We keep millions of people moving every day and continue to be Australia's leading transport fuel supplier and convenience retailer. Our business is dynamic and often technical, and we rely on talented people who seek to find solutions. Whatever your journey, we're the fuel that gets you there. Ampol, Australia's own.

• Full time – Permanent role
• Career development opportunities within a broad and exciting business.
• Exposure to a variety of unique equipment, processes, and procedures.

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:

This position will be on a permanent basis at our Lytton Refinery in Brisbane, providing process safety engineering services and taking a lead role in driving improved process safety performance through facilitation of PHAs (HAZIDs, HAZOPs), LOPA, Bowtie, SFARP and risk assessments, Management of Change,,.leading process safety related incident investigations, reporting of process safety performance, communications, and engagement.

This critical role will liaise with multiple levels of stakeholders around the refinery to ensure most significant process safety risks are understood, propagated, and progressed with a variety of technical decisions to improve safe performance of the process area or processing units; this may include but not limited to operations, technical & engineering superintendents, process engineers, external process safety and risk consultants and refinery operators.

Key responsibilities.

• Facilitate Process Safety workshops such as PHAs (HAZIDs, HAZOPs), LOPA, Bowtie, SFARP demonstration.
• Identifies and implements continued process safety improvements to reduce the likelihood of a significant process safety incident.
• Facilitates risk assessment through approved risk processes including the refinery PRA process.
• Leads process safety incident investigations following recognised root cause analysis methodologies.
• Coordinates process safety studies such as consequence assessments including dispersion studies to improve understanding of risk.
• Develops appropriate action plans and communicates outcomes to stakeholders.
• Manages the studies actions tracking process and supports asset owners with progressing and validating action items.
• Maintains the Refinery Safety Case including the QRA and acts as a lead resource in periodically updating the Safety Case to support MHF licence renewal.
• Analyses process safety performance information to identify trends and opportunities to improve process safety performance.
• Maintains awareness of process safety industry trends, best practices, and applicable regulations
• Performs Safety Systems Inspections, Safeguard Field Checks, Critical Controls Verification and Loss Prevention Observations on a regular basis to verify controls, assess process effectiveness and identify gaps.

Skills and experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering / Chartered Professional Engineer
• Minimum 5 years total experience with at least 3 years’ of preferred experience in Oil Refining or Petrochemical Industries
• Knowledge of risk management, safety assessment (LOPA, Bowtie, SFAIRP), PSI, MoC and PSSR processes
• Strong teamwork facilitation, project management and communication skills
• Proven performance in hazard identification and assessment and knowledge of relevant engineering, process safety standards and regulations in Australia
• Desired knowledge of Refining Process Technology, utilities, and best practices.
• Desired training as HAZOP, LOPA, Bowtie & SFAIRP workshops leader. Preferred PHAST & Bowtie development softwares experience.

Some of 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 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. Ampol will fund the cost of professional memberships as part of your commitment to ongoing continuing professional development.
• Paid Parental Leave - up to 12 weeks paid Parental leave, and up to a year off (unpaid). In addition to the 12 months of unpaid parental leave, employees may apply for a further 12 months of unpaid parental leave (a total of 24 months for each birth)
• 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 - We offer wellbeing leave and leave purchasing
• Care for your Community. Spend one paid day a year volunteering with one of our Ampol Foundation partners.

We’re an equal opportunity workplace. We not only embrace diversity and inclusion; we celebrate what makes you unique. We welcome applications from people of all ages, cultural backgrounds, and diverse sexualities and genders (including if you identify as transgender). We also highly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply for roles with Ampol.