Terminal Manager Port Headland

• Located in Port Hedland, WA
• Permanent fulltime position with great benefits
• Operational leadership role where you can make an impact

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:

Reporting to the Regional Operations Manager, the Terminal Manager role will provide leadership and single point accountability for the Terminal Operation to deliver safe, reliable, and efficient operations and ensure safe management of products to meet customer needs.  You will play a key role in implementing and operating key systems, processes, and procedures.

This role is based at Port Hedland Terminal and looks after an onsite team of two operations coordinators, where you can bring your strong leadership experience to empower delivery of results from business plan objectives through a high performing team.

Key responsibilities

• Deliver incident free trucking loading operations and operational execution for the receipt, storage, and transfer of petroleum products.
• Ensure cost effective cost management, process optimisation and sound capital stewardship.
• Ensure asset reliability through an effective maintenance, testing and inspection program.
• Ensure employees and contractors apply safe systems, processes and procedures and ensure robust risk management is achieved through compliance and governance.
• Capability to manage emergency response situations.
• Apply systems, process and procedures that deliver operational efficiency that results in national consistency, standardisation, and no rework.

About you:

You are an operations professional with demonstrated success in running operations with a high achievement in health and safety targets. You bring a calm demeanour and able to stay cool in the face of difficult situations. Your commercial skills help you provide robust input into the investment and expense budgets and monitor operations to ensure costs and expenditure are minimised. You thrive as a people leader and bring proven experience in creating a highly motivated and effective and capable operations team through ongoing development and teamwork.

Key stakeholders will be varied across our internal and external operations and we are looking for someone who can foster relationships and put customer service truly at the heart of what we do.

Key skills and experience:

• Tertiary qualified in Engineering or a related discipline and significant industry experience in fuels or related field is desirable
• Demonstrated experience in the petroleum industry or major hazard environment.
• Knowledge of Relevant OHS laws, environment, trade practices law will be highly desired.
• Excellent communication and persuasive skills individually and within a team - verbal and written to both internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to lead and influence change and effectively collaborate with cross functional groups
• Strong focus on customer service
• Ability to focus and generate team commitment to achieving results
• Sound judgement to balance safe performance with sound cost management and customer service
• Strong organisational skills ability to prioritise and work in a changing environment with imposed deadlines in a cross functional environment.
• Champion and deliver continuous improvement initiatives.

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 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 08 June 2025