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SalaryA career with Viva Energy is more than just a job. It's an opportunity to be part of something bigger. To support the world's evolving energy needs by producing and supplying energy products that keep Australian's moving today as we help to build a sustainable future for tomorrow.
Will you be part of the energy solution?
About the role:
Exciting role to lead the Engineering Services Team to provide safe and efficient site services for all the mechanical execution on site. You will develop and support a high performing team, and collaborate with other teams in support of operational excellence.
In this role you will be Accountable for Contractor management and the Viva Trade team performance including:
- Lead the Process and People Safety improvement program. This includes a systems approach to behavioural safety to achieve a reduction in TRIFR and improvement in our risk profile.
- Ensure all activities are conducted and managed in accordance with agreed HSSE practices and procedures as outlined in the Geelong Refinery Management System
- Accountable for reviewing, simplifying and improving processes and information management.
- Efficiently and safely maintain stock and establish a program to minimise wastage associated with ordering, excess stock or hand, loss and damage.
- Improve the Maintenance Execution process by eliminating sources of waste in support of operational excellence and improving the integration of all relevant resources.
- Responsible for improving the competitiveness of the Refinery by reducing warehouse and contract labour costs.
- Direct Opex budget accountability A$15M, supports spend for a further $80M
- Shared responsibility for refinery hydrocarbon margin of $300 million per annum
- Safe and efficient Warehouse management including buying the bulk of the refineries supplies and consumables to the value of $26M.
- Leading the Engineering Service team in a manner that is consistent with the Viva Energy Values.
- Provide assurance that statutory and other legal obligations are being met.
- Drive the essential leadership cycle more broadly and deeply into the Maintenance organisation, including team and self-awareness, shared vision and values and understanding roles and accountabilities.
- Responsible for the attraction, development and retention of talent including general recruitment, on-boarding, technical and frontline leadership training, performance and talent management and managing the apprenticeship program.
- Ensure that we have a highly engaged Maintenance team by maintaining pro-active channels of team communication, achieving a high level of participation in the annual engagement survey, enabling collaborative engagement action planning, creating a culture of recognition and enabling team members to develop and progress.
- First point of contact for workplace relations matters and will play a lead role in the negotiation of enterprise agreements.
- Responsible for Maintenance performance reporting.
At Viva Energy we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you're excited about the opportunity but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we still encourage you to apply. Your skills and experience may just be the right match for this role or other opportunities!
About you:
To be successful in this role you will have the following skills and experience;
- Technical knowledge of maintenance and projects requirements in a, high pressure and temperature, chemical processing facility
- Experience managing a large team with high percentage of blue collar contractor team members
- Knowledge and experience in pro-actively managing constructive workplace relations with a strong working knowledge of Enterprise Agreements
- Knowledge and experience managing large contracts including market research, contract negotiation and contract management
- Substantial experience in process and people safety
- Demonstrated ability to create and deploy engaging process mapping and policy and procedure documentation that enables 'simple' application and compliance
- Systems improvement to enable agile ways of working
- Advanced skills in performance reporting that enables past performance metrics to educate the team and be used for effective decision making in risk mitigation and business improvement
- Demonstrated ability to effectively utilise all available communication channels to ensure that the team is kept up to date and engaged
- Experience in leading a professional team in all aspects of the team member lifecycle
- Part of the Engineering leadership team, supporting and working with other members of the leadership team to deliver operational excellence. Team work, unity, support and care are essential attributes of the Engineering leadership team
- Collaborative and active member of the Refinery Extended Leadership Team
- Through challenge, care and honest feedback drive a high performance culture
- Highly skilled in managing complex external and internal stakeholder relationships in a highly collaborative manner
- Demonstrated ability to influence and a continuous improvement mindset
- Challenging roles and meaningful work to help you grow your career
- A leading approach to flexible working.
- Access to a range of best in class wellness initiatives.
- Celebrate you with an extra day of leave for your birthday.
- Generous and flexible parental leave - accrue full time super until your child turns five.
- A competitive package including performance incentives
- 25% fuel discount
- We pay your permanent and total disability and death cover insurance.
At Viva Energy, our purpose is helping people reach their destination. We manufacture, import, blend and deliver energy products through our extensive supply chain network. We are the exclusive Shell licensee in Australia, and supply around a quarter of Australia's fuel through our network of around 1345 service stations and through our commercial partnerships with some of Australia's biggest companies.
It's an exciting time to join Viva Energy, as we play our role in providing safe and reliable fuel supply today while preparing for the lower carbon energies of tomorrow. Our goal is to support the world's evolving energy needs and achieve net zero by 2050. Our future plans include a gas terminal and a solar energy farm, projects to support alternative energies such as renewables and hydrogen, and the development of strategic storage to improve fuel supply security.
Our Culture:
At Viva Energy we aspire to create a great place to work where everyone feels valued and has the opportunity to contribute to our success.
Achieving WGEA Employer of Choice accreditation and being certified as a Family Inclusive Workplace by Parents at Work in partnership with UNICEF Australia highlight that we are driven by our people.
We are open to flexibility options including part-time, job-share and flexibility in start and finish times. We are happy to explore what this could look like for you during the recruitment process.
We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply. Please let us know if you would like to be put in contact with a team member from our diversity pillars - Gender, First Nations Peoples, Pride, Culture, Families and Abilities - as you progress through the recruitment process.
