has always been about more than fuel. Fuel may be the foundation of our business, but our motivation and purpose come from the people, businesses, industries and communities we engage with. From our origins until today, we’ve always been inspired by the role we can play in people’s lives - to keep them moving, to make journeys happen.

Here at Ampol, we are proud of our heritage as Australia’s only owned fuel brand.

For over 100 years we have supported Australians to travel far and wide, and we’ll be here for 100 more powering better journeys for 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. Check out one of our key leader's career stories, supported by Ampol. 7 Leadership tips for women in male-dominated fields - WORK180

**About the role**:
Reporting to the National Lubricants Supply Chain Manager, the Business Improvement Lead is primarily responsible for providing expertise in improvement methodologies across the Lubricants Value pool to deliver business benefits. This role will empower, lead, coach and a support to projects, training and BI process governance.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Ensure Operational Excellent (Safety, Health, Risk, Environment, Quality and community change) requirements are implemented effectively
- Challenge stakeholders to maximise opportunities from process improvement initiatives.
- Develop and improve BI training materials and library of business improvement tools and templates
- Utilise well-structured tools and methodologies (Lean, Agile, Six Sigma, Project Management) to prioritise, manage and deliver improvement projects.
- Document and monitor business processes, business standards, metrics and standing operating procedures.
- Ensure adherence to the recognised change management process throughout the delivery of projects
- Effectively manage relationships with stakeholders to build ownership and buy-in of improvement projects by encouraging and ensuring agile ceremonies are understood and taking place.
- Facilitate collaboration between Manufacturing teams in the delivery of improvement initiatives.

**About you**:
You are an open-minded change professional with demonstrated planning and coordinating skills, and well-developed organisational skills with the capacity to be flexible in balancing priorities to meet the needs of the business. You bring a personal commitment to ongoing learning and development and continuous improvement. Your excellent influencing and communication skills combined with your understanding of an operations environment enable you to thrive and drive positive business outcomes. Key stakeholders will be varied across our internal and external operations, and we are looking for someone who can foster relationships and put improvement truly at the heart of what we do.

**Key skills and experience**:

- Demonstrated experience in Project Management
- Stakeholder engagement and influencing within an operational environment
- Deep understanding of Lean Six sigma/Agile methodologies
- Strong interpersonal and influencing skills
- Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal)
- Innovative thinking and problem-solving skills
- Experience in business planning, strategy deployment and business improvement governance are desirable.

**Our benefits**:

- Competitive Salary and performance bonus
- Career development and learning opportunities including LinkedIn Learning and other tailored training solutions
- Internal recognition platform amplifying the achievements of those who do great work and demonstrate our capabilities and values.
- 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
- Fuel up on us - receive a 25% fuel discount all year round for two privately used cars
- Invest in your future with the Employee Share Scheme
- Community giving day - spend one day volunteering with one of our partners
- Ampol Limited Benefits | WORK180 Endorsed Employer
- At Ampol we encourage vaccination against Covid-19 as an effective measure in helping to protect our people and our communities._