Puma Energy Bitumen, have a great opportunity for a highly motivated and enthusiastic person to join the team at our Bitumen Terminal located at Townsville, Queensland. This role is an exciting combination of managing the complexities of a petroleum storage facility, with the dynamic nature of an operational manufacturing facility.
Key responsibilities include providing leadership to the Townsville terminal staff and contractors to ensure operations and maintenance are conducted safely and efficiently, whilst meeting statutory requirements and Puma Energy standards. This includes coordinating preventative maintenance work schedule, executing breakdown maintenance activities and cost control.
Key Responsibilities
- Responsible for the safe and efficient asset maintenance, including coordinating and supervising all maintenance activities
- Execute the preventative maintenance plan, major overhauls and projects
- Manage contractors including permit issuing
- Technical support and diagnosis of system faults and breakdowns to minimise downtime
- Conducts terminal and asset inspections
- Strong focus on HSE, reliability and quality
- Able and willing to assist operations and provide coverage to the Terminal Manager where required
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Our ideal candidate will be a strong team player with excellent communication skills, who is self-motivated and driven to make improvements. They will have a strong service focus, be able to manage difficult situations calmly, be flexible in working hours should there be breakdowns or unexpected events and possess the following qualifications/skills/experience:
- A minimum 5 years’ experience in a similar role preferably with Oil or manufacturing Industry exposure
- Experience working in mechanical or electrical maintenance planning and supervision
- Basic understanding of Trade Practices requirements
- Sound knowledge of relevant Australian Standards, industry safety standards; and engineering standards
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills for industrial systems, including hydraulic and pneumatic process plant equipment, electrical systems, PLC’s and instrumentation
- Experience using an asset maintenance system
- Exposure to project management
- Ability to lead and motivate people
- Effective organizational and planning capabilities
About Us:
We are Puma Energy Bitumen Australia, part of Puma Energy, a leading global energy business which supplies, stores and distributes petroleum products in 38 countries across six continents.
Puma Energy has a network of 63 storage terminals, more than 1,900 retail sites, and a presence at over 100 airports. Our mission is to energize communities to help drive growth and prosperity by sustainably serving our customers’ needs in high potential countries around the world.
Puma Energy is a subsidiary of the Trafigura Group - one of the world’s largest independent commodity traders. Our values of Work Hard, Work Together, Accountability and Integrity make up the Puma spirit, which is central to our success.
At Puma Energy Bitumen Australia we specialize in the development, production and supply of bituminous binders for the Australian road maintenance and construction industry. We work closely with our local and international customers to create products that perform under some of the most diverse and demanding road conditions. This is attributable to a combination of our unique product technology, comprehensive quality assurance programs, operations efficiency and sophisticated production processes, all supported by highly skilled and experienced staff.
Puma Energy is committed to safe workplaces and as such Drug, and Alcohol Testing forms part of the selection process. The successful applicant will be asked to provide verification of legal working rights in Australia.