NSW Maintenance Team Lead

• Location: Kurnell NSW
• Join the Maintenance Leadership Team & lead the Maintenance function
• Shape the future of our maintenance function within our Terminals and Pipelines infrastructure

About Ampol: 

Ampol has been proudly fuelling Australia since 1900, from humble beginnings, through 120 years of growth and change. We are the operational heart of the business, responsible for the refinement and distribution of petrol and petroleum products. Our operations span the country and working with us will provide you with the opportunity to meet a diverse team of experts who help make Ampol the energy supply chain leader it is today.  

This purpose reflects our commitment to delivering value for our customers and our people now, through safe, reliable, and competitive operations. As we look to the future, we will continue to innovate through new energy and fuel solutions to deliver on powering better journeys, today and tomorrow.  

About the role: 

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Maintenance Team Lead to champion the reliability and performance of our critical Terminals and Pipelines infrastructure.

In this pivotal role, you'll oversee preventive and corrective maintenance, manage budgets and contractors, and optimise spare parts inventory — all while ensuring safe, efficient operations. You'll be at the forefront of continuous improvement, safety leadership, and technical development for a high-performing maintenance team.

In addition, you’ll provide leadership and direction of two Maintenance Coordinators and coordinate technical upskilling within the team.

Key responsibilities: 

• Lead End-to-End Maintenance Operations: Manage preventive and corrective maintenance across NSW distribution sites, integrating work with project schedules to ensure safe, efficient execution.
• Oversee Financial and Contractor Performance: Manage OPEX budgets, cost optimisation, contractor reviews, and safety investigations, ensuring value and compliance.
• Drive KPIs and Continuous Improvement: Monitor maintenance performance metrics, lead dashboard reporting, and implement improvement initiatives.
• Optimise Inventory and Procurement: Coordinate spare parts strategy, approve high-value quotations, validate invoices, and ensure procurement alignment.
• Develop Team Capability: Lead technical training, succession planning, and act as a subject matter expert to support both team development and business goals.

About you:

You are a natural leader and passionate about asset reliability, thrive on collaboration, and have a keen eye for detail. Your dynamic leadership capability and ability to build internal and external key stakeholder relationships will help you thrive in this role.

You’ll have proven experience in Petroleum or Manufacturing industry, high level of problem solving and analytical skills. In addition, a depth understanding of maintenance systems and processes with the ability to implement high performance.

Key skills and experience: 

• Tertiary qualifications or trade certification in a heavy industry maintenance discipline
• Proficient in Computerised Maintenance Management Systems. SAP experience is desirable
• Experience in Petroleum or manufacturing industry across operations, maintenance, engineering or reliability
• OPEX budget planning and cost control experience
• Proven experience in change management initiates and contract management
• Familiar with process safety and integrity management
• Sound knowledge of risk management principles within Major Hazard Facilities

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.  
• Access to Ampol's Benefits & Recognition platform: providing you access to retail discounts and cashbacks at over 500+ retailers in Australia that assist with everyday living expenses.
• We are flexible.  Many of our teams have embraced hybrid work, balancing time spent remote working, with time spent at an office to connect and work together where it adds value.  
• 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.  
• 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. 

Want to take your career to the next level? Apply today. Applications close 24TH June  2025.