In this role you will report to the Asset Manager and play a crucial role in optimising our manufacturing processes, ensuring safe and productive operations, and maintaining high-quality standards.

Safety Leadership:

- Actively encourage and promote a culture where HSSE is the number one priority for employees and contractors
- Ensure that operational and asset risks are appropriately assessed.
- Ensure critical safety processes and protocols are applied, including permitting, isolations, management of change, safety critical overrides etc.
- Provide assurance associated with critical safety processes and procedures.
- Ensure compliance with quality control standards and process safety regulations.

Operations:

- Create, maintain and ensure accessibility and training of unambiguous procedures for start-up, normal operation, abnormal situations and emergencies.
- Create, maintain and ensure completion of operator checklists.
- Review alarm rates regularly and identify bad actors that require remediation. Coordinate resolution with support from Process Engineers and Maintenance teams.
- Maintain oversight of process chemical stocks and consumption, ensuring availability when required.

Asset Management:

- Plan and execute all operational activities that support broader asset management strategies – i.e. maintenance,



projects and turnaround events.
- This includes scope development, shut-down of operating units, hydrocarbon freeing, chemical cleaning and decontamination, isolations, control of safe work and commissioning and plant start up.
- Maintain HSSE critical equipment list for area of responsibility.
- Ensure integrity operating windows are defined for all static and rotating equipment, with support from Integrity and Reliability teams.
- Prepare and assist with plant changes under management of change procedures, and/or project activity.

Collaboration and Problem Solving:

- Coordinate and collaborate with teams across the refinery to address challenges and implement improvements, including operations, maintenance, engineering, technology and supply chain teams.
- Apply technical skills to troubleshoot operational problems and investigate process plant incidents.
- Identify and develop opportunities to improve process plant and resolve production issues.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve organisational effectiveness and enhance team engagement.
- Train and mentor production team members on best practices and new technologies.

This is a day-shift role (Monday to Friday) on site, with expectation of 7am starts.

📌 Production Specialist - Refinery operations (Warrnambool)
🏢 Viva Energy
📍 Warrnambool