Process Safety Support Advisor

• Full time – Permanent role
• Brisbane Based at Lytton Refinery
• Career development opportunities within a broad and exciting business.

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.

For over 100 years we have supported Australians to travel far and wide, and we’ll be here for 100 more powering better journeys for today and tomorrow. Tomorrow comes with the need to navigate the energy transition, and by playing a key role in the broader decarbonisation of transport, we have defined an ambitious Decarbonisation strategy to reach net zero emissions on an absolute basis across our operations by 2040.

About the role:

We are looking for a Process Safety Support Advisor to join our Process Safety team at the Lytton Refinery to provide support and maintain core process safety, quality and management of change processes managed by the process safety team. 

This role provides support to develop and deliver process improvement initiatives particularly in Refinery’s Safety Assessment process and management of change and it is a great opportunity for fresh graduate or a young professional who want to develop their skills in the engineering space.

Key responsibilities: 

• Support with the Safety Assessment processes including Bowtie, LOPA and SFARP workshops
• Managing Plant Risk Assessments and maintaining currency of registers.
• Develop improvement initiatives to facilitate appropriate review and adequate management of change (MOC) and Document Management System (DMS)
• Support development and implementation of Process Safety improvements initiatives
• Carry out basic incident investigations and support execution of internal and external desktop and field-based audits
• Communicate changes by updating hard copy documents, performing QA checks, updating reviewer / approver roles and document attachments in the Database
• Preparation of weekly actions reports and communications for Lytton Technical & Engineering teams.
• Reporting and preparation of deliverables to support rollout of improvement initiatives
• Engage with stakeholders to share information and gain understanding of operational performance

Key Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering
• Experience or interest in process design, process safety and risk mitigation with exposure to Oil Refining or Petrochemical Industries
• Experience in preparing reports and status updates for technical or engineering teams
• Understanding of Process Safety & Risk Management principles, including Management of Change (MOC) processes
• Ability to communicate changes clearly and effectively, both in hard copy documentation and within databases
• Experience with database management systems and document control software with proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel and Word, for reporting and document preparation

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 peoples to apply for roles with Ampol.