Area Maintenance Manager

As the Area Maintenance Manager you will join the Asset Maintenance team at an Oil Refinery in Geelong. There are 4 Assets and you will be responsible for 1 of them, this is built up of a number of complex process units. Your primary responsibility will be managing and challenging the maintenance scope/budget/resources and driving improvements in our maintenance efficiency.

• Contribute to Process and People Safety improvement program. This includes a systems approach to behavioural safety to achieve a reduction in TRIFR and improvement in our risk profile.
• Ensure all activities are conducted and managed in accordance with agreed HSSE practices and procedures as outlined in the Geelong Refinery Management System
• Be key in reviewing, simplifying and improving Maintenance processes and information management.
• Efficiently and safely maintain all assets on site to a high reliability standard following the Maintenance Execution process and deliver a pro-active program of work that reduces downtime, backlog and maintenance costs.
• Improve the Maintenance Execution process by eliminating sources of waste in support of operational excellence and improving the integration of all relevant resources.
• Contribute to improving the competitiveness of the Refinery by reducing uncontrolled downtime and maintenance costs
• Provide assurance that statutory and other legal obligations are being met.
• Champion including team and self-awareness, shared vision and values and understanding roles and accountabilities.
• Be a key contributor to Maintenance performance reporting.

• Engineering background with experience in heavy process industry (oil and gas, refining, petrochem, chemicals etc) or manufacturing.
• Technical knowledge of maintenance and projects requirements in a, high pressure and temperature, chemical processing facility
• Skills, knowledge and experience in contributing to and role modelling a complex change program
• Substantial experience in process and people safety
• Demonstrated ability to create and deploy engaging process mapping and policy and procedure documentation that enables ‘simple’ application and compliance
• Systems improvement to enable agile ways of working
• Advanced skills in performance reporting that enables past performance metrics to educate the team and be used for effective decision making in risk mitigation and business improvement
• Demonstrated ability to effectively utilise all available communication channels to ensure that the team is kept up to date and engaged
• Knowledge and experience in pro-actively managing constructive workplace relations.
• Experience working across areas to deliver operational excellence.
• Team work, unity, support and care are essential attributes of the Engineering team.
• Through challenge, care and honest feedback drive a high performance culture.
• Highly skilled in managing complex external and internal stakeholder relationships in a highly collaborative manner.
• Demonstrated ability to influence a continuous improvement mindset

• Permanent position
• $130k-$140k + 12% Super + STI
• Discount on Fuel
• Located in Geelong
• A great company to work with, enthusiastic team that genuinely want to make a difference
• Connected to great public transport links from Melbourne CBD