Lubricants Process Chemist

Company description:

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.

Job description:

• Based at our Ampol Terminal in Brisbane
• Full time opportunity
• Join a collaborative and engaging team.

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.

As we revitalise the Ampol brand, we are committed to evolving our lubricants offering to support the changing needs of our customers. We've found our perfect fit in ExxonMobil and have entered a marketing alliance to blend, distribute and market Mobil™ lubricants to our customers across Australia.

Our alliance brings together Mobil's world-class products and lubricant technology with Ampol's commitment to delivering the very best solutions to customers for Australia's unique conditions. Our extensive national distribution network, supply chain expertise, along with our local production and import capabilities supports the delivery of Mobil lubricants to customers across the country.

About the role:

Reporting to the Laboratory Team Leader, the Lubricants Process Chemist contributes as part of a team to complete the laboratory sampling and testing required for product certification, operation, and optimisation of our Lubricants product chain.

This position will be responsible for the effective, safe, and efficient operation the laboratory equipment, ensuring accurate, reliable, and expert information is provided to Ampol and customers to efficiently produce finished Lubricants to the required specifications.

Key responsibilities:

• Perform testing and calibrations as per the prescribed methods to meet product quality specifications and external audit requirements, in support of daily operations of Lubricants.
• Ensure testing and analysis of raw materials, finished oils, greases and specialty products are tested in a timely manner.
• Ensure incident free operations using the Loss Prevention System (LPS) thereby maximising the safety of the Laboratory and minimising environmental and quality incidents.
• Timely and accurate reporting of analytical results, while self-checking for integrity, to satisfy the demands of both internal and external customers while minimising laboratory errors.
• Provide technical advice to Blending, Filling and Warehouse Operators, liaise with Production to help overcome production related problems that may impact on product quality.
• Troubleshoot laboratory instruments and report instrument breakdowns promptly in order to maximise instrument availability.
• Contributes to an efficient, high performing laboratory team by identifying opportunities for improvement in laboratory processes and participating in internal audits, as well as correlation and proficiency studies.
• Assist in maintaining the Quality, Environmental and Technical systems, and standards.

About you:

You are a team player with a positive can-do attitude and have minimum 1-3 years' experience as a Chemist within Oil & Gas and/or manufacturing facility with preference or focus in lubricants. You have a strong focus on safety and can demonstrate strong technical and problem-solving skills.

Key skills and experience:

• Tertiary degree in science majoring in Chemistry
• Minimum 1-3 years' experience in a manufacturing environment with preference in lubricants
• Experience with utilizing laboratory equipment used for testing, troubleshooting and routine maintenance of equipment
• Ability to work as part of a team.
• Knowledge of relevant industry and safety standards and laboratory quality procedures
• Knowledge of NATA requirements
• Strong IT skills, and proficient in SAP

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. We also highly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander to apply for roles with Ampol.